Maine · Private foundation
Jack and Deborah Daw Heffernan 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.
- $39k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $140
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $296k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Jack and Deborah Daw Heffernan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 23 | $39k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $32k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $30k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $38k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $40k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $16k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $14k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $19k | 68% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakes Environmental Association | $41,180 | 8 | 2% |
| Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity | $39,570 | 8 | 2% |
| Bridgton Historical Society | $31,250 | 4 | 9% |
| Bridgton Food Pantry | $29,771 | 6 | 2% |
| Loon Echo Land Trust Inc | $17,386 | 8 | 1% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $15,405 | 5 | 0% |
| Mount Washington Observatory | $5,400 | 8 | 0% |
| Bridgton Community Center | $5,250 | 6 | 2% |
| Scad Alliance | $3,523 | 6 | 1% |
| Plan International USA Inc | $2,970 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($33k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jack and Deborah Daw Heffernan 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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Carl M Lindberg Family Foundation Inc · Davis Family Foundation · The Robert and Dorothy Goldberg Charitable Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Reny Charitable Foundation · Libra Foundation · Davis Conservation Foundation · Onion Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Jack and Deborah Daw Heffernan Foundation with peer funders
About Jack and Deborah Daw Heffernan Foundation
- How much does Jack and Deborah Daw Heffernan Foundation give?
- Jack and Deborah Daw Heffernan Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $38,952 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Jack and Deborah Daw Heffernan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (32%), Environment (26%), Health (15%).
- Who are Jack and Deborah Daw Heffernan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lakes Environmental Association ($41k), Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity ($40k), Bridgton Historical Society ($31k).
- Does Jack and Deborah Daw Heffernan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jack and Deborah Daw Heffernan 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 Jack and Deborah Daw Heffernan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, The Carl M Lindberg Family Foundation Inc, Davis Family Foundation.
- Where is Jack and Deborah Daw Heffernan Foundation based?
- Jack and Deborah Daw Heffernan Foundation is based in ME.
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