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The Heller 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.

$186k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
34
Grants FY2025
29
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$41,791
Organizations funded a year
18 to 30
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$7.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations The Heller Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyCrime & LegalReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving31$169k23%
FY202429$173k14%
FY202329$147k28%
FY202229$153k24%
FY202127$148k26%
FY202030$155k50%
FY201918$140k11%
FY201821$137k14%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$547kPhilanthropy$424kHealth$155kFood & Nutrition$121kReligion$85kHuman Services$83kCommunity Improvement$58kSocial Science$36kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
VA
AZ
TN
LA
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 37 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Heller Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTable to Table Inc: $52,119 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTeamwork Education Foundation Inc: $46,250 over 6y, 9.0% of budgetCents Ability Inc: $37,750 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetThe Aspen Institute Inc: $36,390 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGod's Love We Deliver Inc: $22,168 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBabson College: $17,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChallenge Aspen: $17,186 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVolunteer Center of Bergen County Inc: $12,681 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $11,464 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCarbondale Arts: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTrustees of Clark University: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRiviera Beach Community Outreach Inc: $9,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children: $9,150 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJack The Bike Man Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBergen Performing Arts Center Inc: $5,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRoots & Wings Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLee Initiative Inc: $4,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStanding Together to End Sexual Assault: $3,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetConnected Warriors Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEva's Village Inc: $2,575 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Village Inc: $2,557 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Alliance of Help and Hope Inc: $1,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPlay for Pink Inc: $1,534 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ironman Foundation Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater New York: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGofundmeorg: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDec My Room Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $264 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

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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.

Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to The Heller Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Heller Family Foundation Inc

How much does The Heller Family Foundation Inc give?
The Heller Family Foundation Inc reported 34 grants totaling $185,628 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Heller Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Philanthropy (27%), Health (10%).
Who are The Heller Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Table to Table Inc ($52k), Teamwork Education Foundation Inc ($46k), Cents Ability Inc ($38k).
Does The Heller Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Heller 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 Heller Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, National Philanthropic Trust, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is The Heller Family Foundation Inc based?
The Heller Family Foundation Inc is based in NJ.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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