New York · Private foundation
The Hermine and David Heller 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.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $735,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 23
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $26M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations The Hermine and David Heller Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $453k 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 | 18 | $2.3M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $2.2M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $2.8M | 58% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $2.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Museum of Contemporary Art | $2,990,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Friends of the High Line Inc | $1,050,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Third Way Institute | $1,015,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Grace Church School | $1,005,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Acumen Fund Inc | $600,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Nabu Global Inc | $550,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Morry's Camp Inc | $410,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Paul Taylor Dance Foundation Inc | $215,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Poly Prep Country Day School | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| United States Olympic and Paralympic Foundation | $175,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($792k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Hermine and David Heller Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare The Hermine and David Heller Foundation with peer funders
About The Hermine and David Heller Foundation
- How much does The Hermine and David Heller Foundation give?
- The Hermine and David Heller Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $2,265,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Hermine and David Heller Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (32%), Education (24%), Civil Rights (8%).
- Who are The Hermine and David Heller Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: New Museum of Contemporary Art ($3.0M), Friends of the High Line Inc ($1.1M), Third Way Institute ($1.0M).
- Does The Hermine and David Heller Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Hermine and David Heller Foundation 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 Hermine and David Heller Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is The Hermine and David Heller Foundation based?
- The Hermine and David Heller Foundation is based in NY.
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