Minnesota · Private foundation
Heller Foundation of San Diego
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.
- $325k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $67,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 42
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Heller Foundation of San Diego funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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 | 34 | $320k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $270k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $262k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $309k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $241k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $250k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zoological Society of San Diego | $371,721 | 6 | 0% |
| Anza-Borrego Foundation | $130,000 | 6 | 3% |
| YMCA of San Diego County | $89,175 | 3 | 0% |
| California State Parks Foundation | $75,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Yosemite Foundation | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| San Diego Society of Natural History | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Forever Balboa Park | $35,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The San Diego River Park Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Outdoor Outreach | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Cabrillo National Monument Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($313k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Heller Foundation of San Diego 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: The San Diego Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Sempra Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Art Pratt Foundation of Old Mission Rc
How this is measured
About Heller Foundation of San Diego
- How much does Heller Foundation of San Diego give?
- Heller Foundation of San Diego reported 35 grants totaling $325,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 42 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Heller Foundation of San Diego fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (26%), Environment (21%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are Heller Foundation of San Diego's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Zoological Society of San Diego ($372k), Anza-Borrego Foundation ($130k), YMCA of San Diego County ($89k).
- Does Heller Foundation of San Diego fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Heller Foundation of San Diego 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 Heller Foundation of San Diego?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, The Conrad Prebys Foundation, Pratt Memorial Fund.
- Where is Heller Foundation of San Diego based?
- Heller Foundation of San Diego is based in MN.
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