Minnesota · Private foundation
Heilicher Foundation
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.
- $454k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $22,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $195,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Heilicher Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $259k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $259k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $219k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $208k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $178k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $144k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $139k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $147k | 8% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harold and Mickey Smith Jewish Academy | $624,176 | 8 | 2% |
| Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest | $150,000 | 9 | 18% |
| Minnesota Hillel | $85,600 | 9 | 1% |
| Jewfolk Media Inc | $85,000 | 9 | 4% |
| The Institute for Holocaust | $20,000 | 2 | 43% |
| Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Herzl Camp Foundation | $18,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Moishe House | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Wilshire Boulevard Temple | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yourjewish | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harold and Mickey Smith Jewish Academy | $624,176 | 8 | 2% |
| Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest | $150,000 | 9 | 18% |
| Minnesota Hillel | $85,600 | 9 | 1% |
| Jewfolk Media Inc | $85,000 | 9 | 4% |
| The Institute for Holocaust | $20,000 | 2 | 43% |
| Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Herzl Camp Foundation | $18,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Moishe House | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Wilshire Boulevard Temple | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yourjewish | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Herzl Camp Association Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($654k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Heilicher Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Tankenoff Families Foundation · Mike & Linda Fiterman Family Foundation · Baratz Family Foundation Inc · Marshall & Elaine Siegel Foundation · The Beverly Foundation · The Z S & M Wilf Foundation Inc · The Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Minnesota · American Endowment Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About Heilicher Foundation
- How much does Heilicher Foundation give?
- Heilicher Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $453,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Heilicher Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (48%), Education (23%), Religion (13%).
- Who are Heilicher Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Harold and Mickey Smith Jewish Academy ($624k), Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest ($150k), Minnesota Hillel ($86k).
- Does Heilicher Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Heilicher Foundation 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 Heilicher Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Tankenoff Families Foundation.
- Where is Heilicher Foundation based?
- Heilicher Foundation is based in MN.
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