· Private foundation
The Jeanine Heller Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $757k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $604k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUTHERAN DISASTER RESPONSE-ELCA GIFT PROCESSING CENTER | $100,000 |
| KOINONIA-MARTIN LUTHER CAMP CORP | $100,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NASSAU COUNTY | $75,000 |
| LONG ISLAND CARES | $66,627 |
| LONG BEACH HUMANE SOCIETY | $60,028 |
| RACE TRACK CHAPLAINCY OF AMERICA | $52,000 |
| KOINONIA-MARTIN LUTHER CAMP CORP | $50,000 |
| ODYSSEY TEEN CAMP | $50,000 |
| LONG ISLAND COUNCIL OF CHURCHES | $50,000 |
| ST ANDREWS EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $44,000 |
| CAMP ALDERSGATE | $30,000 |
| THE SAFE CENTER LI | $30,000 |
| MOMMAS HOUSE | $30,000 |
| BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES | $25,000 |
| SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL HOUSE | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $249k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- LILong Island Cares Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $179k · revenue +23%
- PLPINECREST LUTHERAN LEADERSHIP MINISTRIES INC2× · 2021–2022 · $135k · revenue +45% · 80% of their budget
- RTRACE TRACK CHAPLAINCY OF AMERICA METROPOLITAN NEW YORK DIVISION3× · 2022–2024 · $102k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- NLNYU LANGONE WINTHROP HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $50k
- UCUNITED CHURCH OF CHRISTone grant, 2023 · $50k
- LALITTLE ANGEL SERVICE DOGSone grant, 2023 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.
Please see attached report.
Vision: a world where no child's life is torn apart by war.children in conflict works tirelessly to restore hope, safety and childhoods to children whose lives are affected by war.
THE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS ACTIVELY RESCUES CATS AND DOGS, PROVIDES QUALITY CARE AND OFFERS SANCTUARY UNTIL LOVING HOMES CAN BE FOUND. ARF's work with animals, within our community and throughout the organization is guided by…
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Options for community living, inc. is dedicated to supporting all individuals and families in developing their fullest potential for independent living. the organization provides services that prepare participants for the demands and…
To provide free, high quality, confidential and non-judgmental services and programs to support and empower long islanders at critical times in their lives.
Provide free legal and social work advocacy for children in abuse, neglect, foster care, termination of parental rights, visitation, custody, adoption, youth justice and related cases.
The nassau county society for the prevention of cruelty to animals is a 501(c)(3) organized to protect animals from abuse and neglect.(see schedule o)the nassau county society for the prevention of cruelty to animals is a 501(c)(3)…
To provide free legal assistance in non-criminal matters to persons meeting financial eligibility requirements or having other special needs.
To unite public, private and community partners to ensure safety, healing and justice for children and families impacted by violence, exploitation and abuse.
Friends for animal rescue ny, inc. is a nonprofit organization that furthers the interest of animals in the new york state area and improves their quality of life by supporting medical care, enrichment activities, training and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 86 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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- Who funds RACE TRACK CHAPLAINCY OF AMERICA METROPOLITAN NEW YORK DIVISION ↗
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- Who funds The Safe Center LI Inc ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ODYSSEY TEEN CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS CAMPAIGN FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP DUDLEY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP GOOD MOURNING INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CATS OF LONG ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Tamassee DAR School Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Fred I & Gilda Nobel Foundation Inc · The Marilyn Lichtman Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Jeanine Heller Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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