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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.

$9k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$22kEducation$2kCivil Rights$2kRecreation & Sports$1kHealth$950Animals$769Philanthropy$750Environment$535Other$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$125
Median grant
5
States reached
$74k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLUBBED THUMB$1,000
AMERICAN EXCHANGE PROJECT$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
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$250
Individual grant recipient$250
JOHN VOELKER FOUNDATION$250
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$210
BROOKLYN BOTANICAL GARDEN$200
FRACTURED ATLAS$200
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$180
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%AMERICAN EXCHANGE PROJECT: $1k → 7%CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART: $225 → 11%MET PGA FOUNDATION: $300 → 9%JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION: $350 → 17%BROOKLYN BOTANICAL GARDEN: $200 → 20%ROSENDALE THEATER: $1k → 16%JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION: $350 → 17%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $425 → 28%JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION: $350 → 17%BROOKLYN BOTANICAL GARDEN: $200 → 20%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $344 → 28%NEW OHIO THEATRE: $250 → 17%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $420 → 17%THE FRICK COLLECTION: $270 → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $600 → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $600 → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $600 → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $600 → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $600 → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $600 → 17%NEUE GALERIE: $500 → 17%NEUE GALERIE: $325 → 17%NEUE GALERIE: $325 → 17%NEUE GALERIE: $325 → 17%NEUE GALERIE: $275 → 17%NEUE GALERIE: $275 → 17%AMERICAN BALLET THEATER FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $210 → 17%CLUBBED THUMB: $1k → 17%FRACTURED ATLAS: $200 → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL: $850 → 17%THIRTEEN (PUBLIC TV): $250 → 17%MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $200 → 17%PETER KWONG IMMIGRANT WORKERS LEARNING CENTER: $210 → 17%CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $305 → 17%CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $275 → 17%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $250 → 17%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $250 → 17%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $250 → 17%CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $250 → 17%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $250 → 17%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $250 → 17%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $250 → 17%CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $225 → 17%THE DRAMA LEAGUE: $250 → 17%THE DRAMA LEAGUE: $250 → 17%NEW CIRCLE THEATRE COMPANY: $250 → 17%HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

MT
MI
NY
MA
PA
VA
OK
TX
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24k · 29 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
13

Total granted

$24k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+1%

Still filing today

69%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    7× · 2017–2024 · $4k · revenue +58%
  • JT
    JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1k · revenue +19%
  • SR
    SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • HR
    HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -47%
  • AB
    AMERICAN BALLET THEATER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $850 · revenue +1%
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.

1
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
2
Museum of the City of New York

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…

Arts & Culture
3
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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,…

Arts & Culture
4
American Museum of the Moving Image

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Philadelphia Museum of Art

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
8
The Studio Museum in Harlem

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,…

Arts & Culture
9
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

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…

Arts & Culture
10
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
11
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
12
Mint Museum of Art Inc

The mint museum welcomes all to be inspired and transformed through the power of art and creativity.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan; 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.
04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
25/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $3,810 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTAmerican Museum of Natural History: $1,900 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural HistoryMuseum of Modern Art: $1,160 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern ArtJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $1,150 · Arts & CultureJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INCSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $1,150 · Arts & CultureSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATIONCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $1,055 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTANClubbed Thumb Inc: $1,000 · Arts & CultureClubbed Thumb IncWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $985 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTNew York Historical Society: $925 · Arts & CultureNew York Historical SocietyMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $795 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $565 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $1,735 · Arts & Culture+11 moreIndividual grant recipient: $2,025 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMERICAN BALLET THEATER FOUNDATION: $1,200 · OtherAMERICAN BALLET THEATER FOUNDATIONThe Frick Collection: $1,080 · OtherThe Frick CollectionROSENDALE THEATER: $1,000 · OtherROSENDALE THEATERTHE DRAMA LEAGUE: $1,000 · OtherTHE DRAMA LEAGUEJOHN D VOELKER FOUNDATION: $750 · OtherJOHN D VOELKER FOUNDATIONMET PGA FOUNDATION: $600 · OtherMET PGA FOUNDATIONPETER KWONG IMMIGRANT WORKERS LEARNING CENTER: $410 · Other+18 more: $2,605 · Other+18 moreTHE AMERICAN EXCHANGE PROJECT INC: $1,000 · EducationThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $525 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $300 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $290 · Education+1 more: $50 · EducationHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $1,500 · InternationalELYSIUM BETWEEN TWO CONTINENTS INC: $400 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC: $850 · HealthWildlife Conservation Society: $769 · AnimalsTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $35 · AnimalsBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $400 · Environment
Arts & Culture$16,230Other$10,670Education$2,165International$1,900Health$850Animals$804Environment$400

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $3,810 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $1,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $1,160 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $1,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $1,150 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $1,080 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $1,055 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN EXCHANGE PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetClubbed Thumb Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $985 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $925 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HERZOG HOSPITAL INC: $850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $795 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $769 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $565 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $525 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELYSIUM BETWEEN TWO CONTINENTS INC: $400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW PLAZA CINEMA INC: $300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $290 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTS POINT ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALLKILL VALLEY LAND TRUST: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLY FISHERS INTERNATIONAL: $85 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFILM FORUM INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMAGINE ACADEMY: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • 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 THE AMERICAN EXCHANGE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Clubbed Thumb 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 ↗

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 Communal FundThe Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY11.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jerry Heymann - Special Account funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jerry Heymann - Special Account. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Jerry Heymann - Special Account through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 59 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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