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Hekemian Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$190k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Environment$229kHealth$156kReligion$110kEducation$80kInternational$76kArts & Culture$36kHousing & Shelter$25kPhilanthropy$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC$70,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY$20,000
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$20,000
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC$13,334
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$13,333
WORLD SPARK$13,333
EVA'S VILLAGE INC$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $16k → 10%SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $13k → 10%TAHOE FOREST CHURCH: $25k → 11%SAVE THE WAVES COALITION: $11k → 13%PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 14%MAUI UNITED WAY INC: $15k → 9%NPR INC (CO WNYC RADIO): $12k → 17%BELDEN BETHEL CHAPEL: $20k → 20%NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%SHRINERS HOSPITAL: $30k → 13%AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $13k → 9%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $13k → 21%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $12k → 22%DON'T HIDE IT FLAUNT IT: $9k → 14%SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%TAHOE FOREST CHURCH: $19k → 11%SAVE THE WAVES COALITION: $9k → 13%PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%NPR INC (CO WNYC RADIO): $11k → 17%BELDEN BETHEL CHAPEL: $14k → 20%NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 13%BOROUGH OF MONTVALE: $35k → 7%DON'T HIDE IT FLAUNT IT: $8k → 14%SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%SAVE THE WAVES COALITION: $8k → 13%PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%RAINFOREST ALLIANCE: $10k → 17%NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $11k → 14%SHRINERS HOSPITAL: $12k → 13%ARMENIAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $25k → 7%DON'T HIDE IT FLAUNT IT: $7k → 14%SAVE THE WAVES COALITION: $7k → 13%ARMENIA FUND INC: $26k → 14%NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $13k → 14%CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $22k → 7%DON'T HIDE IT FLAUNT IT: $7k → 14%SIERRA WATCH: $23k → 11%ARMENIA FUND INC: $24k → 14%SIERRA WATCH: $16k → 11%HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $70k → 7%SIERRA WATCH: $9k → 11%SIERRA WATCH: $8k → 11%SIERRA WATCH: $8k → 11%SIERRA WATCH: $7k → 11%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

NY
MA
OR
NJ
CT
CA
VA
NC
DC
HI
GA
FL
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$577k · 14 repeat orgs$257k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
11

Total granted

$577k
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+40%

Still filing today

64%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • SW
    SIERRA WATCH
    6× · 2019–2024 · $71k · revenue +114%
  • PU
    PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $70k · revenue +8%
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    3× · 2023–2025 · $62k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • CC
    CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $22k
  • MU
    MAUI UNITED WAYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +188%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +40%
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
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech
5
Sempervirens Fund

To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…

Environment
6
Nia Tero Foundation

Nia tero works alongside indigenous peoples to secure their guardianship of vital ecosystems. indigenous peoples are guardians of earth.(see schedule o)

Environment
7
Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

Environment
8
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
9
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
10
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
11
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
12
World Monuments Fund Inc

Wmf is the leading independent organization devoted to safeguarding the world's most treasured places to enrich people's lives and build mutual understanding across cultures and communities. the organization is headquartered in new york…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shriners Hospitals for Children; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

18 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. 18 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH INC: $70,000 · OtherHACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH INCTAHOE CHURCH: $43,701 · OtherTAHOE CHURCHNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $39,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $33,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientARMENIAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $31,201 · OtherARMENIAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHDON'T HIDE IT FLAUNT IT: $30,170 · OtherDON'T HIDE IT FLAUNT ITNPR INC (CO WNYC RADIO): $23,016 · OtherNPR INC (CO WNYC RADIO)CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $21,701 · Other+9 more: $82,500 · Other+9 moreSIERRA WATCH: $70,891 · EnvironmentSIERRA WATCHSave the Waves Coalition: $39,082 · EnvironmentSave the Waves CoalitionSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $37,351 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATIONTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $32,500 · EnvironmentTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATIONSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $62,000 · HealthSHRINERS HO…HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthHIGH FIVES …THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $6,000 · HealthTHE SHRINER…PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $70,000 · EducationPEPPERDIN…ARMENIA FUND INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyMAUI UNITED WAY: $15,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $13,334 · Arts & CultureWorld Spark: $13,333 · Housing & Shelter
Other$409,789Environment$179,824Health$83,000Education$70,000Philanthropy$65,000Arts & Culture$13,334Housing & Shelter$13,333

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSIERRA WATCH: $70,891 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $62,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARMENIA FUND INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSave the Waves Coalition: $39,082 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $39,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $37,351 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $13,334 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $13,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVA'S VILLAGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 SIERRA WATCH ↗
  • Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds ARMENIA FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Save the Waves Coalition ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAUI UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
  • Who funds World Spark ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds RAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds EVA'S VILLAGE 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Hekemian Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hekemian Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Eva's Village Inc: 19% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 30 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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