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Marieluise Hessel 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.

$539k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$520,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$44M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Marieluise Hessel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$539k60%
FY20236$653k67%
FY20228$26M75%
FY20213$1.7M67%
FY20201$1.7M0%
FY20191$1.2M0%
FY20181$1.1M0%
FY20171$784kn/a
96% 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$34MPhilanthropy$11kHealth$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Marieluise Hessel Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Red Hook Responds Incorporated$9,00032%
The Drawing Center Inc$6,00020%
Participant Inc$5,00011%
White Columns Inc$5,00010%
Arttable Inc$5,00011%
Artists Space Inc$3,00010%
The Studio Museum in Harlem$2,02610%
The Ascienzo Family Foundation$2,00011%
Independent Curators International$1,00010%
Swiss Institute$1,00010%
Performa Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($34M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marieluise Hessel Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRed Hook Responds Incorporated: $9,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetThe Drawing Center Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetParticipant Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWhite Columns Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetArttable Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetArtists Space Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Studio Museum in Harlem: $2,026 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ascienzo Family Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIndependent Curators International: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSwiss Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPerforma Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts IncNY17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Via Art Fund Inc · Arison Arts Foundation · The Judelson Family Foundation · Ag Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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About Marieluise Hessel Foundation

How much does Marieluise Hessel Foundation give?
Marieluise Hessel Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $538,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Marieluise Hessel Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%), Philanthropy (0%), Health (0%).
Who are Marieluise Hessel Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ($10k), Red Hook Responds Incorporated ($9k), The Drawing Center Inc ($6k).
Does Marieluise Hessel Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Marieluise Hessel Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Marieluise Hessel Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc, Via Art Fund Inc, Arison Arts Foundation.
Where is Marieluise Hessel Foundation based?
Marieluise Hessel Foundation is based in FL.

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 16 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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