· Private foundation
The Bruce J Heim Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| JEWISH HOME LIFECARE MANHATTAN | $3,000 |
| THE POSSE FOUNDATION NEW ORLEANS | $3,000 |
| JEFFERSON DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE | $3,000 |
| ASU FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| ALICE FERGUSON FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
How this is measured
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%- FFIRSTone grant, 2019 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $8k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
79 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. 79 of the 120 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 LIVE OAK WILDERNESS CAMP ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY SEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOME LIFECARE MANHATTAN ↗
- Who funds NEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- 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 ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE VISIONS ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds Tennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary Festival ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bruce J Heim Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bruce J Heim Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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