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Hecht Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3k
Granted FY2022
3
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Recreation & Sports$48kPhilanthropy$12kHealth$11kCrime & Legal$8kCommunity Improvement$5kEducation$4kHousing & Shelter$3kReligion$1kOther$0
02FY2022 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200
Median grant
1
States reached
$73k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRW DONOR SERVICES$3,000
CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NC$200
HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHARLOTTE$200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NC MED ASSIST: $1k → 10%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Hecht Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 86%.

Hecht Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$47k · 4 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
17

Total granted

$47k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-98%
+64%

Still filing today

25%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • DD
    DENVER DAYS INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue -98% · 72% of their budget
  • TD
    TRW DONOR SERVICES
    4× · 2017–2022 · $12k
  • DL
    DENVER LAKE NORMAN ROTARY FD
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5k

Funded once

  • TE
    THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +79%
  • GN
    GOOD NEWS JAIL & PRISON MINISTRY
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
  • DL
    DENVER LAKE NORMAN ROTARY FOUNDATIO
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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.

04Its 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
North Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Inc

To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.

Health
2
Spay Neuter Charlotte

The organization stands for every pet and pet owner by making the highest quality veterinary care and spay neuter services affordable and accessible, with the goal of reducing the number of dogs and cats euthanized in regional shelters and…

Animals
3
Wnc Health Network Inc

WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.

Health
4
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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5
First Choice Community Health Ctrs

Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.

Health
6
Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Education and Research Foundation
Health
7
North Carolina Association of Pharmacists

The north carolina association of pharmacists primary purpose is to unite, serve, and advance the profession of pharmacy for the benefit of society in north carolina.

Community Improvement
8
Carolina Health Centers Inc

Carolina health centers offers primary care and patient support services to improve health, well-being and quality of life throughout the communities we serve.

Health
9
MemoryCare Inc

MemoryCares mission is three-fold: to provide specialized medical care to older adults with cognitive impairment; to support caregivers with education, counseling, and improved access to services; and to provide community education.

Health
10
Housing Collaborative

Housing Collaborative makes affordable housing easier to navigate by helping to secure rental housing for those experiencing or at risk of homelessness; and for those who have lost housing due to disaster or displacement. We make it easier…

Housing & Shelter
11
Lake Norman Humane Inc

To rescue, rehabilitate and rehome homeless pets

Animals
12
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc; the most unlike its peers is Denver Days Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 23 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRW DONOR SERVICES: $11,500 · OtherTRW DONOR SERVICESTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $11,500 · OtherTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCGOOD NEWS JAIL & PRISON MINISTRY: $7,000 · OtherGOOD NEWS JAIL & PRISON MINISTRYDENVER LAKE NORMAN ROTARY FOUNDATIO: $5,000 · OtherDENVER LAKE NORMAN ROTARY FOUNDATIOLCCACA: $5,000 · OtherLCCACADENVER LAKE NORMAN ROTARY FD: $5,000 · OtherDENVER LAKE NORMAN ROTARY FDLINCOLN CHARTER SCHOOL-GROW YOUR GA: $5,000 · OtherLINCOLN CHARTER SCHOOL-GROW YOUR GALINCOLNTONLINCOLN COUNTY: $2,500 · Other+8 more: $3,750 · Other+8 moreDENVER DAYS INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER DAYS INCHEARTS AND HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · HealthPREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC: $1,000 · HealthThe Joe Martin ALS Foundation: $500 · HealthMedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassist: $1,000 · Human ServicesChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc: $200 · Human ServicesHumane Society of Charlotte Inc: $200 · Animals
Other$56,250Arts & Culture$30,000Health$4,500Human Services$1,200Animals$200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDENVER DAYS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 72% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $11,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTS AND HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassist: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Joe Martin ALS Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Charlotte Inc: $200 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.

  • Who funds DENVER DAYS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTS AND HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassist ↗
  • Who funds PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds The Joe Martin ALS Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
  • Who funds Humane Society of Charlotte Inc ↗

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.

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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 Hecht Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hecht Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 23 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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