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Jw Heller Foundation
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NYP WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER | $100,000 |
| USC SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS | $50,000 |
| SAG HARBOR CINEMA ART CENTER | $19,100 |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $15,825 |
| COLUMBIA GRAMMAR SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN | $10,000 |
| HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL FIM FESTIVAL | $10,000 |
| ROBIN HOOD | $6,000 |
| FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER | $5,000 |
| SOUTHAMPTON BATH & TENNIS CHARITABLE FUND | $5,000 |
| BARROW STREET NURSERY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| FRIENDS OF IDF | $3,600 |
| HUDSON RIVER PARK FRIENDS | $2,599 |
| SCHWARZMAN ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 7 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- RHROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $42k · revenue +29%
- TGTHE GHETTO FILM SCHOOL INC5× · 2017–2021 · $32k · revenue +225%
- WMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART8× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +161%
Funded once
- NYNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +16%
Rape Abuse & Incest National Networkone grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue +15%- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -51%
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 mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
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 institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Riverdale Neighborhood House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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 39 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 54 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 SOUTHAMPTON BATH & TENNIS CLUB CHARITABLE FUND ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GHETTO FILM SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAG HARBOR CINEMA ARTS CENTER INC CO SUSAN MEAD ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) ↗
- Who funds SAG HARBOR PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds Scleroderma Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds FILM FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds FOOTSTEPS INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERDALE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds 1LOVE4ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF 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 · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Jw Heller 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Heartbeet Lifesharing Corporation — 13% 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.
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