New York · 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.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,220,921
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 64
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Heffernan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k 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 | 29 | $2.9M | 45% |
| FY2024 | 54 | $703k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 55 | $1.4M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $993k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $317k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $596k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 64 | $2.7M | 38% |
| FY2018 | 45 | $927k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Academy of Bridgeport Inc | $1,603,921 | 8 | n/a |
| Trustees of Boston College | $1,425,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Iona Preparatory School | $1,328,921 | 5 | n/a |
| Thomas Aquinas College | $750,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Cornelia Connely Center for Education | $255,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Steer for Student Athletes Inc | $220,000 | 2 | 15% |
| San Miguel Academy of Newburgh | $215,000 | 6 | 9% |
| Providence College | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Montfort Academy | $170,000 | 4 | 3% |
| National Pku Alliance Inc | $125,000 | 6 | 3% |
Show all 80 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Heffernan Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 65 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 Heffernan Family Foundation
- How much does The Heffernan Family Foundation give?
- The Heffernan Family Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $2,874,888 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 64 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Heffernan Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (54%), Philanthropy (17%), Health (6%).
- Who are The Heffernan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Catholic Academy of Bridgeport Inc ($1.6M), Trustees of Boston College ($1.4M), Iona Preparatory School ($1.3M).
- Does The Heffernan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Heffernan Family Foundation 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 Heffernan Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Ayco Charitable Foundation, The McCooey Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Heffernan Family Foundation based?
- The Heffernan Family Foundation is based in NY.
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