New York · Private foundation
Heyday 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.
- $703k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $145,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 54
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Heyday Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 43 | $558k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $644k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 54 | $463k | 46% |
| FY2022 | 50 | $477k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $515k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $357k | 49% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $301k | 53% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $250k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Redistricting Foundation | $385,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Meridian International Center | $333,600 | 8 | 0% |
| Pen American Center Inc | $267,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Center for American Progress | $225,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Studio Museum in Harlem | $220,500 | 8 | 0% |
| William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc | $200,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Theatre Wing Inc | $181,000 | 9 | 1% |
| LGBTQ Victory Institute Inc | $150,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Council on Foreign Relations Inc | $111,080 | 6 | 0% |
| The Campaign Legal Center Inc | $110,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 143 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($290k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Heyday Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ford Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Rockefeller Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Arison Arts Foundation · The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to Heyday Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Heyday Foundation
- How much does Heyday Foundation give?
- Heyday Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $702,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 54 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Heyday Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (26%), Arts & Culture (26%), Philanthropy (16%).
- Who are Heyday Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: National Redistricting Foundation ($385k), Meridian International Center ($334k), Pen American Center Inc ($267k).
- Does Heyday Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Heyday Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Heyday Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Ford Foundation, The New York Community Trust.
- Where is Heyday Foundation based?
- Heyday Foundation is based in NY.
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