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Solomon and Clara Heisler Family Foundation at a glance

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Solomon and Clara Heisler Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.1M
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Philanthropy$2.6MReligion$653kEducation$152kArts & Culture$14kHealth$4kOther$0
02FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,050,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHON FAMILY FOUNDATION$1,050,000
W FAMILY FOUNDATION$1,050,000
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 (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YESHIVA SHOR YOSHUV: $5k → 6%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF: $4k → 9%RABBI JACOB JOSEPH SCHOOL: $17k → 11%YESHIVA FAR ROCKAWAY: $20k → 13%CONGREGATION BNEI YERUSHALAYIM: $8k → 14%UTA MESIVTA OF KIRYAS JOEL: $100k → 14%BNOS YAAKOV: $11k → 20%TORAH INSTITUTE: $7k → 7%HANNA SACKS BAIS YAAKOV: $5k → 14%YESHIVA BAIS AHARON: $25k → 11%MESIVTA OF CLIFTON: $10k → 12%YESHIVA NER ISRAEL: $25k → 11%AHAVAS CHAIM: $4k → 6%YESHIVA NACHLAS MOSHE: $5k → 14%CONGREGATION YETEV LEV D'SATMAR: $10k → 20%YESHIVA OHR BORUCH: $13k → 14%UTA LAKEWOOD: $12k → 11%YESHIVA OF CLIFTON: $5k → 12%SATMAR KOLLEL: $1k → 20%MESIVTA OF LAKEWOOD: $8k → 11%SEE ATTACHED: $4.9M → 20%SEE ATTACHED: $3.9M → 20%W FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1.1M → 20%SCHON FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1.1M → 20%SEE ATTACHED: $445k → 20%CONGREGATION ATZEI CHAIM-SIGET: $51k → 20%VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS: $11k → 20%TZEDAKAS HAIR: $19k → 20%BAIS YAAKOV OF 18TH AVE: $10k → 20%YESHIVA TORAH TEMIMAH: $37k → 20%BNOS YISROEL: $2k → 20%YESHIVA TORAH VODAATH: $8k → 20%MASORES BAIS YAAKOV: $19k → 20%BETH JACOB DAY SCHOOL: $9k → 20%BAIS YAAKOV D'RAV MEIR: $3k → 20%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.
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.

8%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$291k · 10 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2021, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
46

Total granted

$291k
$1.1M

Still filing today

0%
4%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21
ReligionEducationHealthOther
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

  • UM
    UTA Mesivta of KJ
    2× · 2018–2019 · $57k
  • YM
    Yeshiva Minchas Eliezer
    2× · 2018–2019 · $50k
  • BT
    Brooklyn Talmudical Academy
    2× · 2018–2019 · $50k

Funded once

  • WF
    Weingarten Family Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $500k
  • UT
    U T A MESIVTA OF KIRYAS JOEL
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • CA
    CONGREGATION ATZEI CHAIM SIGET
    one grant, 2017 · $51k
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
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 58 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/4
Grantees still filing
2/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

W FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1,050,000 · OtherW FAMILY FOUNDATIONSCHON FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1,050,000 · OtherSCHON FAMILY FOUNDATIONWeingarten Family Foundation: $500,000 · OtherWeingarten Family Foundation+52 more: $884,465 · Other+52 moreYESHIVA OF FAR ROCKAWAY: $19,800 · ReligionMESIVTA OF CLIFTON INC: $10,000 · EducationAHAVAS CHAIM INC: $4,000 · Health
Other$3,484,465Religion$19,800Education$10,000Health$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSCHON FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1,050,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetYESHIVA OF FAR ROCKAWAY: $19,800 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMESIVTA OF CLIFTON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAHAVAS CHAIM INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 SCHON FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA OF FAR ROCKAWAY ↗
  • Who funds MESIVTA OF CLIFTON 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 Ojc FundJewish Communal FundThe Ganger Foundation…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ojc FundNY21.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ganger Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Solomon and Clara Heisler Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Solomon and Clara Heisler Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Solomon and Clara Heisler Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Solomon and Clara Heisler Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 58 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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