Washington, D.C. · Public charity
The Heritage Foundation
To formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional american values, and a strong national defense.
- $9.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 26
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 69%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $8.7M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $414M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 69% of the organizations The Heritage Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $595k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 26 | $8.7M | 77% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $1.5M | 69% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $1.6M | 81% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $115k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $689k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $180k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $40k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $75k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Daily Signal Institute | $3,500,000 | 1 | 97% |
| Heritage Action for America | $1,600,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Trump Vance Inaugural Committee Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1% |
| 170 Freedom Milwaukee 2024 Host Committee Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Vote for America | $500,000 | 1 | 56% |
| Forge Leadership Network | $500,000 | 3 | 24% |
| Personnel Policy Operations Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Concerned Women for America | $395,000 | 4 | 3% |
| American Movement Foundation | $305,000 | 1 | 34% |
| Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs Inc | $250,000 | 2 | 4% |
Show all 49 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
The Heritage Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 46 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Donors Trust Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Adolph Coors Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · John William Pope Foundation · Servant Foundation · State Policy Network · The Roe Foundation · The Searle Freedom Trust · Atlas Economic Research Foundation · Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation
How this is measured
About The Heritage Foundation
- How much does The Heritage Foundation give?
- The Heritage Foundation reported 26 itemized grants totaling $8,720,000, out of $9,046,150 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Heritage Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (66%), Civil Rights (5%), Health (5%).
- Who are The Heritage Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Daily Signal Institute ($3.5M), Heritage Action for America ($1.6M), Trump Vance Inaugural Committee Inc ($1.0M).
- Does The Heritage Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Heritage Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc, Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated.
- Where is The Heritage Foundation based?
- The Heritage Foundation is based in DC.
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