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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.

$105k
Granted FY2020
23
Grants FY2020
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2020.

Philanthropy$200kYouth Development$162kEducation$63kHealth$41kInternational$25kCommunity Improvement$15kFood & Nutrition$12kReligion$6kOther$0
02FY2020 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k16 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $70k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NH FOOD BANK$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MANCHESTER$10,000
BEST BUDDIES NEW HAMPSHIRE$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
FAMILY REACH$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
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN MA$2,500
BEST BUDDIES NEW HAMPSHIRE$2,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MANCHESTER$2,500
BALLET MISHA$2,500
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ST GIANA'S PLACE INC: $4k → 5%NH FOOD BANK: $10k → 7%NH FOOD BANK: $750 → 7%NH FOOD BANK: $600 → 7%NH FOOD BANK: $450 → 7%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

NH
NY
MA
CA
UT
KS
TN
DC
OK
GA
TX
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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$254k · 13 repeat orgs$279k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
28

Total granted

$254k
$272k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+98%

Still filing today

62%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
HealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER
    3× · 2018–2020 · $56k · revenue +28%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +159%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NH INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $41k · revenue +194%

Funded once

  • NC
    NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue ×103
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $58k
  • SG
    ST GIANNA'S PLACE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +108%
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
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
2
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
3
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
4
Commonwealth Cancer Consortium Inc

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…

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5
Prayers From Maria Children's Glioma Cancer Foundation

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…

Health
6
Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network Inc

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).

Health
7
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
8
Children's Health Care

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.

Health
9
Boston Children's Network Specialty Physicians Inc

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…

Health
10
New York Blood Center Inc

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.

Health
11
Mercy Health

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…

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12
National Foundation for Cancer Research

To support cancer research and public education relating to prevention, earlier diagnosis, better treatments and ultimately, a cure for cancer.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Miracle Network; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 46 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
17/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER: $55,950 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER M…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NH INC: $41,284 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL A…Individual grant recipient: $58,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…BEST BUDDIES NEW HAMPSHIRE: $15,000 · OtherBEST BUDDIES NEW HAMPSHI…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY MAKING STR: $13,600 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY …HIGH HOPES FOUNDATION: $9,050 · OtherHIGH HOPES FOUNDATIONMIASP: $4,000 · Other+24 more: $14,493 · Other+24 moreFAMILY REACH FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Health+5 more: $1,150 · HealthGood Soil Partners Inc: $25,450 · InternationalNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $11,800 · Human ServicesST GIANNA'S PLACE INC: $4,319 · Human Services+1 more: $300 · Human ServicesBALLET MISHA: $2,500 · Arts & CultureBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $150 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals Inc: $150 · Animals
Philanthropy$200,000Youth Development$147,234Other$114,543Health$26,150International$25,450Human Services$16,419Arts & Culture$2,500Animals$300

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER: $55,950 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NH INC: $41,284 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGood Soil Partners Inc: $25,450 over 2y, 36% of budgetFAMILY REACH FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $11,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST GIANNA'S PLACE INC: $4,319 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBALLET MISHA: $2,500 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRAIN ANEURYSM FOUNDATION INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WISH PROJECT: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANNIE'S ANGELS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $150 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 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 THE WISH PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 46 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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