California · Private foundation
The Heck Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $350k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 107
- Grants FY2025
- 114
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 97 to 122
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations The Heck Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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 | 106 | $349k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 114 | $318k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 105 | $283k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 108 | $339k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 97 | $300k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 109 | $278k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 122 | $254k | 16% |
| FY2018 | 109 | $252k | 15% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canine Companions for Independence Inc | $452,550 | 9 | 0% |
| Sonoma State University | $300,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Redwood Empire Food Bank | $115,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Children's Museum of Sonoma County | $55,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Sonoma County Vintners Foundation | $50,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Chp 11-99 Foundation | $48,000 | 9 | 0% |
| West County Health Centers Inc | $46,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Food for Thought | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Community Support Network | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 115 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 99 recipients with no EIN on record ($676k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Heck Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 101 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Sonoma County Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Exchange Bank Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · Trione Foundation · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Foundation · Codding Foundation · Redwood Credit Union Community Fund Inc
How this is measured
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About The Heck Foundation
- How much does The Heck Foundation give?
- The Heck Foundation reported 107 grants totaling $350,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 97 and 122 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Heck Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (19%), Education (18%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are The Heck Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Canine Companions for Independence Inc ($453k), Sonoma State University ($300k), Redwood Empire Food Bank ($115k).
- Does The Heck Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Heck Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Heck Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sonoma County Community Foundation, McNabb Foundation, Sonoma County Vintners Foundation.
- Where is The Heck Foundation based?
- The Heck Foundation is based in CA.
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