· Private foundation
Marta Heflin 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 $10k84 grants · $410k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER INC | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHORAL SOCIETY INC | $15,000 |
| ERYC TAYLOR DANCE INC | $12,500 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL CENTER | $12,500 |
| DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC | $10,000 |
| PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC | $10,000 |
| ENVIRONMENT ADVOCATES OF NY | $10,000 |
| LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC | $10,000 |
| VISUAL AIDS FOR THE ARTS INC | $10,000 |
| ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC | $10,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| MERRILL W LINN LAND & WATER CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| NYC DANCE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| BROADWAY CARES EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +48% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
105 repeat relationships — 78 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 8 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- TVTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER8× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +59%
- NYNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC7× · 2018–2024 · $185k · revenue +9%
- LMLA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC8× · 2017–2024 · $172k · revenue +77%
Funded once
FRACTURED ATLAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +71%- AADM21one grant, 2018 · $10k
- AHANIMAL HAVEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +95%
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 Tank is a small, Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists. Our goal is to remove economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting within their…
Rattlestick Theaters mission is to produce ambitious plays to inspire empathy and provoke conversation that will lead to positive social change.
To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
The Directors Company is an award-winning not-for-profit theatre company with an extraordinary record in its mission to develop and produce groundbreaking new plays and musicals initiated and generated by outstanding directorial talent,…
Creative residency programs, artist development workshops, advanced training opportunities, and mentorship for professional actors and people who wish to participate in the performing arts.
To provoke, produce and cultivate the work of artists whose visions inspire and challenge all of us.
Artists repertory theatre's mission is to produce intimate, provacative theatre and provide a home for a diverse community of artists and audiences to take creative risks.
Production of original theater at its Brooklyn, NY space.
To develop and produce original, provocative, and authentic new plays that engage and challenge audiences in New York City and across the country.
The Bushwick Starr is an Obie Award-winning nonprofit theater that presents an annual season of new performance works. We are an organization defined by both our artists and our community, and since 2007, we have grown into a thriving…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Astoria Performing Arts Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
124 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. 124 of the 146 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 THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHORAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Eryc Taylor Dance Incorporated ↗
- Who funds MERRILL W LINN LAND & WATERWAYS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GINGOLD THEATRICAL GROUP ↗
- Who funds THE BROADWAY DANCE LAB INC ↗
- Who funds THE EPISCOPAL ACTORS' GUILD OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds VISUAL AIDS FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds VOCAL EASE INC ↗
- Who funds Pets are Wonderful Support Inc dba PAWS ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG INC ↗
- Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds RED BULL THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds TAG TREATMENT ACTION GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds MINT THEATER COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds PALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds York Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Primary Stages Company Inc ↗
- Who funds WILD BIRD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Wild Heart Ranch Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation ↗
- Who funds NYC DANCE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds KEEN THEATER COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds KEONI MOVEMENT ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HALEAKALA INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN CAT LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds SOUNDSCAPES INC ↗
- Who funds WATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC ↗
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 Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Ford Foundation · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Jerome Robbins Foundation · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · Axe-Houghton Foundation · The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc
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 Marta Heflin 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.
- Faithful Friends Inc — 15% of income from government
- American Littoral Society — 1% of income from government
- The 11TH Hour Animal Rescue Inc T/a Eleventh Hour Animal Rescue — 0% of income from government
- Hackensack Riverkeeper Inc — 0% 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.