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Jerry Heymann - Special Account
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN EXCHANGE PROJECT | $1,000 |
| CLUBBED THUMB | $1,000 |
| ROSENDALE THEATER | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION | $350 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $344 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN | $305 |
| THE FRICK COLLECTION | $270 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| JOHN VOELKER FOUNDATION | $250 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $250 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $210 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS | $200 |
| BROOKLYN BOTANICAL GARDEN | $200 |
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $180 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 93% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +19% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2017–2024 · $4k · revenue +58%
- JTJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $1k · revenue +19%
- SRSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- HRHUMAN RIGHTS FIRSTone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -47%
- ABAMERICAN BALLET THEATER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $1k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INCone grant, 2023 · $850 · revenue +1%
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 of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
See schedule omuseum of the moving image (momi) is the only museum in the u.s. that explores the central technology of the present moment.screens are all around us. we use them to educate, entertain, and communicate. the moving…
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
The studio museum in harlem is a contemporary art museum that focuses on the work of artists of african descent - as well as work that has been inspired and influenced by african culture - past and present; through its exhibitions,…
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The mint museum welcomes all to be inspired and transformed through the power of art and creativity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan and the most unlike its peers is New Circle Theatre Company Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 59 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 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN ↗
- Who funds Clubbed Thumb Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN EXCHANGE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds The Pierpont Morgan Library ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ELYSIUM BETWEEN TWO CONTINENTS INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW PLAZA CINEMA INC ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds New Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Jerry Heymann - Special Account 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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