New Jersey · Private foundation
Hekemian Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $190k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 12
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Hekemian Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | $190k | 63% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $96k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $120k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $106k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $104k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $96k | 63% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $122k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sierra Watch | $70,891 | 6 | 7% |
| Hackensack Meridian Health Inc | $70,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pepperdine University | $70,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $62,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Armenia Fund Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Tahoe Church | $43,701 | 2 | n/a |
| Save the Waves Coalition | $39,082 | 5 | 1% |
| National Park Foundation | $39,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $37,351 | 3 | 0% |
| The Surfrider Foundation | $32,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sierra Watch | $70,891 | 6 | 7% |
| Hackensack Meridian Health Inc | $70,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pepperdine University | $70,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $62,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Armenia Fund Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Tahoe Church | $43,701 | 2 | n/a |
| Save the Waves Coalition | $39,082 | 5 | 1% |
| National Park Foundation | $39,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $37,351 | 3 | 0% |
| The Surfrider Foundation | $32,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Cornerstone Christian Church | $21,701 | 1 | n/a |
| Maui United Way | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| High Fives Nonprofit Foundation | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Public Radio Inc | $13,334 | 1 | 0% |
| World Spark | $13,333 | 1 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $13,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Americares Foundation Inc | $13,000 | 1 | 0% |
| City Year Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rainforest Alliance Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Shriners' Hospital for Children | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Eva's Village Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($184k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hekemian Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Hekemian Foundation
- How much does Hekemian Foundation give?
- Hekemian Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $190,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Hekemian Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (27%), Health (19%), Religion (13%).
- Who are Hekemian Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Sierra Watch ($71k), Hackensack Meridian Health Inc ($70k), Pepperdine University ($70k).
- Does Hekemian Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hekemian Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hekemian Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Hekemian Foundation based?
- Hekemian Foundation is based in NJ.
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