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The Heyman Evergreen Foundation at a glance

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The Heyman Evergreen Foundation

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.

$148k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

60% of The Heyman Evergreen Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 13 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Heyman Evergreen Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $148k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’22
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’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$5.6MArts & Culture$754kPhilanthropy$428kHealth$111kPublic Benefit$103kReligion$16kInternational$5kHuman Services$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $63k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EAST HAMPTON LIBRARY$50,000
NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY$23,480
TULSA AREA UNITED WAY$20,000
HARVARD CRIMSON$10,000
PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$6,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$5,000
THE HARMONIE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION$5,000
EAST HAMPTON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$3,000
ASCENSION ST JOHN FOUNDATION$2,500
TOWN OF PALM BEACH UNITED WAY$2,000
PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION$2,000
OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE$1,500
TEMPLE ISRAEL$1,000
INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE INC$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH CHILDRENS REGIONAL SERVICE: $1k → 15%JEWISH CHILDRENS REGIONAL SERVICE: $1k → 15%JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
PA
OK
LA
MS
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 22 repeat orgs$119k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
16

Total granted

$1.1M
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-19%
-3%

Still filing today

68%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • EH
    EAST HAMPTON LIBRARY
    6× · 2019–2025 · $260k · revenue +33%
  • TULSA AREA UNITED WAY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $95k · revenue +5%
  • TO
    Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc
    3× · 2021–2024 · $6k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • TM
    The Macular Eye Institute Research Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • ME
    MACKOOL EYE INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF AMERICAN FINANCE
    one grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue -3%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
4
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
5
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
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The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
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New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
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Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
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Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
12
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International House; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 54 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
34/37
Grantees still filing
15/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5,525,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA+1 more: $1,000 · EducationEAST HAMPTON LIBRARY: $260,000 · OtherEAST HAMPT…NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM & LIBRARY: $103,110 · OtherNEW YORK H…ASCENSION ST JOHN FOUNDATION: $102,500 · OtherASCENSION …TULSA AREA UNITED WAY: $95,000 · OtherTULSA AREA…The Macular Eye Institute Research Foundation: $25,000 · Other+26 more: $94,400 · Other+26 moreTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $300,000 · PhilanthropyBOOKER T WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $54,000 · PhilanthropyATLANTIC GOLF CLUB EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $20,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $11,500 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC: $281,067 · Arts & CultureNew York Historical Society: $51,960 · Arts & CultureWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $24,835 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $12,637 · Arts & CultureEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $63,000 · HealthMACKOOL EYE INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Health+3 more: $4,100 · HealthINTERNATIONAL HOUSE: $5,000 · InternationalJEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE: $3,000 · Human ServicesSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $1,000 · Human Services
Education$5,526,000Other$680,010Philanthropy$385,500Arts & Culture$370,499Health$77,100International$5,000Human Services$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5,525,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC: $281,067 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetEAST HAMPTON LIBRARY: $260,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetTULSA AREA UNITED WAY: $95,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $63,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetBOOKER T WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $54,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $51,960 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $24,835 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTIC GOLF CLUB EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetOKLAHOMA FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE: $11,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HARVARD CRIMSON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMUSEUM OF AMERICAN FINANCE: $9,400 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHARMONIE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PENN CLUB OF NEW YORK INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,137 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tulsa: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN HOPE FRANKLIN CENTER FOR RECONCILIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH DEVELOPMENT OF TULSA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Charles and Lynn Schu…The Anne and Henry Za…Mervin Bovaird Founda…Tulsa Community Found…Ruth Nelson Family Fo…Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Bessemer Giving F…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family FoundationOK19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Ruth Nelson Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Heyman Evergreen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Heyman Evergreen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Tulsa Day Center Inc: 9% of income from government
  • The University of Tulsa: 5% of income from government
  • The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Heyman Evergreen Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Heyman Evergreen Foundation 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.

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 54 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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