· Private foundation
Heritage Helps Foundation
Its FY2020 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k16 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY REACH | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN MA | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN MA | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL NH | $10,000 |
| NH FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MANCHESTER | $10,000 |
| BEST BUDDIES NEW HAMPSHIRE | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN MA | $5,000 |
| FAMILY REACH | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MANCHESTER | $4,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL NH | $3,284 |
| WEARE HOME EDUCATORS | $2,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MANCHESTER | $2,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN MA | $2,500 |
| BEST BUDDIES NEW HAMPSHIRE | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–20, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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.
13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER3× · 2018–2020 · $56k · revenue +28%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +159%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NH INC2× · 2019–2020 · $41k · revenue +194%
Funded once
- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue ×103
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $58k
- SGST GIANNA'S PLACE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +108%
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Break through cancer is a foundation dedicated to supporting translational research in the most difficult to treat cancers. our partner organizations are among the top cancer research centers and together, represent some of the most…
The prayers from maria foundation was established to fight a specific form of childhood brain cancer commonly referred to as "gliomas." the foundation's purpose is to find a cure for this tragic family of diseases, while also providing…
The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
BCNSP supports the following three pillars of Boston Children's Hospital's four-part mission: (1) providing care to individuals in the community, (2) improving clinical care to its patients, and (3) educating and training clinicians. In…
As one of the most preeminent and comprehensive blood centers in theworld, nybc operates under a four-part mission. for more information,see sch. o and part iii, 4a-c.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
To support cancer research and public education relating to prevention, earlier diagnosis, better treatments and ultimately, a cure for cancer.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Miracle Network and the most unlike its peers is Ballet Misha. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 46 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 NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NH INC ↗
- Who funds Good Soil Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY REACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds ST GIANNA'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET MISHA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE BRAIN ANEURYSM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ANNIE'S ANGELS MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Heritage Helps 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Lynn Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.