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Marta Heflin Foundation at a glance

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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.

$600k
Granted FY2024still arriving
100
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% 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$2.8MAnimals$1.3MEnvironment$651kHealth$149kPublic Safety & Disaster$57kEducation$46kYouth Development$26kCivil Rights$24kOther$0
02FY2024 · 100 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k84 grants · $410k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $190k
$5,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC$25,000
VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER INC$15,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHORAL SOCIETY INC$15,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL CENTER$12,500
ERYC TAYLOR DANCE INC$12,500
DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC$10,000
NYC DANCE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC$10,000
ENVIRONMENT ADVOCATES OF NY$10,000
PETS ARE WONDERFUL SUPPORT INC$10,000
LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC$10,000
PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC$10,000
VISUAL AIDS FOR THE ARTS INC$10,000
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC$10,000
NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC$10,000
BROADWAY CARES EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $17k → 8%ALL HANDS & HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $12k → 8%MERRILL W LINN LAND & WATER CONSERVANCY: $25k → 11%DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA: $12k → 10%WINGS OF RESCUE INC: $30k → 10%ENVIRONMENT ADVOCATES OF NY: $24k → 14%EPISCOPAL ACTORS GUILD OF AMERICA INC: $15k → 17%ALL HANDS & HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $12k → 8%MERRILL W LINN LAND & WATER CONSERVANCY: $25k → 11%David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust USA Inc: $12k → 10%ENVIRONMENT ADVOCATES OF NY: $15k → 14%Episcopal Actors Guild of America Inc: $15k → 17%Merrill W Linn Land & Water Conservancy: $25k → 11%ENVIRONMENT ADVOCATES OF NY: $14k → 14%CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC: $27k → 6%AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $15k → 14%AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $13k → 14%NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $30k → 17%NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $25k → 17%NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $25k → 17%New York City Center Inc: $25k → 17%NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $25k → 17%NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $25k → 17%AMERICAN DANCE MACHINE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY FOUNDATION INC: $16k → 17%FRIENDS OF THE CHORAL SOCIETY INC: $25k → 17%FRIENDS OF THE CHORAL SOCIETY INC: $15k → 17%FRIENDS OF THE CHORAL SOCIETY INC: $15k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL CENTER: $13k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL CENTER: $13k → 17%TRANSPORT GROUP INC: $26k → 17%GINGOLD THEATRICAL GROUP INC: $14k → 17%LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC: $33k → 17%La Mama Experimental Theatre Club Inc: $30k → 17%VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER INC: $35k → 17%LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC: $30k → 17%VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER INC: $30k → 17%LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC: $25k → 17%VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER INC: $25k → 17%LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC: $15k → 17%Vivan Beaumont Theater Inc: $20k → 17%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $13k → 17%VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER INC: $20k → 17%VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER INC: $20k → 17%VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER INC: $15k → 17%ERYC TAYLOR DANCE INC: $15k → 17%BROADWAY CARES EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS: $14k → 17%ERYC TAYLOR DANCE INC: $13k → 17%TREATMENT ACTION GROUP: $16k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
NV
IN
PA
NJ
RI
CA
VA
MD
DE
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 105 repeat orgs$212k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

105
32

Total granted

$4.8M
$177k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+16%

Still filing today

89%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentEducationPublic BenefitPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • TV
    THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +59%
  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $185k · revenue +9%
  • LM
    LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $172k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • FRACTURED ATLAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +71%
  • A
    ADM21
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • UF
    US FRIENDS DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
The Tank Ltd

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Rattlestick Productions Inc

Rattlestick Theaters mission is to produce ambitious plays to inspire empathy and provoke conversation that will lead to positive social change.

—
3
En Garde Arts Inc

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.…

Arts & Culture
4
Women's Project & Productions Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Staretthe Directors Company Inc

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,…

Arts & Culture
6
The Actors Center Inc

Creative residency programs, artist development workshops, advanced training opportunities, and mentorship for professional actors and people who wish to participate in the performing arts.

Arts & Culture
7
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
8
New York Theatre Workshop Inc

To provoke, produce and cultivate the work of artists whose visions inspire and challenge all of us.

Arts & Culture
9
Artists Repertory Theatre

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.

Arts & Culture
10
The Brick Theater Inc

Production of original theater at its Brooklyn, NY space.

Arts & Culture
11
Ensemble Studio Theatre Inc

To develop and produce original, provocative, and authentic new plays that engage and challenge audiences in New York City and across the country.

Arts & Culture
12
The Bushwick Starr Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Astoria Performing Arts Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

124 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
44
Early backer (in before they grew)
120/124
Grantees still filing
88/124
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $190,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER T…NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $185,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY CENTER INCLA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC: $172,000 · Arts & CultureLA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INCFRIENDS OF THE CHORAL SOCIETY INC: $123,000 · Arts & CultureEryc Taylor Dance Incorporated: $122,500 · Arts & CultureGINGOLD THEATRICAL GROUP: $85,800 · Arts & CultureTHE EPISCOPAL ACTORS' GUILD OF AMERICA INC: $83,000 · Arts & CultureVISUAL AIDS FOR THE ARTS INC: $81,000 · Arts & CultureVOCAL EASE INC: $80,000 · Arts & Culture+50 more: $1,245,700 · Arts & Culture+50 moreAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $97,600 · AnimalsAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIA…Pets are Wonderful Support Inc dba PAWS: $75,500 · AnimalsPets are Wonderful Supp…THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $74,000 · AnimalsTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WIL…INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $69,500 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR …WINGS OF RESCUE INC: $69,000 · AnimalsWINGS OF RESCUE INCWILD BIRD FUND INC: $50,500 · AnimalsWild Heart Ranch Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation: $50,400 · AnimalsURBAN CAT LEAGUE INC: $46,800 · AnimalsWildlife Conservation Society: $46,600 · AnimalsTHE RAPTOR TRUST: $42,600 · AnimalsTHE WILDCAT SANCTUARY: $42,000 · AnimalsLUCKY CAT RESCUE: $39,200 · AnimalsSAFE HAVEN WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $39,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF GREAT SWAMP NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC: $35,000 · Animals+19 more: $267,850 · Animals+19 moreENVIRONMENT ADVOCATES OF NY: $103,000 · OtherENVIRONMENT ADVOCATE…THE NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG INC: $68,000 · OtherTHE NEW YORK FESTIVA…THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $67,500 · OtherTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE…TAG TREATMENT ACTION GROUP INC: $66,400 · OtherTAG TREATMENT ACTION…PALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE: $60,500 · OtherPALMETTO ANIMAL LEAG…BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $58,000 · OtherBROADWAY CARESEQUITY…RAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC: $45,000 · OtherWILDLIFE REHABILITATORS ASSOC OF RI: $35,000 · OtherKEONI MOVEMENT ARTS INC: $47,200 · OtherWATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC: $45,800 · Other+29 more: $327,200 · Other+29 moreMERRILL W LINN LAND & WATERWAYS CONSERVANCY: $122,500 · EnvironmentCLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC: $66,700 · EnvironmentAMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY: $53,500 · EnvironmentGreat Swamp Watershed Association: $45,100 · EnvironmentNEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentRARITAN BAYKEEPER INC: $36,700 · EnvironmentHACKENSACK RIVERKEEPER INC: $28,100 · Environment+1 more: $7,500 · EnvironmentNYC DANCE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $49,700 · EducationNew York University: $38,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $25,000 · EducationMARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE: $7,500 · EducationTHE BROADWAY DANCE LAB INC: $84,000 · Public BenefitALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $57,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Arts & Culture$2,368,000Animals$1,045,550Other$923,600Environment$400,100Education$170,200Public Benefit$84,000Public Safety & Disaster$57,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $190,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $185,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC: $172,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHORAL SOCIETY INC: $123,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetMERRILL W LINN LAND & WATERWAYS CONSERVANCY: $122,500 over 8y, 34% of budgetEryc Taylor Dance Incorporated: $122,500 over 8y, 29% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $97,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGINGOLD THEATRICAL GROUP: $85,800 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetTHE BROADWAY DANCE LAB INC: $84,000 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetTHE EPISCOPAL ACTORS' GUILD OF AMERICA INC: $83,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetVISUAL AIDS FOR THE ARTS INC: $81,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetVOCAL EASE INC: $80,000 over 8y, 7.9% of budgetPets are Wonderful Support Inc dba PAWS: $75,500 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $74,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $69,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWINGS OF RESCUE INC: $69,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG INC: $68,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $67,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetRED BULL THEATER INC: $67,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetCLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC: $66,700 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetTAG TREATMENT ACTION GROUP INC: $66,400 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetMINT THEATER COMPANY INC: $64,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetPALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE: $60,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetYork Theatre Company Inc: $60,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $58,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $57,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY: $53,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPrimary Stages Company Inc: $53,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetWILD BIRD FUND INC: $50,500 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetWild Heart Ranch Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation: $50,400 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetNYC DANCE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $49,700 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetKEEN THEATER COMPANY INC: $48,500 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetKEONI MOVEMENT ARTS INC: $47,200 over 8y, 14% of budgetHALEAKALA INC: $47,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN CAT LEAGUE INC: $46,800 over 8y, 16% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $46,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOUNDSCAPES INC: $46,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetWATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC: $45,800 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGreat Swamp Watershed Association: $45,100 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMOVEMENT RESEARCH INC: $45,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ARGENTINE TANGO INC: $43,400 over 7y, 10% of budgetLAMBDA LITERARY FOUNDATION: $42,700 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetTHE RAPTOR TRUST: $42,600 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetTHE WILDCAT SANCTUARY: $42,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetHARVESTWORKS INC: $41,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $40,500 over 6y, 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 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 MERRILL W LINN LAND & WATERWAYS CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Eryc Taylor Dance Incorporated ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 Howard Gilman Fou…The Hyde and Watson F…The Shubert Foundatio…The New York Communit…The Ford FoundationThe Fan Fox and Lesli…Lily Auchincloss Foun…The Andrew W Mellon F…Jerome Robbins Founda…The Lucille Lortel Fo…Axe-Houghton Foundati…The Harkness Foundati…
The Howard Gilman Foundation IncNY44.8× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Marta Heflin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marta Heflin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 146 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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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home