Illinois · Private foundation
Jerold a & Ruth L Hecktman Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $52k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $639k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Jerold a & Ruth L Hecktman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 33 | $51k | 42% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $62k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $43k | 34% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $49k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $52k | 49% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $38k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $43k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $54k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago Public Library Foundation | $33,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Cancer Wellness Center | $6,883 | 7 | 0% |
| Briarwood Scholarship Foundation | $6,125 | 6 | 1% |
| College Bound Opportunities | $2,200 | 3 | 0% |
| Tourette Association of America Inc | $1,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Maccabi USA Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| World Business Chicago | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Helping Hands Network Inc | $1,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Impact Grants Chicago | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ort America Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($315k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jerold a & Ruth L Hecktman Family 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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · First Bank Chicago Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Sam I Am Foundation · Howard & Roberta Goss Charitable Foundat · The Bill Bass Foundation · Jbs Foundation · The Sidley Austin Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Jerold a & Ruth L Hecktman Family Foundation with peer funders
About Jerold a & Ruth L Hecktman Family Foundation
- How much does Jerold a & Ruth L Hecktman Family Foundation give?
- Jerold a & Ruth L Hecktman Family Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $51,856 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Jerold a & Ruth L Hecktman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (27%), Philanthropy (27%), Education (15%).
- Who are Jerold a & Ruth L Hecktman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Chicago Public Library Foundation ($34k), Cancer Wellness Center ($7k), Briarwood Scholarship Foundation ($6k).
- Does Jerold a & Ruth L Hecktman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jerold a & Ruth L Hecktman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jerold a & Ruth L Hecktman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, First Bank Chicago Foundation, AbbVie Foundation.
- Where is Jerold a & Ruth L Hecktman Family Foundation based?
- Jerold a & Ruth L Hecktman Family Foundation is based in IL.
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