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Hess Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$224k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Itemized grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$23k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$1,950
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$129k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
71% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Religion$23kEducation$12kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bmg Student Aid Fund$11,80011%
Simchas Chaim Inc$2,0001n/a
Tomchei Shabbos of Lakewood Inc$1,9501n/a
B M of Pine St Inc$9721n/a

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($19k), not named here.

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About Hess Family Foundation

How much does Hess Family Foundation give?
Hess Family Foundation reported 7 itemized grants totaling $22,646, out of $223,656 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Hess Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (8%), Education (4%), Philanthropy (0%).
Who are Hess Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Bmg Student Aid Fund ($12k), Simchas Chaim Inc ($2k), Tomchei Shabbos of Lakewood Inc ($2k).
Does Hess Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Hess Family Foundation based?
Hess Family Foundation is based in NJ.

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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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