· Private foundation
Herbert and Lillian Heilpern 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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k84 grants · $196k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA INC | $31,000 |
| 70 FACES MEDIA INC | $12,000 |
| NORTH SHORE JEWISH CENTER | $10,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL PARENTS ASSOCIATION INC | $8,000 |
| HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| SPECIAL MUSIC SCHOOL PTA | $6,500 |
| HIAS INC | $5,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LOS ANGELES | $5,000 |
| LONG ISLAND CARES INC | $5,000 |
| NORTH SHORE JEWISH CENTER | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC | $5,000 |
| ELI AND BESSIE COHEN CAMPS | $5,000 |
| NORTH SHORE JEWISH CENTER | $5,000 |
| MAZON INC A JEWISH RESPONSE TO HUNGER | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
90 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 15 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BBBROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $99k · revenue +358%
- BPBROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +227%
- EAELI AND BESSIE COHEN CAMPS7× · 2019–2025 · $31k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- TWTHE WARD MELVILLE HERITAGE ORGANIZATION LTDgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +45%
- TBTEMPLE BETH ELone grant, 2023 · $2k
- CNCLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +25%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action (JFREJ Action or JFREJ) is the home for Jewish New Yorkers organizing with our neighbors and allies to transform New York from a playground for the wealthy few into a real democracy for all of us.…
Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
To empower new yorkers, providing integrated mental health and social services with compassion and expertise.
The organization works to inspire and empower educators and institutions to create transformative jewish learning experiences for children, teens, and families. building on its historic role serving jewish day schools, congregations, and…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
See schedule ojewish news service, inc. ("jns") was organized as a non-profit corporation under the general laws of massachusetts and is an independent business resource and syndication service covering jewish news and israel news for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Forward Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
145 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 145 of the 157 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEND A HAND PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ELI AND BESSIE COHEN CAMPS ↗
- Who funds THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds 70 FACES MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds The Forward Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL PARENTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Long Island Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HARVEST LTD ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC ↗
- Who funds TOURO UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds Special Music School PTA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HILLEL AT STONY BROOK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Ministry for Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds THE INTERFAITH NUTRITION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds HONESTREPORTINGCOM INC ↗
- Who funds THE WARD MELVILLE HERITAGE ORGANIZATION LTD ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · The New York Community Trust · City Parks Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Express Foundation · The Marilyn Lichtman Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Herbert and Lillian Heilpern Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.