· Private foundation
The Hecht Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC | $5,000 |
| LEGAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES TODAY | $3,000 |
| FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,500 |
| THE BRIGID ALLIANCE | $1,500 |
| GRAD BAG | $1,500 |
| THE PIEDMONT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CAMP TWIN LAKES | $1,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER | $1,000 |
| GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT | $1,000 |
| GEORGIA ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| THE SUMMER CAMP | $1,000 |
| GATEWAY CENTER INC | $1,000 |
| JBWS | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- FLFAMILY LEGAL CARE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +89%
- PAPRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC5× · 2019–2024 · $16k · revenue +11%
- KPKENT PLACE SCHOOL6× · 2017–2022 · $12k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- EAEMPOWERS AFRICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +298%
- IFINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +20%
- CTCARON TREATMENT CENTERone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Children's rights is a national advocacy organization that investigates, exposes, and combats violations of the rights of children. through strategic advocacy and civil rights impact litigation, children's rights holds governments…
The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
City year helps students and schools succeed, while preparing the next generation of civically engaged leaders who can work across lines of difference. partnering with teachers, teams of city year americorps members cultivate learning…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstone Family Programs and the most unlike its peers is Grad Bag 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 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 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.
40 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. 40 of the 49 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 FAMILY LEGAL CARE INC ↗
- Who funds PRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC ↗
- Who funds KENT PLACE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMER CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ↗
- Who funds LIFE CAMPS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISHNJ INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds GRAD BAG INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERS AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds Piedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds JERSEY BATTERED WOMEN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE STUDY HALL INC ↗
- Who funds THE GATEWAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
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 New York Community Trust · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Fournier Family Foundation · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Hecht 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.
- Jersey Battered Women's Service Inc — 40% of income from government
- Nourishnj Inc — 27% of income from government
- Cornerstone Family Programs — 3% of income from government
- Year Up 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.