· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FRANCISCAN FRIARS OF THE ATONEMENT | $10,000 |
| DANNY BUTLER MEMORIAL FUND INC | $10,000 |
| SWIM ACROSS AMERICA | $10,000 |
| SISTERS OF LIFE | $8,000 |
| CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $5,000 |
| WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
69 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. 69 of the 131 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
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 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 NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND 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 Foundations in Education Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
- 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 Huggins Hospital ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Heffernan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Heffernan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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