Hein Legacy Foundation
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About Hein Legacy Foundation
The Hein Legacy Foundation focuses on supporting community-strengthening organizations in and around Cle Elum/Upper Kittitas County, providing unrestricted/general operating support to locally rooted groups. Its giving is highly concentrated and place-based, backing a small number of recipients that deliver civic services and community development. The foundation appears focused on pragmatic, neighborhood-level impact rather than national or issue-specific grants.
Focus Areas
Local community development and neighborhood improvement in Upper Kittitas CountyGeneral operating support for small, place-based nonprofitsCivic and service-club activities in Cle Elum/Upper Kittitas (e.g., Rotary-led projects)Community facilities and grassroots community-building initiatives
Who They Fund
individual students/scholarship recipientsnonprofit organizations (general operating beneficiaries)
Giving Approach
Concentrated, few large grants (only three grants totaling $141,100), with repeat support to a primary local grantee; emphasis on unrestricted/general support rather than project-specific funding.
About Hein Legacy Foundation
Hein Legacy Foundation’s clearest pattern is a place-based mix of general operating support and scholarships for Upper Kittitas County, with grants reaching community groups, schools, service clubs, and individual students. The foundation’s active programs include general grants for projects in Upper Kittitas County and the Rudy and Patti Hein Memorial Scholarship, and its recent awards show both streams in practice. The largest recent grant went to the Upper Kittitas County Rotary Club for general support, while recurring support for Community Builders shows a continuing relationship with a local nonprofit. The foundation also funds public-facing community anchors such as the Cle Elum-Roslyn School District and the Friends of Roslyn Library. Across the recent list, the grants are often unrestricted or listed as general support, suggesting a flexible approach to local organizations rather than tightly restricted project-only awards. Individual scholarship support also appears alongside nonprofit grants, including awards to students in the region. The overall pattern points to a foundation that supports civic life, education, and neighborhood-level infrastructure in and around Cle Elum and the Upper Kittitas area.
What Hein Legacy Foundation Funds
Education appears in both institutional and individual form. The foundation gave $15,000 to Cle Elum-Roslyn School District for general support, and it also made educational scholarship awards such as $2,139 to Austin Pearson and $2,000 to Loreydey Santiago. Community infrastructure is another recurring theme. It provided $10,000 to Ukc Community Recreation Center Alliance for general support and $10,000 to Friends of Roslyn Library for general support, both tied to local gathering and service spaces. Youth and family-oriented services also show up in the grant list: Boys and Girls Club of Columbia Basin received $15,000 for general support, and Hopesource received $9,500 in 2024 and $7,000 in 2025, both for general support. These awards align with the foundation’s stated emphasis on education, youth, families, and community enrichment.
How Hein Legacy Foundation Gives
Typical grants are small: the reported p25, median, and p75 are $1,000, $1,000, and $2,512. That distribution fits a program with many modest awards and a few larger exceptions. The recent list also shows repeat support across years, including Community Builders, Washington Outdoor School, Hopesource, and Cle Elum Fraternal Order of the Eagles, which suggests recurring relationships rather than one-off gifts only. The foundation appears to operate as a family foundation with unrestricted and general operating support as a dominant approach. It also funds individuals through educational scholarships. Its community grant program accepts unsolicited requests.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$128K
Total Assets
$2.8M
Total Revenue
$427K
Total Expenses
$202K
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $1K and $3K, with a median of $1K.
25th Percentile
$1K
Median
$1K
75th Percentile
$3K
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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