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The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Family 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.

$4.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
74
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$12MReligion$6.9MHealth$2.6MEducation$2.5MPublic Benefit$750kInternational$545kPhilanthropy$368kCrime & Legal$275kOther$0
02FY2025 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $386k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $2.1M
  • $250k+6 grants · $1.9M
$18,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$149M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER$500,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$400,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$250,000
FIFTH AVENUE SYNAGOGUE$250,000
THE GIVING BACK FUND$250,000
CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY$250,000
ZICHRON AVOT$200,000
THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS$200,000
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART$200,000
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND$200,000
MILLBROOK SCHOOL$175,000
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND$110,000
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART$100,000
SIXPOINT INC$100,000
TISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC$100,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–25, $143k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES: $4k → 17%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 11%COMMUNITY SECURITY SERVICE: $10k → 17%DOROT INC: $7k → 17%DOROTINC: $2k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $100k → 17%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

MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MD
DE
NC
DC
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25M · 50 repeat orgs$5.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
64

Total granted

$25M
$5.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
0%

Still filing today

64%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $791k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • MO
    Museum of Modern Art
    6× · 2020–2025 · $8.2M · revenue +38%
  • NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +88%
  • NL
    NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
    one grant, 2023 · $2.1M
  • DU
    DUKE UNIVERSITY (DUKEUNI)
    one grant, 2023 · $260k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
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.

1
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
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
3
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
4
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
5
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
6
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
7
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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8
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
9
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
10
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
11
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Tikvah Fund. 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

77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 139 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/77
Grantees still filing
44/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIFTH AVENUE SYNAGOGUE: $3,828,235 · OtherFIFTH AVENUE SYNAGOGUETHE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (MOMA): $2,070,000 · OtherTHE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (MOMA)ZICHRON AVOT: $1,039,200 · OtherZICHRON AVOTNYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER: $1,000,000 · OtherNYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTERYALE UNIVERSITY: $800,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYCHABAD AT DUKE UG INC: $737,000 · OtherPALM BEACH ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE INC: $698,400 · OtherOHR TORAH - THE JEWISH CONVERSATION: $510,000 · Other+74 more: $3,890,520 · Other+74 moreMuseum of Modern Art: $8,208,786 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern ArtNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $1,049,500 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC+13 more: $1,088,088 · Arts & Culture+13 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY: $780,000 · EducationABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL: $400,000 · EducationSIXPOINT INC: $186,000 · EducationMILLBROOK SCHOOL: $175,000 · EducationRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $115,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationTHE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL: $86,925 · EducationINDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC: $80,000 · EducationTIKVA CORP: $75,000 · Education+9 more: $171,300 · EducationNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $1,000,000 · HealthTISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC: $875,000 · Health+7 more: $69,400 · HealthPARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC: $749,892 · EmploymentJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $310,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $250,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $98,600 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $39,600 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $26,800 · Philanthropy+2 more: $18,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $318,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $120,000 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $42,885 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $35,000 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INC: $25,000 · International+2 more: $23,400 · International
Other$14,573,355Arts & Culture$10,346,374Education$2,169,225Health$1,944,400Employment$749,892Philanthropy$743,000International$564,285

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 budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $8,208,786 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $1,049,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC: $875,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $780,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC: $749,892 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL: $400,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $318,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $310,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $281,168 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY: $250,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSIXPOINT INC: $186,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMILLBROOK SCHOOL: $175,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $175,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SCULPTURE CENTER INC: $162,520 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $151,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $115,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $98,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BIRCH WATHEN LENOX SCHOOL: $86,925 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetINDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTIKVA CORP: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOUNDLESS ISRAEL INC: $68,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $42,885 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARTISTS SPACE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $39,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $26,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONETABLE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR NEW YORKS STRONGEST INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAVEI YISRAEL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $19,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT SUNSHINE INC: $19,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFEDERATION FOR JEWISH PHILANTHROPY OF UPPER FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $18,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE TIKVAH FUND: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION: $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 4y, 1.0% 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.

  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
  • Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS ↗
  • Who funds TISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY ↗
  • Who funds SIXPOINT INC ↗
  • Who funds MILLBROOK SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THE SCULPTURE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY33.9× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Fjc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Nash Family Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · American Express Foundation · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    10get no government money at all
    10report 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.

    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 139 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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