Massachusetts · Private foundation
Ina & Lewis Heafitz Charitable Foundation
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.
- $149k
- Granted FY2020
- 9
- Grants FY2020
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2020
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2020
Read this first · the figures below need context
87% of Ina & Lewis Heafitz Charitable Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Ina & Lewis Heafitz Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $149k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2020
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2020
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2020
- States reached, FY2020
- 6
- Total assets, FY2020
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2020, 13% of the organizations Ina & Lewis Heafitz Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2020 | 8 | $134k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $138k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $164k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $64k | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc | $170,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Americans for Ben-Gurion University Inc | $120,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Museum of Science | $115,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of Meali International Inc | $107,500 | 3 | 14% |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $72,104 | 3 | 0% |
| Temple Emanuel of Newton | $52,667 | 7 | n/a |
| Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences | $50,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Midcoast Conservancy | $30,810 | 2 | 1% |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham Inc | $27,167 | 3 | 0% |
| The May Institute Inc | $18,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($176k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ina & Lewis Heafitz Charitable 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Leach Elizabeth Ann Pfdn · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Ina & Lewis Heafitz Charitable Foundation
- How much does Ina & Lewis Heafitz Charitable Foundation give?
- Ina & Lewis Heafitz Charitable Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $148,863 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
- What does Ina & Lewis Heafitz Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (67%), Environment (7%), Science & Tech (6%).
- Who are Ina & Lewis Heafitz Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc ($170k), Americans for Ben-Gurion University Inc ($120k), Museum of Science ($116k).
- Does Ina & Lewis Heafitz Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2020, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ina & Lewis Heafitz Charitable 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 Ina & Lewis Heafitz Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Leach Elizabeth Ann Pfdn, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc.
- Where is Ina & Lewis Heafitz Charitable Foundation based?
- Ina & Lewis Heafitz Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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