How much does Robert and Mary Jane Hekemian Foundation Inc give?

Robert and Mary Jane Hekemian Foundation Inc reported 18 grants totaling $227,277 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Robert and Mary Jane Hekemian Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (39%), Health (27%), Education (23%).

Who are Robert and Mary Jane Hekemian Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Church of the Risen King ($646k), The Valley Hospital Foundation Inc ($125k), Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine ($125k).

Does Robert and Mary Jane Hekemian Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Robert and Mary Jane Hekemian Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Robert and Mary Jane Hekemian Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Columbia Bank Foundation.

Where is Robert and Mary Jane Hekemian Foundation Inc based?

Robert and Mary Jane Hekemian Foundation Inc is based in NJ.

Robert and Mary Jane Hekemian Foundation Inc

Robert and Mary Jane Hekemian Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Robert and Mary Jane Hekemian Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$227k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$84k

Largest

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.

Religion$729kHealth$508kEducation$427kArts & Culture$80kFood & Nutrition$39kYouth Development$36kInternational$19kHuman Services$17kOther$0

02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k12 grants · $37k
$10k–50k4 grants · $57k
$50k–250k2 grants · $134k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CHURCH OF THE RISEN KING	$83,750
HACKENSACK MERIDIAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE	$50,000
THE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$25,000
HUDSON FARM FOUNDATION	$12,000
HACKENSACK UNIV MEDICAL CTR FDTN	$10,000
SADDLE RIVER DAY SCHOOL	$10,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA	$9,000
TROOP B HEALTH & WELFARE FUND	$5,000
ARMENIA TREE PROJECT	$5,000
SADDLE RIVER FIRE DEPARTMENT	$3,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL	$2,500
THE XO WORLD PROJECT	$2,500
SISTERS OF CHARITY OF SAINT ELIZABETH	$2,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN	$2,000
TEAM GOOSE ALS FOUNDATION	$2,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.6M · 19 repeat orgs$243k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.6M

$228k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+28%

Still filing today

53%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyArts & 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

TV
THE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
2× · 2023–2024 · $125k · revenue +70%
VU
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
5× · 2018–2022 · $125k · revenue +39%
SR
SADDLE RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC
2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +17%

Funded once

LC
LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +45%
HP
HACKENSACK PERFORMING ARTS
one grant, 2017 · $50k
UO
UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $16k · revenue ×23

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.

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Salem Health Foundation

The salem health foundation is dedicated to raising, managing and distributing funds to help salem health achieve its mission of improving the health and well-being of the people and community it serves.

Health

Staten Island University Hospital Foundation

The mission of staten island university hospital's foundation is to achieve philanthropic relationships for support and endowment, providing highest quality care, services and state of the art equipment. philanthropy has played an…

Health

Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Nercessian Foundation Inc. 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

34 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. 34 of the 69 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

32/34

Grantees still filing

22/34

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,294,069Education$279,082Health$157,000Arts & Culture$75,000Food & Nutrition$33,000Human Services$30,000International$17,500

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

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.

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.

Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ16.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Columbia Bank Foundation · The Marron Foundation Inc · Nazarian Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · 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 Robert and Mary Jane Hekemian Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert and Mary Jane Hekemian Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

10get 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 · 0–30%

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.

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