· Private foundation
Lenore B & Frank M Heffernan Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of LENORE B & FRANK M HEFFERNAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $97k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ICA CRISTO REY ACADEMY | $250,000 |
| MARIN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ORDER OF MALTA CLINIC OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES SF | $25,000 |
| SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| DOMINICAN SISTERS VISION OF HOPE | $22,000 |
| HEFFERNAN FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO | $10,000 |
| FINE ARTS MUSEUMS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST JOHN VIANNEY CHURCH | $1,000 |
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, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- MGMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2024 · $185k · revenue +270%
- POPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE6× · 2018–2024 · $155k · revenue +39%
- OOOrder of Malta Clinic of Northern California3× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +276%
Funded once
- DSDOMINICAN SISTERS OF MISSION SJone grant, 2022 · $100k
- DSDOMINICAN SISTERS OF MISSIONone grant, 2018 · $50k
- OOORDER OF MALTA-NORTHERN CAone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Ucsf health community hospital's mission statement is caring, healing, teaching, and discovering.
Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…
The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.
St. mary's medical center foundation exists to support the mission of dignity health dba, st. mary's medical center. we do this through our encouragement of charitable giving, our stewardship of donor gifts, and our own grant making, which…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
See schedule othe mission of ucsf health medical foundation is threefold: 1) to establish, operate and maintain medical clinics for the provision of healthcare services in california; 2) to promote health by providing, coordinating,…
To be the destination for health and healing in the north bay.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
The order of malta is a worldwide, lay, religious order of the roman catholic church, which seeks to glorify god by promoting the sanctification of each member through his or her work with the sick and the poor and witness to the catholic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Cyo of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the most unlike its peers is Heffernan Group Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 34 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 MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Collective Impact ↗
- Who funds Order of Malta Clinic of Northern California ↗
- Who funds SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA WESTERN ASSOCIATION-USA ↗
- Who funds HEFFERNAN GROUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MARIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds BY THE BAY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds LITTLE WISHES ↗
- Who funds GOD SQUAD PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds FINE ARTS MUSEUMS FOUNDATION ↗
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: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Trust Funds Incorporated · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Lenore B & Frank M Heffernan Family Foundation Inc 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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