· Private foundation
C J Heilig Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k5 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $306k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $340k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMHERST COLLEGE | $200,000 |
| ALL SOULS COMMUNITY CHURC | $90,000 |
| MHVS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE FENIMORE FARM AND COUNTRY VILLA | $30,000 |
| THE FENIMORE ART MUSEUM | $30,000 |
| SUSQUEHANNA SPCA | $28,000 |
| JOHNSON PARK CENTER | $25,000 |
| CLINTON CUDAS SWIM TEAM | $25,000 |
| THE FUND FOR JOHN HOPKINS-NEUROLOGY | $25,000 |
| THE FUND FOR JOHN HOPKINS-UROLOGY | $25,000 |
| GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PATHFINDER VILLAGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PARKS | $25,000 |
| COOPERSTOWN FOOD PANTRY | $15,000 |
| WILLIAMSON COUNTY CASA | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–26, $158k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
50 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2026, 31 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ACAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES10× · 2017–2026 · $1.5M · revenue +141%
- FAFENIMORE ART MUSEUM10× · 2017–2026 · $355k · revenue +193%
- SSSUSQUEHANNA SPCA INC6× · 2021–2026 · $173k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- 5P53 PIONEER ST - ORGANIZATION TO BE NAMED LATERone grant, 2021 · $40k
- CFCOOPERSTOWN FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCEone grant, 2023 · $36k
- TCTHE COOPERSTOWN ONEONTA AND OTSEGO COUNTY FILM PARTNERSHIPone grant, 2021 · $30k
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.
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.
Provide humane care for unwanted or abused animals.
To coordinate actions for protecting and restoring the health of owasco lake and its watershed to ensure that owasco lake will serve as a source of public drinking water, a recreational asset, an economic driver, and an important natural…
A public library with locations in catskill and palenville, new york providing reference materials and various on-line services.
Compassionately advocate for a more humane community for animals and people.
The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.
Forum for community concerns
OCCA is dedicated to promoting the enjoyment and sustainable use of Otsego County's natural resources through education, advocacy, resource management, research, planning and practice.
Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties
The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
Operation pets provides high quality, high volume, affordable spay and neuter services to the underserved population of western new york including outreach to local animal welfare groups.
The mission of the orange county land trust is to preserve water resources, critical habitat, rural and urban farmland, scenic viewsheds and ecosystems in and around orange county for the benefit of all who depend on them.
The Gardiner Library Board of Trustees operates the public library that serves the Town of Gardiner and the surrounding areas of New York State.
How this is measured
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 80 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds FENIMORE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE FARMERS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Bassett Inc ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDER VILLAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDER VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Grace Cottage Foundation ↗
- Who funds OTSEGO LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds COOPERSTOWN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PARKS ↗
- Who funds THE AFGHAN STRAY ANIMAL LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds COOPERSTOWN FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds MISSION HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES FOR OTSEGO 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.
Open a dossier: Allstadt Hardin Foundation · The Nycm Foundation · The Scriven Foundation · The James and Stephanie Patrick Fam · The Patricia M & H William Smith Jr Foundation · Community Foundation of Otsego County Inc · Alice Busch Gronewaldt Foundation Inc · Thomas Frank Mullet Foundation · Willies Family Foundation · Robert and Marjorie Alpern Foundation · The Tianaderrah Foundation (NY) · 8187770 the Eggleston Foundation Co Levene Gouldin & Thompson LLP
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization C J Heilig Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from C J Heilig Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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