· Private foundation
The Heffernan Family Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $161k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IONA PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $1,220,921 |
| CATHOLIC ACADEMY OF BRIDGEPORT | $1,130,921 |
| THE CARDINAL'S ANNUAL STEWARDSHIP APPEAL | $300,000 |
| ST THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE | $45,696 |
| NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC | $30,000 |
| SPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| PART OF THE SOLUTION INC | $20,000 |
| STEER FOR STUDENT ATHLETES INC | $10,000 |
| DANNY BUTLER MEMORIAL FUND INC | $10,000 |
| FRANCISCAN FRIARS OF THE ATONEMENT | $10,000 |
| SWIM ACROSS AMERICA | $10,000 |
| SISTERS OF LIFE | $8,000 |
| INNER-CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $5,000 |
| CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
76 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 60 since wound down; 13 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $388k 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
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE7× · 2018–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +58%- TATHOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE4× · 2018–2023 · $750k · revenue +9%
- SMSAN MIGUEL ACADEMY OF NEWBURGH6× · 2018–2024 · $215k · revenue +57%
Funded once
PROVIDENCE COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +14%- COCONVENT OF THE SACRED HEARTone grant, 2019 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $50k
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Laboure college provides high-quality education and prepares women and men for careers in nursing and allied health fields.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
We, st. joseph's medical and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's medical is a member of st. joseph's health and trinity health.
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Albert F Egan Jr & Dorothy H Egan F. 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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 131 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
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 RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds STEER FOR STUDENT ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL ACADEMY OF NEWBURGH ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MONTFORT ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Boys Hope Girls Hope of NY Inc ↗
- Who funds Desda's Grate Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PART OF THE SOLUTION ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Foundations in Education Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DANNY BUTLER MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS OF PORT CHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds IONA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Swim Across America Inc ↗
- Who funds SAIL TO PREVAIL ↗
- Who funds Special Operations Fund ↗
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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The McCooey Charitable Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Joyce Charitable Fund · The Penates Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Sonja Foundation · The Jean & Henry Pollak Fund Inc
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 Heffernan Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Jupiter Medical Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital — 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.