California · Private foundation
Clarence E Heller Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2024
- 60
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $800,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 46 to 62
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $72M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Clarence E Heller Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $798k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 40 | $1.8M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 60 | $2.7M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 62 | $2.6M | 48% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $2.2M | 53% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $2.0M | 96% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $1.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inside Climate News Inc | $450,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Friends of the Earth | $415,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Carbon Cycle Institute | $375,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc | $350,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Kitchen Table Advisors | $350,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Community Alliance With Family Farmers | $320,000 | 5 | 3% |
| As You Sow | $300,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability | $300,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Movement Strategy Center | $245,000 | 4 | 0% |
| InterMusic SF | $225,000 | 5 | 7% |
Show all 105 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 78 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Clarence E Heller Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 102 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Clif Family Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · The California Endowment · The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Patagoniaorg · Colburn Foundation · Tomkat Ranch Educational Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Clarence E Heller Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About Clarence E Heller Charitable Foundation
- How much does Clarence E Heller Charitable Foundation give?
- Clarence E Heller Charitable Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $2,626,900 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 62 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Clarence E Heller Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (20%), Arts & Culture (16%), Philanthropy (13%).
- Who are Clarence E Heller Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Inside Climate News Inc ($450k), Friends of the Earth ($415k), Carbon Cycle Institute ($375k).
- Does Clarence E Heller Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Clarence E Heller Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Clarence E Heller Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.
- Where is Clarence E Heller Charitable Foundation based?
- Clarence E Heller Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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