· Private foundation
Clarence E Heller Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $620k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $800k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION | $800,000 |
| SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS INC AND CALIFORNIANS FOR PESTICIDE REF | $100,000 |
| KITCHEN TABLE ADVISORS | $75,000 |
| MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER | $75,000 |
| CARBON CYCLE INSTITUTE | $75,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHICO | $75,000 |
| AS YOU SOW | $75,000 |
| LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY | $75,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE EARTH | $75,000 |
| MANDELA PARTNERS | $75,000 |
| HARMONY PROJECT BAY AREA | $50,000 |
| JUSTICE OUTSIDE | $50,000 |
| WISHTOYO FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| INTERMUSIC SF | $50,000 |
| FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–22, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 14% of Clarence E Heller Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
64 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $380k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ICINSIDE CLIMATE NEWS INC3× · 2021–2023 · $450k · revenue +91%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE EARTH5× · 2020–2024 · $415k · revenue +71%
- CCCARBON CYCLE INSTITUTE5× · 2020–2024 · $375k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- SFSan Francisco Foundationone grant, 2018 · $250k
RITTER CENTERone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +8%- GAGlobal Alliance for the Future of Food (New Venture Fund)one grant, 2018 · $95k
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.
The mission of the California Youth Symphony (CYS) is to serve the community while providing talented young musicians with the finest musical experience and the opportunity for personal growth through the training and performance of…
Choral Music Performances: California Bach Society is a 30-voice chamber choir known for finely wrought interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music, often accompanied by leading period instrumentalists. Each season, the choir performs…
The mission of the San Jose Chamber Orchestra (SJCO) is to share exciting, though-provoking, and vibrant Music by contemporary and time-honored composers reflecting the cultural diversity of our everchanging community, and to support and…
The mission of the Fresno Philharmonic is to enrich the lives of Central San Joaquin Valley residents through inspiring performances of orchestral music. We are an essential and collaborative member of a vibrant arts scene which unites,…
Our mission at Californians for the Arts is to ensure that the arts are accessible to all Californians; are an ongoing part of the public dialogue and to encourage Californians to care about the arts as a critical component of their own…
SFP presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities.
The Culver City Symphony Orchestra strives to enlighten and inspire the diverse citizenry of Culver City and the Los Angeles area through the presentation of orchestral music concerts, to present works of American composers, and to…
The Living Earth Show's mission is to commission, collaborate, and amplify vital musical creators from a truly diverse range of communities - including crucial artists from those that are often marginalized and overlooked by traditional…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
Camerata Pacifica's mission is to affect positively how people experience live performances of classical music. The Organization will engage our audience intellectually and emotionally by presenting the finest performance of familiar and…
To seek and nurture exceptional young string musicians, foster and further their performance and professional skills development, and provide them with performance opportunities and monetary support.
How this is measured
108 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. 108 of the 187 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 THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds CARBON CYCLE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN TABLE ADVISORS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS ↗
- Who funds AS YOU SOW ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds InterMusic SF ↗
- Who funds FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Create CA ↗
- Who funds BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE OUTSIDE ↗
- Who funds Enriching Lives Through Music ↗
- Who funds Sustainable Conservation ↗
- Who funds BLACK FARMER FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Urban Tilth ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds Ecological Farming Association ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS ↗
- Who funds The Sierra Fund ↗
- Who funds YES Nature to Neighborhoods ↗
- Who funds New Century Chamber Orchestra ↗
- Who funds Harmony Project Bay Area Inc ↗
- Who funds Angelica Center for Arts and Music ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds EL SISTEMA USASALINAS INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds HUNTERS POINT BIOMONITORING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RITTER CENTER ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Clarence E Heller Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clarence E Heller Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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