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Heffernan Group Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
246
Grants FY2024still arriving
26
States reached
$84k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Education$2.2MHuman Services$1.4MHousing & Shelter$968kEmployment$692kHealth$688kReligion$491kFood & Nutrition$414kYouth Development$353kOther$0
02FY2024 · 246 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k177 grants · $325k
  • $10k–50k66 grants · $849k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
$2,000
Median grant
26
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ICA SAN FRANCISCO WORK STUDY INC$84,000
LITTLE MIRACLES$66,000
CRISTO REY DE LA SALLE EAST BAY WORK STUDY PROGRAM INC$60,000
CRISTO REY SAN JOSE WORK STUDY CORPORATION$42,000
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES$25,000
FACE SF$25,000
SWORDS TO PLOWSHARES$25,000
ICA CRISTO REY ACADEMY$25,000
10000 DEGREES$20,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY$20,000
SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA$20,000
BELLARMINE COLLEGE PREPARATORY$17,000
DILLARD UNIVERSITY$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS$15,000
HAMPTON UNIVERSITY$15,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Phoenixville Area Community Service: $8k → 6%NEWS: $8k → 9%OUR VILLAGE CLOSET: $13k → 9%YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $10k → 14%WILLOWS WAY: $8k → 5%WellSpring Family Services: $8k → 9%Human Options: $8k → 10%Parents by Choice Inc: $8k → 12%LIFEVEST INSIDE: $10k → 20%WONDERFULLY MADE: $10k → 14%DAWN'S PLACE: $13k → 22%The Teen Project: $12k → 14%GERMANTOWN AVENUE CRISIS MINISTRY: $13k → 22%Harmony House: $8k → 15%Dawn's Place: $10k → 22%Bay Area Rescue Mission: $12k → 9%Dawn's Place: $8k → 22%HUMAN OPTIONS: $10k → 10%Sacramento Children's Home: $8k → 12%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $10k → 12%California Parenting Institute: $8k → 9%CALIFORNIA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: $50k → 9%Grateful Gatherings: $8k → 10%North Bay Children's Center: $10k → 8%North Bay Children's Center: $10k → 8%NORTH BAY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10k → 8%GRATEFUL GATHERINGS: $10k → 10%STORE TO DOOR: $13k → 12%Store to Door: $8k → 12%AT THE CROSSROADS: $50k → 10%Insight Housing: $8k → 10%YWCA GOLDEN GATE SILICON VALLEY: $13k → 8%Hunger at Home: $13k → 8%Hunger at Home: $8k → 8%CURRY SENIOR CENTER: $13k → 10%The Children's Collective: $8k → 14%WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $13k → 9%CONTRA COSTA FOSTER FRIENDS: $10k → 9%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $13k → 14%The Midnight Mission: $8k → 14%Sacred Heart Community Service: $8k → 8%St Vincent de Paul Society of Marin: $10k → 8%LITTLE MIRACLES: $66k → 10%Little Miracles Inc: $12k → 10%Little Miracles Inc: $10k → 10%UPLIFT FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 8%Uplift Family Services: $9k → 8%Catholic Charities of San Francisco: $11k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.5M · 350 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

350 repeat relationships: 110 still active in FY2024, 240 since wound down; 122 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

350
628

Total granted

$5.5M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+29%

Still filing today

70%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $590k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CR
    CRISTO REY SAN JOSE WORK STUDY CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $194k · revenue +7%
  • PO
    PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2021 · $154k · revenue +39%
  • LM
    Little Miracles Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $90k · revenue +149%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE AFFORDABILITY PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $510k · revenue +227% · 45% of their budget
  • I
    ICA
    one grant, 2019 · $68k
  • AT
    AT THE CROSSROADS
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -78%
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
Housing Choices Coalition for Persons With Developmental Disabilities Inc

To enhance the lives of people with developmental and other disabilities by creating quality, affordable housing options.

Housing & Shelter
2
Children's Council of San Francisco

By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…

Human Services
3
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services
4
Mercy House Living Centers

Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…

Housing & Shelter
5
Caminar

Caminar builds strength and stability through comprehensive mental health and substance use treatment delivered through evidence-based, whole-person care.

Health
6
Housing Works

Our mission is to create housing and service options that model, with respect and dignity, sustainable, environmentally sensitive, affordable communities for people of limited resources.

Housing & Shelter
7
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
8
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
9
The Health Trust

The mission is to build health equity in silicon valley.

Health
10
California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association

California casa was founded in 1987. its mission is to ensure that children and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems have both a voice and the services they need to thrive. we achieve this by strengthening and empowering…

Civil Rights
11
Kidworks Community Development Corp

Kidworks inspires purpose in youth, fuels their growth, and catalyzes their impact in the community and the world.

Human Services
12
Serra Residential Center Inc

To provide dignity, respect and choice for persons with developmental disabilities

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compass Family Services; the most unlike its peers is The Beecher's Foundation. 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

645 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. 645 of the 1,112 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
115
Early backer (in before they grew)
630/645
Grantees still filing
466/645
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ICA SAN FRANCISCO WORK STUDY INC: $365,000 · OtherICA SAN FRANCISCO WORK STUDY INCCristo Rey De La Salle East Bay Hig: $162,720 · OtherICA Cristo Rey Academy Work Study I: $144,000 · OtherCristo Rey De La Salle East Bay Wor: $113,720 · Other+112 more: $2,544,889 · Other+112 moreLittle Miracles Inc: $89,940 · Human ServicesLittle Miracles In…PACIFIC CLINICS: $67,965 · Human ServicesPACIFIC CLINICSLITTLE WISHES: $56,014 · Human ServicesLITTLE WISHESCALIFORNIA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $52,500 · Human ServicesAT THE CROSSROADS: $50,000 · Human ServicesNORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $35,000 · Human Services+39 more: $666,071 · Human Services+39 moreCRISTO REY SAN JOSE WORK STUDY CORPORATION: $194,250 · EducationCRISTO REY SAN J…PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $154,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD …10000 DEGREES: $80,500 · Education10000 DEGREESDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $74,000 · EducationDOMINICAN UNIVER…Spelman College: $60,000 · EducationSpelman CollegeCOLLEGE TRACK: $45,000 · EducationSACRED HEART NATIVITY SCHOOL: $44,500 · EducationSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $44,500 · EducationFACES SF: $36,000 · Education+12 more: $190,500 · Education+12 moreTHE AFFORDABILITY PROJECT: $510,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE AFFORD…HAMILTON FAMILIES: $39,000 · Housing & ShelterHAMILTON F…SHELTER PARTNERSHIP INC: $30,729 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $19,750 · Housing & ShelterSOCIUS FOUNDATION: $158,000 · PhilanthropyINSURANCE INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $12,000 · PhilanthropyKIND LIKE JOEY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyBUCKELEW PROGRAMS: $42,000 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $36,561 · HealthSide By Side: $25,583 · HealthChild & Family Center: $22,500 · HealthHAVENHOUSE ST LOUIS: $19,000 · HealthCollective Impact: $43,850 · Youth DevelopmentSPREAD THE WORD NEVADA: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentRoss Valley Children For Change: $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $14,750 · Youth DevelopmentRANCHO CIELO INC: $14,000 · Youth Development
Other$3,330,329Human Services$1,017,490Education$923,250Housing & Shelter$599,479Philanthropy$180,000Health$145,644Youth Development$110,600

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE AFFORDABILITY PROJECT: $510,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetCRISTO REY SAN JOSE WORK STUDY CORPORATION: $194,250 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSOCIUS FOUNDATION: $158,000 over 4y, 58% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $154,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Miracles Inc: $89,940 over 3y, 14% of budget10000 DEGREES: $80,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $74,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC CLINICS: $67,965 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPATRA PUBLIC CHARITY: $66,500 over 6y, 24% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $66,125 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCRISTO REY DE LA SALLE EAST BAY WORK STUDY PROGRAM: $60,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetLITTLE WISHES: $56,014 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetSTAND FOR FAMILIES FREE OF VIOLENCE: $50,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAT THE CROSSROADS: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCANAL ALLIANCE: $45,205 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSACRED HEART NATIVITY SCHOOL: $44,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $44,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCollective Impact: $43,850 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBUCKELEW PROGRAMS: $42,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRUBICON PROGRAMS INC: $40,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSING INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $39,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHAMILTON FAMILIES: $39,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $36,561 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFACES SF: $36,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHEALTHRIGHT 360: $33,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Options Inc: $32,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN CHURCH HOMES: $32,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $31,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSHELTER PARTNERSHIP INC: $30,729 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDAWN'S PLACE: $30,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSTORE TO DOOR: $30,350 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetDILLARD UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE PONY EXPRESS: $26,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE SERVICES: $26,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSide By Side: $25,583 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGRATEFUL GATHERINGS: $25,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMENTOR ME: $25,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $24,750 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLoaves and Fishes of Contra Costa: $24,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBAY AREA RESCUE MISSION: $24,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY BRIDGES INC: $24,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKOINONIA FOSTER HOMES INC: $23,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE: $23,500 over 4y, 0.1% 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 THE AFFORDABILITY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds CRISTO REY SAN JOSE WORK STUDY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SOCIUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Little Miracles Inc ↗
  • Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
  • Who funds DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC CLINICS ↗
  • Who funds PATRA PUBLIC CHARITY ↗
  • Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Spelman College ↗
  • Who funds CRISTO REY DE LA SALLE EAST BAY WORK STUDY PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE WISHES ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds STAND FOR FAMILIES FREE OF VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds AT THE CROSSROADS ↗
  • Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART NATIVITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds Collective Impact ↗
  • Who funds BUCKELEW PROGRAMS ↗
  • Who funds RUBICON PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation 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.

Tipping Point Communi…San Jose Mercury News…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Bothin FoundationThe William G Irwin C…United Way of the Bay…McNabb FoundationLeonard & Beryl Buck …Sutter Bay HospitalsLowell Berry Foundati…Sisters of St Joseph …Dean and Margaret Les…
Tipping Point CommunityCA62.4× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tipping Point Community · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Bothin Foundation · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · McNabb Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · Lowell Berry Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Dean and Margaret Lesher 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 Heffernan Group Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Heffernan Group Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Albertina Kerr Centers: 74% of income from government
  • Human Solutions Inc Dba Our Just Future: 17% of income from government
  • Ywca of Greater Portland: 15% of income from government
  • Impact Nw: 8% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Friendly House Inc: 3% of income from government
  • William Temple House: 0% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
81report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Heffernan Group Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Heffernan Group Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 1112 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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