· Private foundation
Jean R D Hecht & Betty Rae Hecht Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of JEAN R D HECHT & BETTY RAE HECHT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $1,200 |
| ST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH | $1,000 |
| TUCKERTON SEAPORT SOCIETY | $750 |
| OCEAN COUNTY COLLEGE | $750 |
| JERSEY SHORE ANIMAL CENTER | $700 |
| OCEAN COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $700 |
| BERLIN AIRLIFT HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $600 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $600 |
| ASSOCIATION HUMANE SOCIETIES | $525 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CLIFTON | $500 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS | $500 |
| SILVERTON FIRST AID SQUAD | $500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $500 |
| TOMS RIVER FIRE COMPANY | $500 |
| CHOP | $500 |
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 (FY18–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
123 repeat relationships — 101 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC7× · 2018–2024 · $7k · revenue +125%- JSJERSEY SHORE ANIMAL CENTER INC7× · 2018–2024 · $5k · revenue +38%
- IHISLAND HEIGHTS CULTURAL & HERITAGE ASSOCIATION7× · 2018–2024 · $4k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- TRTOMS RIVER POLICE VEST FUNDone grant, 2018 · $1k
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF OCEAN CITYone grant, 2023 · $1k
- NPNICHOLAS PAGGI MEMORIAL SCHOLORSHIPone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
Clean ocean action's goal is to improve and protect the waters off the new jersey/new york coast from pollution, plastics, industrialization and climate change with research, education and citizen action.
The national wwii museum tells the story of the american experience in the war that changed the world-why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today-so that all generations will understand the price of freedom and be inspired…
Promote the study and conservation of marine life and its habitat, defend the coast from harm, and empower others to do the same.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
It is the mission of the seacoast science center to spark curiosity, enhance understanding, and inspire conservation of our blue planet. the center's programming and exhibits encourage visitors and other program participants to recognize…
The navy memorial mission is to honor, recognize and celebrate the men and women of the sea services and the important contributions made by them while serving in the united states navy, marine corps, coast guard and merchant marine. the…
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…
The northeastern regional association of coastal and ocean observing systems' (neracoos) mission is to produce, integrate and communicate high- quality information that helps ensure safety, economic and environmental resilience, and…
The mission of shore medical center is to care for and respect all patients, their families and each other. the organization provides emergency and medical necessary healthcare services for all individuals regardless of race, color, creed,…
The connecticut river museum's mission is to deepen appreciation of the river's history and to inspire its stewardship by providing unique educational and recreational experiences to diverse audiences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coast Guard Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Toms River Seaport Society. 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 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 150 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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Toms River Seaport Society ↗
- Who funds JERSEY SHORE ANIMAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HEIGHTS CULTURAL & HERITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OCEAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GLASSROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THOUGHT INC ↗
- Who funds Silverton First Aid Squad ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CLIFTON INC ↗
- Who funds BERLIN AIRLIFT HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMALL MIRACLES INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP NO WORRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
- Who funds MAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRINGS ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE JERSEY SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A NEED WE FEED INC ↗
- Who funds CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Oceanfirst Foundation · Wintrode Family Foundation Inc · The Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation D/B/A Grunin Foundation · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · The Donofrio Foundation · The Citta Foundation Inc · The Buckelew Family Foundation · Manasquan Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Saga Community Focus Inc · The Kotzas Family Charitable Foundation · The Provident Bank 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 Jean R D Hecht & Betty Rae Hecht 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.
- Ocean's Harbor House Inc — 75% of income from government
- Family Promise of Essex County Inc — 33% of income from government
- Hope Sheds Light Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Glassroots Inc — 5% of income from government
- 21 Plus Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Silverton First Aid Squad — 0% of income from government
- Ocean County Ymca 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.