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Heather Foundation Inc (A Non-Profit Corporation) at a glance

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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
6
States reached
$277k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead

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.

01What it funds
01FY2017 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k24 grants · $25k
  • $250k+1 grant · $277k
$680
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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 NESIYA INSTITUTE$2,000
PARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES$2,000
THE MUSIC CENTER$2,000
WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL$1,300
BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART$1,000
WEST END SYNAGOGUE$1,000
FILM SOCIETY LICOLN CENTER$1,000
GIRLS INC OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA$680
AVI SCHAEFER FUND$600
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES$500
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%KESHET ISRAEL CONGREGATION: $3k → 16%LELAND STANFORD JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $100 → 8%THE MUSIC CENTER: $2k → 14%CONGREGATION BNAI B'RITH: $3k → 14%THE WHITNEY MUSEUM: $225 → 17%WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 14%CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $100 → 8%BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $1k → 19%THE MYELIN PROJECT: $200 → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA: $2k → 14%THE NESIYA INSTITUTE: $2k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $500 → 14%GIRLS INC OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA: $680 → 14%PARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES: $2k → 17%THE WOMENS GUILD: $100 → 14%ROUNDABOUT THEATRE GROUP: $300 → 17%FILM SOCIETY LICOLN CENTER: $1k → 17%WEST END SYNAGOGUE: $1k → 17%FRIENDS OF KOL HANESHAMA INC: $3k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $300 → 17%MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $360 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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,…

Arts & Culture
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
The Contemporary Jewish Museum

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.

Arts & Culture
4
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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.…

Arts & Culture
5
Philadelphia Museum of Art

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…

Arts & Culture
6
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
7
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
8
Museum of the City of New York

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
10
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
11
Mint Museum of Art Inc

The mint museum welcomes all to be inspired and transformed through the power of art and creativity.

Arts & Culture
12
Smithsonian Institution

*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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Modern Art; 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.
03the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $276,726 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDCONGREGATION BNAI BRITH: $3,300 · OtherFRIENDS OF KOL HANESHAMA INC: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,700 · OtherTHE NESIYA INSTITUTE: $2,000 · OtherTHE MUSIC CENTER: $2,000 · OtherWEST END SYNAGOGUE: $1,000 · OtherFILM SOCIETY LICOLN CENTER: $1,000 · OtherGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA: $680 · OtherAVI SCHAEFER FUND: $600 · Other+6 more: $1,300 · OtherPARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC: $2,000 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $1,300 · InternationalJ STREET: $250 · InternationalJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA: $2,000 · PhilanthropyBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $1,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art: $360 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $300 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $225 · Arts & CultureCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $100 · Health
Community Improvement$276,726Other$17,580International$3,550Philanthropy$2,000Arts & Culture$1,885Health$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $276,726 over 1y, 0.0% of 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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA: $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
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.

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 FundAmerican Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Heather Foundation Inc (A Non-Profit Corporation) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Heather Foundation Inc (A Non-Profit Corporation). Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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