Delaware · Private foundation
Night Heron 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.
- $912k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 8
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Night Heron Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 5 | $912k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $757k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $785k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $598k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $597k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $105k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $663k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $580k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Brook Foundation Inc | $1,703,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Gallery North Inc | $1,066,000 | 7 | 27% |
| The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc | $754,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Island Harvest Ltd | $340,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Children and Screens-Institute of Digital Media and Child Development Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 12% |
| Pivot Works Inc | $254,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Oak Park & River Forest Hs Alumni Associ | $162,000 | 2 | 86% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities New York Metro Inc | $108,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Student Freedom Initiative Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Long Island Cares Inc | $97,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Brook Foundation Inc | $1,703,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Gallery North Inc | $1,066,000 | 7 | 27% |
| The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc | $754,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Island Harvest Ltd | $340,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Children and Screens-Institute of Digital Media and Child Development Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 12% |
| Pivot Works Inc | $254,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Oak Park & River Forest Hs Alumni Associ | $162,000 | 2 | 86% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities New York Metro Inc | $108,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Student Freedom Initiative Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Long Island Cares Inc | $97,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Xavier University of Louisiana | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Arts Oglethorpe Inc | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Night Heron Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Allen & Eve Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Night Heron Foundation
- How much does Night Heron Foundation give?
- Night Heron Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $912,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Night Heron Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (40%), Arts & Culture (22%), Science & Tech (15%).
- Who are Night Heron Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Stony Brook Foundation Inc ($1.7M), Gallery North Inc ($1.1M), The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc ($754k).
- Does Night Heron Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Night Heron 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 Night Heron Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Allen & Eve Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Night Heron Foundation based?
- Night Heron Foundation is based in DE.
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