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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.

$129k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$217kEducation$137kRecreation & Sports$106kPhilanthropy$91kEnvironment$88kYouth Development$42kHealth$36kHuman Services$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $91k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB$20,000
TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY$16,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA$15,000
UNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC$10,000
LITTLE COMPTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND$10,000
LITTLE COMPTON COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
FRIENDS OF LITTLE COMPTON WELLNESS CTR$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,500
LITTLE COMPTON WELLNESS CENTER$5,000
EMERSON COLLEGE$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY LEGAL CARE: $10k → 20%COMMUNITY HOSPICE OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA: $500 → 14%RETHREADED: $1k → 14%RETHREADED: $1k → 14%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 14%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

NY
MA
NJ
RI
CA
VA
DC
GA
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$678k · 35 repeat orgs$170k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
39

Total granted

$678k
$133k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+9%

Still filing today

54%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthInternationalOther
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

  • MT
    MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +35%
  • LC
    Little Compton Community Center Corporation
    4× · 2021–2025 · $81k · revenue +96%
  • NY
    NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
    5× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • TS
    The Sakonnet Preservation Association Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -69%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • FL
    FAMILY LEGAL CARE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +22%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
3
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
4
Barton College

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…

Education
5
University of New Haven

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…

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
8
Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education
9
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
10
Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton Inc

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.

Education
11
Sarah Lawrence College

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…

Education
12
Wheaton College

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Contemporary Art Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 82 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
31/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Sakonnet Preservation Association Inc: $50,000 · OtherThe Sakonnet Preservation Association IncScholarship Little Compton: $30,000 · OtherScholarship Little ComptonKIDDO: $29,200 · OtherKIDDOBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $23,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICARONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE INC: $20,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE INCURIFAE: $20,000 · OtherURIFAEIndividual grant recipient: $19,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY - RI CHAPTER: $15,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY RI: $15,000 · OtherTIGER ACADEMY: $13,500 · Other+38 more: $111,946 · Other+38 moreMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $93,958 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INCNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $48,125 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTI…Trinity Repertory Company: $36,500 · Arts & CultureTrinity Repertory CompanyROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $9,248 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $7,546 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $7,330 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $90,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MA…PLAY BALL FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 · PhilanthropyPLAY BALL FOUNDA…+3 more: $8,500 · Philanthropy+3 moreLittle Compton Community Center Corporation: $81,000 · Recreation & SportsLittle Comp…+1 more: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsEPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF JACKSONVILLE INC: $24,500 · EducationEPISCOPAL…SOPHIA ACADEMY: $21,500 · EducationSOPHIA AC…THE BOLLES SCHOOL: $6,000 · EducationTHE BOLLE…EMERSON COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationEMERSON C…MILL VALLEY SCHOOLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA KIDDO: $2,500 · Education+7 more: $8,500 · Education+7 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentFAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesRethreaded Inc: $2,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY HOSPICE OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA: $500 · Human Services
Other$347,846Arts & Culture$202,707Philanthropy$121,000Recreation & Sports$83,000Education$68,000Youth Development$15,000Human Services$13,500

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 budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $93,958 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $90,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetLittle Compton Community Center Corporation: $81,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetThe Sakonnet Preservation Association Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $48,125 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity Repertory Company: $36,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetScholarship Little Compton: $30,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetEPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF JACKSONVILLE INC: $24,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY BALL FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSOPHIA ACADEMY: $21,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFriends of Little Compton Wellness Center: $11,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $9,248 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $7,546 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOLLES SCHOOL: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS CENTER OF JACKSONVILLE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRhode Islanders Sponsoring Education: $4,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGOLF FIGHTS CANCER INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITE THE WORLD WITH AFRICA FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH FLORIDA LAND TRUST INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILL VALLEY SCHOOLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA KIDDO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $2,140 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS & STUDENTS INCMVMSPTA: $2,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDont Miss A Beat Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetADAPTIVE SPORTS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRethreaded Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF SAKONNET LIGHTHOUSE INC: $1,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFOXG1 Research Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJACKSONVILLE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVoice for Children Inc AKA Voices for Children of Florida: $1,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetGREENSCAPE OF JACKSONVILLE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROANOKE COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELEVATE JACKSONVILLE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $940 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 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 EMERSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WOMENS CENTER OF JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education ↗
  • Who funds GOLF FIGHTS CANCER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITE THE WORLD WITH AFRICA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH FLORIDA LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds MILL VALLEY SCHOOLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA KIDDO ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…The Rhode Island Comm…Pga Tour IncMutual of America Fou…Mussafer Family Found…The Schultz Foundatio…Stellar FoundationThe Haskell FoundationAmica Companies Found…Gpb FoundationJess & Brewster J Dur…Weatherlow Foundation
The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida IncFL24.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 82 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home