· Private foundation
Robert and Mary Jane Hekemian Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k12 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $57k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $134k
| 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 |
| SADDLE RIVER DAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| HACKENSACK UNIV MEDICAL CTR FDTN | $10,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $9,000 |
| ARMENIA TREE PROJECT | $5,000 |
| TROOP B HEALTH & WELFARE FUND | $5,000 |
| SADDLE RIVER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $3,000 |
| THE XO WORLD PROJECT | $2,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| TEAM GOOSE ALS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SISTERS OF CHARITY OF SAINT ELIZABETH | $2,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $2,000 |
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.
Your 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 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 +39% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- VUVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY5× · 2018–2022 · $125k · revenue +39%
- TVTHE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $125k · revenue +70%
- SRSADDLE RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- LCLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +45%
- HPHACKENSACK PERFORMING ARTSone grant, 2017 · $50k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $16k · revenue ×23
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc and 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.
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 43 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 69 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 HACKENSACK MERIDIAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SADDLE RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON FARM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GO4THEGOAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HO-HO-KUS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUDSON FARM CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds National Association for Armenian Studies and Research Inc ↗
- Who funds BERGEN FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds TROOP B HEALTH & WELFARE FUND ↗
- Who funds DEPARTMENT OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES ↗
- Who funds ONE MIND ↗
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: 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
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 Robert and Mary Jane Hekemian Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bergen Family Center — 25% of income from government
- Saddle River Day School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hovnanian School 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.
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