New Jersey · Private foundation
The Heller 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.
- $530k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 54%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 54% of the organizations The Heller Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k 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 | 23 | $530k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $388k | 54% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $629k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $489k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $394k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $481k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $426k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $402k | 47% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc | $571,678 | 7 | 0% |
| Unchained at Last Inc | $375,000 | 5 | 8% |
| New York Public Radio | $350,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Grand Street Settlement Inc | $345,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Footsteps Inc | $325,000 | 6 | 2% |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $115,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Wateraid America Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Museum of Manhattan | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 56 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($691k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Heller Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Ford Foundation · Hycliff Foundation · Fjc · The New York Community Trust · Impactassetsinc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
About The Heller Foundation Inc
- How much does The Heller Foundation Inc give?
- The Heller Foundation Inc reported 23 grants totaling $529,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Heller Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (26%), Education (18%), International (15%).
- Who are The Heller Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc ($572k), Unchained at Last Inc ($375k), New York Public Radio ($350k).
- Does The Heller Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Heller 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 Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Heller Foundation Inc based?
- The Heller Foundation Inc is based in NJ.
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