New York · Private foundation
The Heckscher Foundation for Children
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $15M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 122
- Grants FY2025
- 93
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $87,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,465,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 80 to 100
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $397M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations The Heckscher Foundation for Children funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 107 | $15M | 35% |
| FY2024 | 93 | $13M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 100 | $15M | 42% |
| FY2022 | 86 | $12M | 43% |
| FY2021 | 83 | $12M | 48% |
| FY2020 | 80 | $8.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $3,000,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Research Foundation of the City University of New York | $2,012,411 | 4 | 0% |
| The Door - a Center of Alternatives Inc | $1,565,020 | 6 | 1% |
| Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc | $1,500,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Merit America | $1,481,350 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Karen Inc | $1,335,000 | 6 | 6% |
| America Needs You | $1,235,760 | 6 | 7% |
| The Brooklyn College Foundation Inc | $1,195,432 | 3 | 4% |
| Read Alliance Inc | $1,151,208 | 4 | 12% |
| Arbor Brothers Inc Dba Arbor Rising | $1,150,000 | 2 | 25% |
Show all 180 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 86 recipients with no EIN on record ($15M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Heckscher Foundation for Children supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 164 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
Compare The Heckscher Foundation for Children with peer funders
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About The Heckscher Foundation for Children
- How much does The Heckscher Foundation for Children give?
- The Heckscher Foundation for Children reported 122 grants totaling $14,743,356 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 80 and 100 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Heckscher Foundation for Children fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), Employment (11%), Recreation & Sports (9%).
- Who are The Heckscher Foundation for Children's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Central Park Conservancy Inc ($3.0M), Research Foundation of the City University of New York ($2.0M), The Door - a Center of Alternatives Inc ($1.6M).
- Does The Heckscher Foundation for Children fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Heckscher Foundation for Children accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Heckscher Foundation for Children?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pinkerton Foundation, Robin Hood Foundation, The Hyde and Watson Foundation.
- Where is The Heckscher Foundation for Children based?
- The Heckscher Foundation for Children is based in NY.
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