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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.

$302k
Granted FY2017
25
Grants FY2017
23
Organizations funded FY2017
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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.

Median grant, FY2017
$680
Largest grant, FY2017
$276,726
States reached, FY2017
6
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Congregation Bnai Brith$3,3001n/a
Friends of Kol Haneshama Inc$3,00011%
Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies North America Inc$2,00010%
Women for Women International$1,30010%
Baltimore Museum of Art$1,00010%
West End Synagogue$1,0001n/a
Girls Incorporated of Greater Santa Barbara$68010%
Museum of Modern Art$36010%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$30010%
J Street$25010%
Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Heather Foundation Inc (A Non-Profit Corporation) by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Congregation Bnai Brith$3,3001n/a
Friends of Kol Haneshama Inc$3,00011%
Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies North America Inc$2,00010%
Women for Women International$1,30010%
Baltimore Museum of Art$1,00010%
West End Synagogue$1,0001n/a
Girls Incorporated of Greater Santa Barbara$68010%
Museum of Modern Art$36010%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$30010%
J Street$25010%
Whitney Museum of American Art$22510%
The Myelin Project$2001n/a
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$10010%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Heather Foundation Inc (A Non-Profit Corporation) supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of Kol Haneshama Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPardes Institute of Jewish Studies North America Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWomen for Women International: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaltimore Museum of Art: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Greater Santa Barbara: $680 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJ Street: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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 FundNY12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · 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.

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About Heather Foundation Inc (A Non-Profit Corporation)

How much does Heather Foundation Inc (A Non-Profit Corporation) give?
Heather Foundation Inc (A Non-Profit Corporation) reported 25 grants totaling $301,841 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Heather Foundation Inc (A Non-Profit Corporation) fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Philanthropy (93%), Religion (2%), Arts & Culture (2%).
Who are Heather Foundation Inc (A Non-Profit Corporation)'s largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: Congregation Bnai Brith ($3k), Friends of Kol Haneshama Inc ($3k), Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies North America Inc ($2k).
Does Heather Foundation Inc (A Non-Profit Corporation) accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Heather Foundation Inc (A Non-Profit Corporation)?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, American Endowment Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Heather Foundation Inc (A Non-Profit Corporation) based?
Heather Foundation Inc (A Non-Profit Corporation) is based in CA.

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 25 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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