· Private foundation
Heather Foundation Inc (A Non-Profit Corporation)
Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
92% of Heather Foundation Inc (A Non-Profit Corporation)’s FY2017 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2017 names 13 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k24 grants · $25k
- $250k+1 grant · $277k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $276,726 |
| CONGREGATION BNAI B'RITH | $3,300 |
| FRIENDS OF KOL HANESHAMA INC | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,700 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA | $2,000 |
| THE MUSIC CENTER | $2,000 |
| THE NESIYA INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| PARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES | $2,000 |
| WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL | $1,300 |
| WEST END SYNAGOGUE | $1,000 |
| FILM SOCIETY LICOLN CENTER | $1,000 |
| BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART | $1,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA | $680 |
| AVI SCHAEFER FUND | $600 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The contemporary jewish museum (the cjm) makes the diversity of the jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first-century audience through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)
The mint museum welcomes all to be inspired and transformed through the power of art and creativity.
*increase and diffusion of knowledge* is the mission set forth by james smithson. the smithsonian endeavors to shape the future by preserving our heritage, discovering new knowledge, and sharing our resources with the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Modern Art and the most unlike its peers is The Myelin Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KOL HANESHAMA INC ↗
- Who funds PARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds J STREET ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds THE MYELIN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Heather Foundation Inc (A Non-Profit Corporation) funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.