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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.
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k5 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COASTAL MAINE BOTANICAL GARDENS INC | $70,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATES BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV | $25,000 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $23,263 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $15,000 |
| NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC | $5,000 |
| WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS | $3,600 |
| NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION | $3,500 |
| AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE | $2,500 |
| MIT HILLEL | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +38% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2020, 15 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- CMCoastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc2× · 2020–2022 · $170k · revenue +132%
- AFAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC4× · 2018–2023 · $120k · revenue +41%
- FOFRIENDS OF MEALI INTERNATIONAL INC3× · 2017–2023 · $108k · revenue +306%
Funded once
- NJNEW JERSEY CIVIC YOUTH BALLET INCone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +20%
- MEMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARYone grant, 2018 · $3k
CITY HARVEST INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +58%
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 museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
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 mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Aquarium Corporation and the most unlike its peers is New Jersey Civic Youth Ballet 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 43 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 9% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 46 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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MEALI INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences ↗
- Who funds Midcoast Conservancy ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - NEEDHAM INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE MAY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BOOTHBAY SEA AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association Boothbay Region ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CIVIC YOUTH BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA OMEGA COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN BRAILLE WORKERS INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
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: 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
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 Ina & Lewis Heafitz Charitable 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.
- The May Institute Inc — 47% of income from government
- Uss Constitution Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- New World Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 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.
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