· Private foundation
The Bruce J Heim Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $8,500 |
| FIRST LOUISIANA-MISSISSIPPI INC | $7,500 |
| STUDENTS TO SCHOLARS | $7,500 |
| BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION NW LA | $4,060 |
| LOUISIANA YOUTH SEMINARS INC | $4,000 |
| GLOBAL ARTS CORPORATION | $3,500 |
| SAN DIEGO CIVIC YOUTH BALLET INC | $3,000 |
| THE POSSE FOUNDATION NEW ORLEANS | $3,000 |
| MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| JEWISH HOME LIFECARE MANHATTAN | $3,000 |
| JEFFERSON DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS-WWNO-FM RADIO | $2,500 |
| FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY-METROPOLITAN CAMPUS | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% 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 +34% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND7× · 2019–2025 · $46k · revenue +46%
- FLFIRST LOUISIANA-MISSISSIPPI INC6× · 2019–2025 · $41k · revenue +225%
- LYLOUISIANA YOUTH SEMINAR INC7× · 2019–2025 · $26k · revenue +19%
Funded once
NEW JERSEY SEEDS INCone grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue +2%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $8k
- HIHOPE IGNITES BALTIMORE INCone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +7%
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.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Kid smart's mission is to engage children and educators in dynamic, creative, and relevant learning through the arts. we do this through integrating the arts into public schools, making them more joyful and effective places to learn.
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The mission of allegro charter school of music is to produce creative thinkers and inspired members of society through the infusion of music into an academically challenging environment.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Jersey Seeds Inc and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
79 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. 79 of the 120 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 THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds FIRST LOUISIANA-MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS TO SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA YOUTH SEMINAR INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY SEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds LIVE OAK WILDERNESS CAMP ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOME LIFECARE MANHATTAN ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds NEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds STEM LIBRARY LAB ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY STOREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC COMPETITION ↗
- Who funds STARTING RIGHT NOW ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ARTS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE VISIONS ↗
- Who funds ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds Tennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary Festival ↗
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: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Keller Family Foundation · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Collins C Diboll Private Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Cahn Family Foundation · The Mary Freeman Wisdom Foundation · The Azby Fund · Forekids Foundations Inc Dba Zurich Classic of New Orleans · Pro Bono Publico Foundation
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 The Bruce J Heim Foundation 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.
- Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc — 34% of income from government
- Round House Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
- Wide Angle Youth Media Inc — 3% of income from government
- Fairleigh Dickinson University — 2% of income from government
- Klein Memorial Auditorium Foundationinc — 1% 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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