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Heinz Family Foundation

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.

$4.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
98
Grants FY2024
87
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
61 to 113
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
15
Total assets, FY2024
$111M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Heinz Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving85$4.2M25%
FY202387$4.6M17%
FY2022106$5.6M29%
FY2021104$5.0M27%
FY2020113$5.7M35%
FY2019102$5.0M35%
FY201899$4.9M60%
FY201761$4.4Mn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$8.2MArts & Culture$7.1MHealth$4.7MEnvironment$4.4MInternational$3.3MRecreation & Sports$2.6MCommunity Improvement$1.8MPhilanthropy$1.8MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
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OR
IA
OH
PA
NJ
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Center for a New American Security Inc$1,405,00076%
Navy Seal Foundation Inc$1,140,00072%
Yale University$741,0005n/a
Yale University$646,0005n/a
Multiplying Good Inc$605,000310%
Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation Inc$603,00074%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$550,0003n/a
The Soarway Foundation$500,000786%
The Community Library Association Inc$485,00066%
Sun Valley Institute for Resilience$475,000615%
Show all 218 grantees
All grantees of Heinz Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Center for a New American Security Inc$1,405,00076%
Navy Seal Foundation Inc$1,140,00072%
Yale University$741,0005n/a
Yale University$646,0005n/a
Multiplying Good Inc$605,000310%
Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation Inc$603,00074%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$550,0003n/a
The Soarway Foundation$500,000786%
The Community Library Association Inc$485,00066%
Sun Valley Institute for Resilience$475,000615%
Phillips Exeter Academy$436,00080%
Foodcorps Inc$425,00051%
Seed Global Health$425,00082%
The Fred Rogers Company$425,00050%
Sun Valley Summer Symphony Inc$420,00082%
World Central Kitchen Inc$420,00060%
St Paul's School$385,00071%
Khan Academy Inc$350,00030%
United States Ski Association$330,00040%
Carnegie Institute$322,50080%
Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania$300,00031%
RepresentUs Education Fund$300,00062%
Sun Valley Community School Inc$293,00071%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$275,00080%
University of Pittsburgh$265,00030%
Simmons University$255,00070%
Giving Tuesday Inc$250,00017%
Earth Day Network Inc$250,00017%
The Barack Obama Foundation$250,00010%
Inaturalist$250,00015%
Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest$250,00029%
University of Illinois Foundation$250,00010%
The Aspen Institute Inc$250,00010%
Elevate Energy$250,00011%
Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc$250,00017%
The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc$250,00010%
WGBH Educational Foundation$250,00040%
Team Rubicon Inc$235,00040%
Yale University$234,0008n/a
Carnegie Mellon University$230,00080%
Rodale Institute$225,00061%
The Brookings Institution$200,00070%
National Links Trust$200,00042%
412 Food Rescue Inc$200,00021%
Sawtooth Sports Foundation Inc$197,500451%
Coalfield Development Corporation$185,00013%
Sun Valley Lacrosse Inc$175,000132%
International Wilderness Leadership Foundation Inc$175,00023%
National Dance Institute$170,00071%
Living With Wolves Ltd$163,00086%
National Academy of Social Insurance$162,00037%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$160,00070%
Silent Spring Institute Inc$152,50081%
National Forest Foundation$150,00030%
Denver Film Society$150,00012%
A Better Balance Inc$150,00014%
National Geographic Society$150,00020%
Ted Foundation Inc$150,00030%
The Discovery Land Company Foundation$127,50021%
Holt-Elwell Memorial Foundation Operating Camp Mowglis$126,50082%
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution$125,00040%
Roca Inc$125,00011%
Pittsburgh Symphony Inc$125,00010%
Eco-Soap Bank$120,00026%
National Gallery of Art$120,00080%
St Thomas Episcopal Church$110,0005n/a
Grist Magazine Inc$110,00031%
Sun Valley Writers' Conference Inc$102,00061%
Special Olympics Inc$100,00010%
Alaska Sustainable Fisheries Trust$100,00016%
Roman Catholic Diocese of Boise$100,0001n/a
Fund for the Endowment of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the Dept of State$100,00036%
For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)$100,00030%
Council on Foreign Relations Inc$95,00080%
Blaine County Hunger Coalition Inc$90,00051%
Mercury Soul Inc$85,000428%
Severn School Inc$85,00040%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$80,00070%
Idaho Conservation League Inc$80,00021%
The Brigid Alliance Inc$75,00030%
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc$75,00080%
St Luke's Wood River Foundation Inc$75,00031%
Storymakers NYC$72,50035%
Flourish Foundation Inc$65,00063%
Arts for the Aging Inc$65,00063%
Blaine County School District No 61 Education Foundation Inc$65,000121%
Thorn$60,00030%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$60,00060%
Russell Byers Charter School$60,00050%
Charity Global Inc$60,00040%
Unite for HER$55,00060%
Friends of the Pittsburgh Fisher House Inc$50,000122%
Help For Afghanistan$50,0001n/a
Rosie's Place Inc$50,00080%
Amigos of Costa Rica Inc$50,00011%
Ancient Dragon Zen Gate NFP$50,000119%
The Crisis Hotline Inc$50,000212%
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank$50,00020%
Threshold Dance Projects Inc$50,00076%
Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc$50,00012%
Hope Enterprise Corporation$50,00010%
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust$50,00010%
Bald Mountain Rescue Fund$50,000124%
Hurley Foundation$50,00012%
Cross Performance Inc$50,0001n/a
Friends of the High Line Inc$50,00010%
University of Minnesota Foundation$50,00010%
Mockingbird Ministries Inc$45,00042%
Rolling Harvest Food Rescue$45,00072%
American Academy of Arts & Sciences$42,50080%
Blaine County Seniors Council Inc the Senior Connection$40,00021%
College of Charleston Foundation$40,00020%
Last Chance Ranch Inc$40,00061%
Higher Ground USA Inc$40,00040%
Mongabay Org Corp$40,00010%
Rising Tide Capital Inc and Subsidiaries$40,00011%
Nonviolent Peaceforce$40,00013%
Andi Leadership Institute for Young Women$37,0003n/a
Equal Justice Initiative$35,00020%
East Side House Inc$35,00070%
SOMArts$30,00021%
The Character Lab Inc$30,00041%
Oweesta Corporation$30,00010%
Steel City Squash Inc$30,00021%
Sun Valley Center for the Arts Inc$30,00030%
Alumni Theater Company$25,00013%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$25,00010%
826 Valencia$25,00011%
Shady Lane$25,00011%
Intl Society for Childrens Health$25,000120%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$25,00010%
The Troy Andrews Foundation$25,0001n/a
The Sun Valley Ballet Foundation Inc$25,0001n/a
Idaho Rivers United$25,00015%
826 National Inc$25,00011%
Upmc$25,0001n/a
Milton Academy$25,00010%
San Francisco Parks Alliance$25,00030%
Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music$25,000113%
Teachers College Columbia University$25,00010%
The Amazon Biodiversity Center$25,00011%
Save The Children Federation Inc$25,00010%
Grounded Strategies$25,00013%
The Good Food Institute Inc$25,00020%
Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pa$25,00010%
BakerRipley$25,00010%
Planned Parenthood Keystone$25,00010%
Bayview Futures Fka Center for Youth Wellness$25,00010%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$25,0001n/a
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education$24,00010%
New York Restoration Project$24,00060%
Preachfor Foundation$21,50012%
Pure Game$21,00042%
Global Links$20,00020%
The Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis$20,00012%
Woodley House Inc$20,00080%
Lyric Opera of Chicago$20,00010%
Great Guana Cay Foundation Inc$20,0001n/a
Association for Rescue at Sea Inc$20,000213%
Nantucket Land & Water Council Inc$20,00021%
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations$20,00010%
Healthy Birth Day Inc$17,50031%
Fund for Parks and Recreation - Boston$15,50070%
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy$15,00010%
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation of Pittsburgh$15,00010%
Carversville Farm Foundation$15,00030%
Greater Pottstown Tennis & Learning Association$15,00023%
United Nations Foundation Inc$15,00010%
The Tenacity Project Inc$15,00012%
Aark Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Center Inc$15,00031%
Winchester Thurston School$15,00010%
Bucks County Foodshed Alliance Inc$15,0003n/a
Clear Thoughts Foundation$15,00017%
Lee Pesky Learning Center Inc$14,00030%
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc$13,50080%
Herring Gut Learning Center$10,0001n/a
Rock Creek Conservancy Inc$10,00011%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$10,00020%
Blaine County Charitable Fund Inc$10,00011%
River Valley Waldorf School$10,0002n/a
Harlem Children's Zone Inc$10,00020%
Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc$10,00010%
Unit Scholarship Fund Inc$10,00021%
Climate Ride Inc$10,00011%
The War Horse News Inc$10,00011%
Outdoor Afro$10,00011%
Saint Vincent College$10,00010%
Leila Janah Foundation$10,00012%
Advocates for Survivors of Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Inc$10,00030%
True Lacrosse Foundation$10,0001n/a
Ukraine House DC Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Bridge to the Mountains$10,00012%
The Loveland Foundation Inc$10,0001n/a
School of American Ballet Inc$10,00010%
Multiplier$9,50030%
Catholic Youth Association of Pittsburgh$8,00050%
Junior Achievement of Western Pennsylvania Inc$8,00010%
Nantucket Historical Association$7,00070%
All in All the Time$5,0001n/a
GO2 For Lung Cancer$5,00010%
Project Drawdown$5,00010%
International Documentary Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Worldwomenwork$5,00011%
The Algebra Project Inc$5,00010%
The Plantrician Project$5,00011%
Small Friends on Nantucket Inc$3,50070%
Energy Vision$3,00011%
Idaho Foodbank Warehouse$3,00010%
Youthbuild Global Inc$2,50010%
Tao Cares Relief Fund$2,50010%
USA for Unfpa Inc$2,00020%
Perkiomen Valley School District Foundation$2,0001n/a
Pine Manor College$2,00010%
Women Deliver Inc$2,00020%
Nantucket Sustainable Development Corporation$2,00020%
Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the D of C$1,5001n/a
Lung Cancer Alliance$1,00010%
Georgetown Heritage$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 72 recipients with no EIN on record ($14M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Heinz Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 196 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCenter for a New American Security Inc: $1,405,000 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetNavy Seal Foundation Inc: $1,140,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetMultiplying Good Inc: $605,000 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetSun Valley Ski Education Foundation Inc: $603,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetThe Soarway Foundation: $500,000 over 7y, 86% of budgetThe Community Library Association Inc: $485,000 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetSun Valley Institute for Resilience: $475,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetPhillips Exeter Academy: $436,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFoodcorps Inc: $425,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSeed Global Health: $425,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetThe Fred Rogers Company: $425,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSun Valley Summer Symphony Inc: $420,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $420,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSt Paul's School: $385,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetKhan Academy Inc: $350,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUnited States Ski Association: $330,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCarnegie Institute: $322,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHistorical Society of Western Pennsylvania: $300,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetRepresentUs Education Fund: $300,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetSun Valley Community School Inc: $293,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $275,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $265,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSimmons University: $255,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGiving Tuesday Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetEarth Day Network Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetThe Barack Obama Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInaturalist: $250,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetFriends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest: $250,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Aspen Institute Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetElevate Energy: $250,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSoul Fire Farm Institute Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetThe University of Connecticut Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $250,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTeam Rubicon Inc: $235,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $230,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRodale Institute: $225,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetThe Brookings Institution: $200,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNational Links Trust: $200,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budget412 Food Rescue Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSawtooth Sports Foundation Inc: $197,500 over 4y, 51% of budgetCoalfield Development Corporation: $185,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSun Valley Lacrosse Inc: $175,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetInternational Wilderness Leadership Foundation Inc: $175,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetNational Dance Institute: $170,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetLiving With Wolves Ltd: $163,000 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetNational Academy of Social Insurance: $162,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $160,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 196.

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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.

Spur Community Foundation IncID34.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Spur Community Foundation Inc · Boswell Family Foundation · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · The Heinz Endowments · The Grable Foundation · The Springcreek Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Von Der Heyden Family Foundation · The Nalen Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Sam and Peggy Grossman Family 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.

Compare Heinz Family Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to Heinz Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Heinz Family 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.

About Heinz Family Foundation

How much does Heinz Family Foundation give?
Heinz Family Foundation reported 98 grants totaling $4,265,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 61 and 113 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Heinz Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (20%), Arts & Culture (17%), Health (11%).
Who are Heinz Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Center for a New American Security Inc ($1.4M), Navy Seal Foundation Inc ($1.1M), Yale University ($741k).
Does Heinz Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Heinz Family 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 Heinz Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Spur Community Foundation Inc, Boswell Family Foundation, Idaho Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Heinz Family Foundation based?
Heinz Family Foundation is based in PA.

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 304 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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