· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $745k
- $50k–250k61 grants · $7.8M
- $250k+13 grants · $6.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERIT AMERICA | $1,465,000 |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC | $1,000,000 |
| SUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC | $502,200 |
| THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC | $500,000 |
| ARRAY EDUCATION INC | $500,000 |
| THE INSPIRED COMMUNITY PROJECT INC | $350,000 |
| NEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC | $301,286 |
| NYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $300,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK | $279,300 |
| FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| OVERGRAD | $250,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN | $250,000 |
| THE MARCY LAB SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| FRIENDS OF KAREN INC | $220,000 |
| AMERICA NEEDS YOU | $200,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $7.5M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
123 repeat relationships: 70 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CPCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC3× · 2021–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +0%
- RFResearch Foundation of the City University of New York4× · 2021–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +33%
- TDTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +36%
Funded once
- GSGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $500k
- BIBEHAVIORAL IDEAS LAB INCone grant, 2022 · $347k · revenue -23%
- ELEMERGING LEADERS PROGRAMone grant, 2021 · $340k
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.
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.
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
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.
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.
Luria academy is a child-centered environment dedicated to academic excellence and a sophisticated knowledge of jewish text and jewish heritage. located in the prospect heights neighborhood of brookly, luria academy is a jewish…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
(see schedule o)
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
How this is measured
179 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. 179 of the 270 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MERIT AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KAREN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA NEEDS YOU ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds READ ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds ARRAY EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds ROW NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY ACADEMY COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds NPOWER INC ↗
- Who funds SUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EXPANDED SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds NEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds ST NICKS ALLIANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMONPOINT NY INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SI INC ↗
- Who funds The Inspired Community Project Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Heckscher Foundation for Children funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Heckscher Foundation for Children. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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