· Private foundation
Hess Philanthropic Fund
Its FY2024 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $421k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+10 grants · $19M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY | $8,850,000 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $4,450,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING | $1,500,000 |
| NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL | $1,100,000 |
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $1,003,625 |
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL | $726,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $630,000 |
| TRINITY SCHOOL | $335,000 |
| COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS | $300,000 |
| ASIA SOCIETY | $250,000 |
| LINCOLN CENTER THEATER | $225,000 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE | $200,000 |
| WNET | $200,000 |
| JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER | $195,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $186,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M 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
- MOMuseum of Modern Art4× · 2021–2024 · $14M · revenue +44%
- AMAmerican Museum of Natural History4× · 2021–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +24%
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES3× · 2021–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +40%
Funded once
- NYNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +46%
- TPTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -6%
- BGBANCROFT GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +0%
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…
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.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Rosenthal Center for Addictions Studies. 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 48 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 100 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 THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASIA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds SESAME WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds PLEDGELING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds BANCROFT GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds EAST HAMPTON LIBRARY ↗
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 · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Shana Alexander Charitable Foundation · J & Ar Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Hess Philanthropic Fund 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% 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.