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.

Jerold a & Ruth L Hecktman Family Foundation

Jerold a & Ruth L Hecktman Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Jerold a & Ruth L Hecktman Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$52k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$93kPhilanthropy$93kEducation$53kArts & Culture$44kHealth$17kHuman Services$3kCommunity Improvement$3kInternational$2kOther$0

02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k33 grants · $27k
$10k–50k2 grants · $25k

$250

Median grant

States reached

$639k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JUF	$15,000
SPERTUS INSTITUTE	$10,000
GENESYS WORKS	$5,000
CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION	$5,000
TEMPLE BETH-EL	$3,700
Individual grant recipient	$2,650
BRIARWOOD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION	$1,975
TOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA	$1,600
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY	$995
GIVING BACK FUND (TRIBE OF NOVA)	$500
CAMP ONE STEP	$500
JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE WEST	$500
DESERT MOUNTAIN CARE	$400
FRIENDS OF ISREAL DEFENSE FORCES	$360
HADASSAH	$288

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$374k · 52 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

52 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$374k

$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%

+30%

Still filing today

54%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

CW
CANCER WELLNESS CENTER
7× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +100%
BS
BRIARWOOD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +56%
CB
COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES
3× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +2%

Funded once

WB
WORLD BUSINESS CHICAGOgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +58%
IG
IMPACT GRANTS CHICAGOgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +26%
OA
ORT AMERICA INC
one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +6%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health

The Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Research Foundation

The adenoid cyctic carcinoma research foundation (accrf) supports research into adenoid cystic carcinoma that will accelerate the development of improved therapies and a cure for the disease.

Health

Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

—

Leonard and Diane Sherman Family Foundation

The foundation is organized to foster, promote, support, develop, encourage and maintain the broad charitable, educational and/or religious purpose of, the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago, and the foundation as authorized in…

Philanthropy

Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy

The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

—

Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health

Chicago Center for Jewish Genetic Disorders

The norton & elaine sarnoff center for jewish genetics (the center) is an educational resource for hereditary cancers and jewish genetic disorders. working closely with clergy, health care professionals, support organizations and dedicated…

Health

National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement

Jewish Communal Fund

To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.

Philanthropy

Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy

The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Juliana Greenfield Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 71 of the 128 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

70/71

Grantees still filing

48/71

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$328,356Education$42,675Health$13,343Philanthropy$7,150Youth Development$2,200Recreation & Sports$1,700Human Services$1,660

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL20.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jerold a & Ruth L Hecktman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jerold a & Ruth L Hecktman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

Play a game based on Jerold a & Ruth L Hecktman Family’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home