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Bossak-Heilbron Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Bossak-Heilbron Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$139k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$583kEducation$56kHealth$44kReligion$34kYouth Development$20kCivil Rights$20kCrime & Legal$18kFood & Nutrition$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$819k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JACOBS PILLOW$75,000
ONETABLE$11,000
UW MEDICINE$10,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$10,000
NAMI EAST SIDE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ACA KINGSWOOD CAMP SCHOLARSHIP$5,000
MONICA BILL BARNS & COMPANY$5,000
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE - INTERSHIP$5,000
BIKES TOGETHER$5,000
BRONX CHILDERN MUSEUM$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%JACOBS PILLOW: $250k → 12%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY(COLLEGE OF ARTS MEDIA AND DESIGN): $8k → 16%LAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $5k → 11%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF: $5k → 9%MONICA BILL BARNES: $7k → 17%MARK MORRIS DANCE: $5k → 20%BRONX CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $5k → 28%APPLESEED FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%WBCP(TTC PROJECT: $5k → 14%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $10k → 18%DENVER FOOD RESCUE: $5k → 12%ACA KINGSWOOD CAMP SCHOLARSHIP: $5k → 9%ARTIST TRUST: $5k → 9%NAMI: $5k → 7%CAMP KITA: $5k → 9%JACOBS PILLOW: $75k → 12%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $8k → 16%LAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $5k → 11%MONICA BILL BARNS & COMPANY: $5k → 17%BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $5k → 28%CASA OF TRAVIS COUNTY: $5k → 10%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $10k → 18%EKAR FARM: $5k → 12%ARTIST TRUST: $5k → 9%JACOBS PILLOW DANCE: $10k → 12%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $8k → 16%LAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $5k → 11%MONICA BILL BARNES AND CO: $5k → 17%BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $5k → 28%CASA OF TRAVIS COUNTY: $5k → 10%BIKES TOGETHER: $5k → 12%CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS (CO DANCE DEPARTMENT): $12k → 9%FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES: $5k → 16%LAFAYETTE COLLEGE - INTERSHIP: $5k → 11%MONICA BILL BARNES AND CO: $5k → 17%ACT FOR NIH FOUNDATION': $5k → 14%BIKES TOGETHER: $5k → 12%LAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $5k → 11%MONICA BILL BARNES AND CO: $5k → 17%PEACE PLAYERS INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 14%CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS (CO DANCE DEPARMENT): $6k → 9%UW MEDICINE: $10k → 9%ONETABLE: $11k → 17%UW MEDICINE: $10k → 9%SEATTLE PRINT ARTS: $6k → 9%THE ACTORS FUND (CO SUSAN LATHAM): $10k → 17%THE ACTOR'S FUND (CO SUSAN LATHAM): $10k → 17%GIBNEY DANCE(CO GINA GIBNEY): $6k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
DC
AL
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$634k · 23 repeat orgs$209k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
43

Total granted

$634k
$189k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+23%

Still filing today

57%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationRecreation & SportsInternationalCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • OI
    ONETABLE INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $24k · revenue +24%
  • BC
    BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
    6× · 2018–2025 · $23k · revenue +11%
  • PEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL
    4× · 2018–2022 · $20k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • CC
    CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS (CO DANCE DEPARTMENT)
    one grant, 2019 · $12k
  • NU
    NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY(COLLEGE OF ARTS MEDIA AND DESIGN)
    one grant, 2018 · $8k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $7k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
4
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
5
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
6
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
7
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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8
The National Bureau of Asian Research

Nbr conducts advanced independent research on strategic, political, economic, energy, globalization, and health issues affecting u.s. relations with asia. drawing upon an extensive network of the world's leading specialists and leveraging…

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9
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
12
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Facing History & Ourselves Inc; the most unlike its peers is Seattle Print Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 70 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
18/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $335,000 · Arts & CultureJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INCBRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $22,500 · Arts & CultureBRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUMGINA GIBNEY DANCE INC: $19,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $34,000 · Arts & Culture+6 moreMONICA BILL BARNES AND CO: $20,000 · OtherMONICA BILL BARNES AND COUW MEDICINE: $20,000 · OtherUW MEDICINETHE ACTOR'S FUND (CO SUSAN LATHAM): $20,000 · OtherTHE ACTOR'S FUND (CO SUSAN LATHAM)CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS (CO DANCE DEPARTMENT): $12,000 · Other+49 more: $242,500 · Other+49 moreLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $20,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationONETABLE INC: $24,000 · ReligionSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $20,000 · Crime & LegalPEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentNAMI Eastside: $10,000 · HealthNAMI National: $6,000 · HealthWASHINGTON BALTIMORE CENTER FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS INC: $2,500 · Health
Arts & Culture$410,500Other$314,500Education$35,000Religion$24,000Crime & Legal$20,000Youth Development$20,000Health$18,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $335,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetONETABLE INC: $24,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $22,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGINA GIBNEY DANCE INC: $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArtist Trust: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPark Hill Bike Depot dba Bikes Together: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNAMI Eastside: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNAMI National: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEN FAULKNER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEKAR: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetDENVER FOOD RESCUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SENTENCING PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KITA CENTERINC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetACT FOR NIH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF BAY AREA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDISCALCED INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON BALTIMORE CENTER FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds ONETABLE INC ↗
  • Who funds BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GINA GIBNEY DANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Artist Trust ↗
  • Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Park Hill Bike Depot dba Bikes Together ↗
  • Who funds NAMI Eastside ↗
  • Who funds Seattle Print Arts ↗
  • Who funds NAMI National ↗
  • Who funds PEN FAULKNER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EKAR ↗
  • Who funds DENVER FOOD RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
  • Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
  • Who funds MONICA BILL BARNES & COMPANY INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bossak-Heilbron Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bossak-Heilbron Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home