Florida · Private foundation
The Heffer Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $135k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 37
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $130k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 37
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 53% of the organizations The Heffer Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 26 | $125k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $242k | 53% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $226k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $275k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $87k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $62k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montefiore Medical Center | $389,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Muhlenberg College | $165,039 | 6 | 0% |
| Hartford Hospital | $156,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Chatham University | $113,002 | 5 | 0% |
| Greenwich Country Day School Inc | $49,600 | 6 | 0% |
| Temple Beth El | $13,093 | 3 | n/a |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $9,100 | 2 | 0% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $8,425 | 3 | 0% |
| The Holocaust Museum & Education Center of Southwest Florida Inc | $7,440 | 3 | 0% |
| Making Headway Foundation Inc | $5,010 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($57k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Heffer Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
About The Heffer Family Foundation Inc
- How much does The Heffer Family Foundation Inc give?
- The Heffer Family Foundation Inc reported 37 itemized grants totaling $130,489, out of $134,813 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 37 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Heffer Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (47%), Education (29%), Philanthropy (4%).
- Who are The Heffer Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Montefiore Medical Center ($390k), Muhlenberg College ($165k), Hartford Hospital ($157k).
- Does The Heffer Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Heffer Family Foundation Inc 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 Heffer Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bessemer Giving Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, Arthur J Gallagher Foundation.
- Where is The Heffer Family Foundation Inc based?
- The Heffer Family Foundation Inc is based in FL.
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