· Private foundation
Higgins Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $91k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB | $20,000 |
| TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY | $16,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LITTLE COMPTON WELLNESS CTR | $10,000 |
| LITTLE COMPTON COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| LITTLE COMPTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| EMERSON COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| LITTLE COMPTON WELLNESS CENTER | $5,000 |
| THE PUBLIC THEATER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER | $5,000 |
| TIGER ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF JACKSONVILLE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +32% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- MTMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC8× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +35%
- LCLittle Compton Community Center Corporation4× · 2021–2025 · $81k · revenue +96%
- NYNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL5× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- TSThe Sakonnet Preservation Association Incone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -69%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE INCone grant, 2017 · $20k
- FLFAMILY LEGAL CARE INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +22%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Contemporary Art Inc and the most unlike its peers is FOXG1 Research Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 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.
51 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. 51 of the 82 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 MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Little Compton Community Center Corporation ↗
- Who funds The Sakonnet Preservation Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Trinity Repertory Company ↗
- Who funds Scholarship Little Compton ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds PLAY BALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOPHIA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Friends of Little Compton Wellness Center ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LEGAL CARE INC ↗
- Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds THE BOLLES SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WOMENS CENTER OF JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds EMERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education ↗
- Who funds UNITE THE WORLD WITH AFRICA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOLF FIGHTS CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH FLORIDA LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MILL VALLEY SCHOOLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA KIDDO ↗
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: The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Pga Tour Inc · Mutual of America Foundation · Mussafer Family Foundation · The Schultz Foundation Inc · Stellar Foundation · The Haskell Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Gpb Foundation · Jess & Brewster J Durkee Foundation · Weatherlow 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 Higgins Family 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.
- North Florida Land Trust Inc — 81% of income from government
- Womens Center of Jacksonville Inc — 37% of income from government
- United Way of Martin County Inc — 4% of income from government
- Dont Miss a Beat Inc — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Northeast Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- Greenscape of Jacksonville Inc — 2% of income from government
- Emerson College — 0% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance 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.