· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $132k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $320k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION | $195,000 |
| SMITH JEWISH ACADEMY | $125,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| TALMUD TORAH | $25,000 |
| JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $22,000 |
| MINNESOTA HILLEL | $20,000 |
| JEWFOLK MEDIA INC | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +95% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HAHAROLD AND MICKEY SMITH JEWISH ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $624k · revenue +169%
- JHJEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE UPPER MIDWEST9× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +34%
- MHMINNESOTA HILLEL9× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- WBWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLEone grant, 2018 · $10k
- YYOURJEWISHone grant, 2024 · $10k
- HCHERZL CAMP ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +23%
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.
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.
Hillel at Miami University, the center of Jewish life on campus, seeks to engage, connect, and empower students to explore their Jewish identity creating a vibrant Jewish community and inspiring the next generation of Jewish leaders.
The mission of Iowa Hillel is to enhance the lives of Jewish students at the University of Iowa, so they may enrich the Jewish people and the world. Iowa Hillel envisions a world for our students where they find a community here at Iowa…
The mission of the organization is to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds HAROLD AND MICKEY SMITH JEWISH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE UPPER MIDWEST ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HILLEL ↗
- Who funds JEWFOLK MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds The Institute for Holocaust ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA AND THE DAKOTAS ↗
- Who funds HERZL CAMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HERZL CAMP ASSOCIATION 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Heilicher Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Heilicher Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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