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The Heckscher Foundation for Children
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $405k
- $50k–250k66 grants · $9.5M
- $250k+7 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC | $750,000 |
| THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $700,000 |
| ARRAY EDUCATION INC | $500,000 |
| MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $300,000 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $300,000 |
| EXPANDED SCHOOLS INC | $250,000 |
| FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $246,000 |
| UASPIRE INC | $241,649 |
| FRIENDS OF KAREN INC | $220,000 |
| FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $200,000 |
| NPOWER INC | $200,000 |
| EAST SIDE HOUSE SETTLEMENT | $200,000 |
| NEW YORK EARLY CHILDHOOD PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE | $200,000 |
| THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC | $200,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $4.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
105 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 30 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.5M 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
- CPCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC3× · 2021–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +0%
- RFResearch Foundation of the City University of New York3× · 2021–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +33%
- FAFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +56%
Funded once
- GSGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $500k
- BIBEHAVIORAL IDEAS LAB INCone grant, 2022 · $347k · revenue -23%
- ELEMERGING LEADERS PROGRAMone grant, 2021 · $340k
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.
School in the square ("s2") engages, educates and empowers adolescents to respond mindfully and creatively to life's opportunities and challenges. s2 is a place where students, families and educators are seen, heard, and inspired and where…
Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
Uncommon new york city charter schools operates outstanding urban public schools that close the opportunity gap and prepare students from low-income communities to graduate from college.
Provide transformative educational experiences that empower underserved students
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…
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.
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
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…
To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…
Great oaks charter school is a public school providing high-dosage tutoring, data-driven learning strategies & extra-curricular opportunities to students in grades 6-12 to ensure success in the career or college of their choice. great oaks…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Expanded Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Maria I New Childrens Hormone Foundation Inc Co R Tucker Tucker & Latifi Llp. 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 25 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
156 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. 156 of the 232 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds READ ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KAREN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA NEEDS YOU ↗
- Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY ACADEMY COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds ROW NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds EXPANDED SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds NPOWER INC ↗
- Who funds THE GO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds ARRAY EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds ITHAKA HARBORS INC ↗
- Who funds UASPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CENTRAL PARK EAST HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds TEACHING MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN ↗
- Who funds The Education Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL 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: Pinkerton Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Tiger Foundation · Carson Family Charitable Trust · Altman Foundation · Gates Foundation · Gray Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Arbor Brothers Inc Dba Arbor Rising · New Schools Fund
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 Heckscher Foundation for Children 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Kristi House Inc — 49% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Miami Music Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Achievement First 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.
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