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Hee Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Hee Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$678k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$3.3MPhilanthropy$500kArts & Culture$468kRecreation & Sports$71kEnvironment$69kScience & Tech$15kCrime & Legal$10kYouth Development$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $158k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $475k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YALE UNIVERSITY$225,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$200,000
SUNDANCE INSTITUTE$50,000
THE VIRGINIA ATHLETICS FOUNDATION$33,000
BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC$25,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$25,000
THE PERFORMANCE ZONE AKA THE FIELD$25,000
YOUNG PEOPLES PERFORMING COMPANY$20,000
CALLISTO$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIATHE MCINTIRE FOUNDATION$10,000
JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$10,000
OPPORTUNITY MUSIC PROJECT NY$8,000
RANDALLS ISLAND PARK ALLIANCE NY$8,000
THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HARLEM$5,000
CAPE ELUTHERA FOUNDATION$5,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CAPE ELUTHERA FOUNDATION: $10k → 22%Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr Univ: $201k → 8%CALLISTO: $10k → 10%THE FIELD: $25k → 17%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%YALE UNIVERSITY: $430k → 12%YOUNG PEOPLES PERFORMING COMPANY: $20k → 11%SUNDANCE INSTITUTE: $50k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIATHE MCINTIRE FOUNDATION: $200k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $200k → 8%THE FIELD: $25k → 17%YALE UNIVERSITY: $430k → 12%YOUNG PEOPLES PERFORMING COMPANY: $20k → 11%SUNDANCE INSTITUTE: $50k → 8%THE MCINTIRE FOUNDATION: $200k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $150k → 8%THE FIELD: $25k → 17%YALE UNIVERSITY: $225k → 12%Young Peoples Performing Company: $20k → 11%THE MCINTIRE FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $150k → 8%THE FIELD: $15k → 17%YOUNG PEOPLES PERFORMING COMPANY: $20k → 11%THE MCINTIRE FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $100k → 8%The Brearley School: $102k → 17%YOUNG PEOPLES PERFORMING COMPANY: $15k → 11%THE MCINTIRE FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $100k → 8%THE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $100k → 17%YOUNG PEOPLES PERFORMING COMPANY: $15k → 11%THE VIRGINIA ATHLETICS FOUNDATION: $33k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $100k → 8%THE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $100k → 17%YOUNG PEOPLES PERFORMING COMPANY: $15k → 11%JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 17%THE VIRGINIA ATHLETICS FOUNDATION: $30k → 8%The Brearly School: $95k → 17%JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIATHE MCINTIRE FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%Ethical Culture Fieldston School: $200k → 17%BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 17%ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $200k → 17%BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 17%ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $140k → 17%BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
SD
PA
CT
CA
UT
VA
NC
DC
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 14 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
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Total granted

$3.4M
$5k

Still filing today

86%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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

  • EC
    ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL
    3× · 2018–2021 · $540k · revenue +29%
  • TB
    THE BREARLEY SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2025 · $401k · revenue +6%
  • TP
    THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $140k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $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
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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7
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
12
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jefferson Scholars Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Young Peoples Performing Company Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,001,113 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVE…ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $540,348 · EducationETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOLTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $400,708 · EducationTHE BREARLEY SCHOOLTHE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $210,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE FO…+3 more: $123,000 · Education+3 moreYALE UNIVERSITY: $1,085,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYTHE MCINTIRE FOUNDATION: $500,000 · OtherTHE MCINTIRE FOUNDATIONTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $140,000 · OtherTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC+5 more: $60,000 · OtherYOUNG PEOPLES PERFORMING COMPANY INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureSundance Institute: $100,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $8,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · InternationalCALLISTO: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$2,275,169Other$1,785,000Arts & Culture$328,000Environment$30,000Philanthropy$20,000International$15,000Crime & Legal$10,000

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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,001,113 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $540,348 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $400,708 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $210,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $140,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG PEOPLES PERFORMING COMPANY INC: $125,000 over 7y, 43% of budgetSundance Institute: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC: $63,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $39,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDURHAM ACADEMY INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCALLISTO: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Hee Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hee Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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