· Private foundation
The Heller Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART | $15,000 |
| CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| THE ROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FRANKLIN'S CHARGE | $5,000 |
| RISE EDUCATION FUND | $5,000 |
| FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK - POWER OF TWO | $5,000 |
| THE PARTNERS PROGRAM AT COLLEGE PREP | $3,500 |
| EQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION | $2,500 |
| UCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION | $1,000 |
| AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| MONTCLAIR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| EAST BAY ASIAN YOUTH CENTER | $1,000 |
| ASIAN HEALTH SERVICES | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- STSTUDIO TENN THEATRE COMPANY4× · 2019–2023 · $90k · revenue +76%
- CUCUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $65k · revenue +81%
- BOBATTLE OF FRANKLIN TRUST INC3× · 2021–2023 · $65k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- POPOWER OF TWOone grant, 2020 · $8k
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INCone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +10%- HCHARPETH CONSERVANCYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +117%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Roland Park Community Foundation Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 42 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 STUDIO TENN THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BATTLE OF FRANKLIN TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN ↗
- Who funds HARPETH CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Ground Game Fund ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RISE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY ASIAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLINS CHARGE INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds Destiny Arts Center ↗
- Who funds HARD BARGAIN MT HOPE REDEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FRANKLIN PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds African American Heritage Society Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
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 Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Pam Lewis Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc · The Frist Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Servant Foundation · Christian B Currey Family Foundation · Franklin Noon Rotary Charitable Foundation Inc · Sandra Schatten Foundation
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 Heller 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Tampa Museum of Art Inc — 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.