· Private foundation
Heller Family 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 $10k8 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN MEDICAL WOMENS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| THE COLONIAL THEATER SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| MIANUS RIVER GORGE PRESERVE | $5,000 |
| CANTERBURY CHORAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| AFTER BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS | $3,000 |
| WESTERLY LAND TRUST | $2,500 |
| TEENS GROW GREENS | $2,000 |
| RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER | $2,000 |
| DOING ART TOGETHER | $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 10%. 30% 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.
10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AMAMERICAN MEDICAL WOMENS ASSOCIATIONINC6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +144%
- TCThe Colonial Theatre School Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $31k · revenue +51%
- CCCANTERBURY CHORAL SOCIETY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $14k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- MRMIANUS RIVER GORGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +646%
- GFGRAYSON FAMILY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +485%
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.
Conserve, enhance, and celebrate our distinctive catskill sanctuary through sustainable horticulture, responsible land stewardship, and innovative educational programming
Kestrel land trust conserves and cares for forests, farms, and riverways in the connecticut river valley of western massachusetts while nurturing an enduring love of the land
Growing resilient communities through learning & stewardship.
The mission of the conservancy is to restore, maintain, and improve riverside park
The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
Through our original curriculum design that uses innovative growing spaces on rooftop farms, in school gardens, and public parks - city growers fosters a love of nature and encourages nyc youth to consider their place, agency, and future…
The Avery Coonley School elevates high-achieving and gifted learners through immersion in a mutually talented community where intellect, curiosity, and creativity are enhanced by optimal challenge.
Theater in the woods vermont co. educates children and adults in theater skills, creative community building, and connection to the natural world through summer camps, workshops, and productions.
Our mission is to spark wonder and intellectual curiosity in each child. We achieve this through a purposeful blend of:Engaging academics custom-tailored to each child's abilities, strengths and interests;An unparalleled social-emotional…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 13 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 RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MEDICAL WOMENS ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds The Colonial Theatre School Inc ↗
- Who funds DOING ART TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY CHORAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TEENS GROW GREENS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WESTERLY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds ABCD INC ↗
- Who funds MIANUS RIVER GORGE INC ↗
- Who funds GRAYSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Heller Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Heller Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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