Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Hearn Educational Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $83k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations The Hearn Educational Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $83k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $87k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $90k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $108k | 64% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $82k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $85k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $77k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $75k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Delaware | $79,450 | 3 | 0% |
| Syracuse University | $14,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Methodist University Inc | $14,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Elizabethtown College | $12,450 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Lynchburg | $10,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Wilmington University Inc | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Liberty University Inc | $9,500 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Pittsburgh | $9,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Pensacola Christian College Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Georgetown University | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Delaware | $79,450 | 3 | 0% |
| Syracuse University | $14,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Methodist University Inc | $14,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Elizabethtown College | $12,450 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Lynchburg | $10,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Wilmington University Inc | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Liberty University Inc | $9,500 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Pittsburgh | $9,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Pensacola Christian College Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Georgetown University | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| James Madison University | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wesleyan College | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston College | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stevenson University | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Washington College | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Widener University | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 57 recipients with no EIN on record ($563k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Hearn Educational Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Howard & Edna Postles Scholarship Fund · Tulsa Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Hearn Educational Fund
- How much does The Hearn Educational Fund give?
- The Hearn Educational Fund reported 9 grants totaling $83,220 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Hearn Educational Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
- Who are The Hearn Educational Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Delaware ($79k), Syracuse University ($15k), Methodist University Inc ($14k).
- Does The Hearn Educational Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Hearn Educational Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Hearn Educational Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Howard & Edna Postles Scholarship Fund, Tulsa Community Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Hearn Educational Fund based?
- The Hearn Educational Fund is based in PA.
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