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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.

$27k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$33kHealth$26kCrime & Legal$25kYouth Development$23kHuman Services$11kReligion$9kCivil Rights$7kEmployment$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$184k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC$5,000
LEGAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES TODAY$3,000
FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$2,500
CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS$2,000
THE BRIGID ALLIANCE$1,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$1,500
GRAD BAG$1,500
THE PIEDMONT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$1,000
GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT$1,000
TABLE OF HOPE$1,000
FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER$1,000
CAMP TWIN LAKES$1,000
THE SUMMER CAMP$1,000
GATEWAY CENTER INC$1,000
JBWS$1,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $500 → 6%CAMPHILL FOUNDATION: $250 → 14%LEGAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES TODAY: $3k → 20%CAMPHILL FOUNDATION: $150 → 14%LEGAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES TODAY: $3k → 20%LEGAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES TODAY: $3k → 20%LEGAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES TODAY: $3k → 20%LEGAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES TODAY: $3k → 20%Legal Information for Families Today: $2k → 20%CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $2k → 4%LEGAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES TODAY: $2k → 20%Legal Information for Families Today: $2k → 20%CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $1k → 4%TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE: $750 → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $2k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $2k → 17%GA CAMPAIGN FOR ADOLESCENT POWER & POTENTIAL: $1k → 13%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $500 → 17%The Innocence Project: $500 → 17%The Brigid Alliance: $500 → 17%GA CAMPAIGN FOR ADOLESCENT POWER & POTENTIAL: $500 → 13%GA Campaign for Adolescent Power & Potential: $500 → 13%GA Campaign for Adolescent Power & Potential: $500 → 13%GA CAMPAIGN FOR ADOLESCENT POWER & POTENTIAL: $500 → 13%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$142k · 27 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
17

Total granted

$142k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+20%

Still filing today

89%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationInternationalHealthCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther
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

  • FL
    FAMILY LEGAL CARE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +89%
  • PA
    PRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $16k · revenue +11%
  • KP
    KENT PLACE SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2022 · $12k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • EA
    EMPOWERS AFRICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +298%
  • IF
    INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +20%
  • CT
    CARON TREATMENT CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
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

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.

1
The Common Application Inc

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…

Education
2
Public Media Nj Inc

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

Arts & Culture
3
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
4
Fordham University

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.

Education
5
Common Impact Inc

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…

Unclassified
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
Children's Rights Inc

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…

Civil Rights
8
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

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.

Community Improvement
9
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
City Year Inc

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…

Unclassified
11
University of New Haven

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…

Education
12
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstone Family Programs; 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.
04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 49 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
29/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC: $16,100 · EducationPRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INCKENT PLACE SCHOOL: $11,500 · EducationKENT PLACE SCHOOLYEAR UP INC: $7,000 · EducationYEAR UP INCGRAD BAG INC: $2,500 · EducationGRAD BAG INC+3 more: $1,750 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $9,750 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODBIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS: $8,300 · OtherBIG BROTHER BIG SISTERSTHE SUMMER CAMP INC: $7,500 · OtherTHE SUMMER CAMP INCNEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC: $3,250 · OtherNEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INCFARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $2,500 · OtherCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $4,300 · OtherCAMP TWIN LAKES INCATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $3,500 · OtherATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCEMPOWERS AFRICA INC: $2,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $3,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY+14 more: $11,880 · Other+14 moreFAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $20,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY LEGAL CARE INCTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INCGeorgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc: $3,000 · Human ServicesGeorgia Campaign for Ad…CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $3,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE FAMILY PROG…+6 more: $4,150 · Human Services+6 moreFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $6,000 · HealthGEORGIA ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION INC: $4,100 · HealthPiedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc: $2,000 · HealthLIFE CAMPS INCORPORATED: $4,500 · Crime & LegalGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $4,300 · Crime & LegalTHE GATEWAY CENTER INC: $1,000 · Crime & LegalBUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC: $7,800 · ReligionNOURISHNJ INC: $3,000 · Food & NutritionINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,500 · Food & Nutrition
Education$38,850Other$55,980Human Services$34,650Health$12,100Crime & Legal$9,800Religion$7,800Food & Nutrition$4,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $20,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC: $16,100 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetKENT PLACE SCHOOL: $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC: $7,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SUMMER CAMP INC: $7,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE CAMPS INCORPORATED: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $4,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $4,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION INC: $4,100 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC: $3,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNOURISHNJ INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRAD BAG INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPiedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMPOWERS AFRICA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDY HALL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GATEWAY CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJERSEY BATTERED WOMEN'S SERVICE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE INC: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLET'S GET READY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Center for Human Rights: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPHILL FOUNDATION: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF AKIM USA INC: $360 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 New York Communit…The Imlay Foundation …Jewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…The Community Foundat…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Fournier Family F…The Sartain Lanier Fa…Community Foundation …United Way of Greater…Georgia Power Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…
The New York Community TrustNY16.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Hecht Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hecht Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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How do I get to The Hecht Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Hecht Foundation Inc 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 49 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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