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Lenore B & Frank M Heffernan Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Lenore B & Frank M Heffernan Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$453k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$895kReligion$452kHealth$286kHuman Services$130kYouth Development$90kPhilanthropy$25kArts & Culture$8k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $97k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$371k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ICA CRISTO REY ACADEMY$250,000
ORDER OF MALTA CLINIC OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA$50,000
MARIN HEALTH FOUNDATION$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
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ORDER OF MALTA-WESTERN ASSOC: $25k → 10%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10k → 10%ORDER OF MALTA-WESTERN ASSOC: $25k → 10%ORDER OF MALTA-WESTERN ASSOC: $10k → 10%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO: $5k → 10%BY THE BAY HEALTH: $5k → 8%HOSPICE BY THE BAY: $4k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIESCYO: $10k → 10%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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 18 repeat orgs$260k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against -8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
14

Total granted

$1.6M
$254k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
-8%

Still filing today

56%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • MG
    MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $185k · revenue +270%
  • PO
    PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE
    6× · 2018–2024 · $155k · revenue +39%
  • OO
    Order of Malta Clinic of Northern California
    3× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +276%

Funded once

  • DS
    DOMINICAN SISTERS OF MISSION SJ
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • DS
    DOMINICAN SISTERS OF MISSION
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • CC
    Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -8%
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
Sutter Bay Hospitals

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,…

Health
2
Ucsf Health Community Hospitals Fka Saint Francis Memorial Hospital

Ucsf health community hospital's mission statement is caring, healing, teaching, and discovering.

Health
3
San Francisco Family Foundation
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4
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

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,…

Health
5
St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara

The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.

Health
6
St Mary's Medical Center Foundation

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…

Health
7
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
8
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
9
Ucsf Health Medical 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,…

Health
10
Marin General Hospital

To be the destination for health and healing in the north bay.

Health
11
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

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,…

Health
12
Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes

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…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Cyo of the Archdiocese of San Francisco; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY: $634,000 · OtherIMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMYDOMINICAN SISTERS VISION OF HOPE: $124,705 · OtherDOMINICAN SISTERS VISION OF HOPEDOMINICAN SISTERS OF MISSION SJ: $100,000 · OtherDOMINICAN SISTERS OF MISSION SJCATHOLIC CHARITIES SF: $100,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES SFUC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $65,000 · OtherDOMINICAN SISTERS OF MISSION: $50,000 · Other+16 more: $145,500 · Other+16 moreMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $185,000 · HealthMARIN GENERAL HO…Order of Malta Clinic of Northern California: $83,300 · HealthOrder of Malta C…PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $155,000 · EducationPRESIDENT…SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA WESTERN ASSOCIATION-USA: $60,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MARIN COUNTY: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE SAN FRANCISCO PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $15,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10,000 · Human ServicesBY THE BAY HEALTH: $9,400 · Human ServicesLITTLE WISHES: $8,000 · Human ServicesCollective Impact: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEFFERNAN GROUP FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyFINE ARTS MUSEUMS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,219,205Health$268,300Education$155,000Human Services$122,400Youth Development$90,000Philanthropy$25,000Arts & Culture$5,000

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 budgetMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $185,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $155,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCollective Impact: $90,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetOrder of Malta Clinic of Northern California: $83,300 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA WESTERN ASSOCIATION-USA: $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEFFERNAN GROUP FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MARIN COUNTY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBY THE BAY HEALTH: $9,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE WISHES: $8,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGOD SQUAD PRODUCTIONS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFINE ARTS MUSEUMS FOUNDATION: $5,000 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 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 Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
  • Who funds HEFFERNAN GROUP FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The San Francisco Fou…Marin Community Found…Heffernan Group Found…Silicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Fede…Trust Funds Incorpora…The William G Irwin C…McNabb FoundationThe Yelp FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…
The San Francisco FoundationCA27.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Lenore B & Frank M Heffernan Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lenore B & Frank M Heffernan Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Lenore B & Frank M Heffernan Family Foundation Inc 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 34 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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