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The Steven M and Anita C Heller 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $513k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METROPOLE FILM BOARD INC | $513,292 |
| UNITED STATES ROWING ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| SECURING AMERICAS FUTURE ENERGY FOUNDATION (AKA SAFE) | $20,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY GIVING | $15,000 |
| SAN MATEO COUNTRY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| SUBJECT MATTER INC | $10,000 |
| NYU LANGONE FINDING A CURE FOR EPILEPSY & SEIZURES [FACES] | $5,000 |
| BAIR A CENTER INC- BERKELEY ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH LAB (BAIR) | $2,000 |
| HOWARD UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- MFMETROPOLE FILM BOARD INC CO OREN JACOBY2× · 2023–2024 · $632k · revenue +11% · 35% of their budget
- USUNITED STATES ROWING ASSOCIATION2× · 2023–2024 · $155k · revenue +13%
- SMSUBJECT MATTER INC2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- WTWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +172%
- HBHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL CLUB OF NYone grant, 2022 · $50k
- TBTHE BREARLEY SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +37%
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.
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The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teach for America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Metropole Film Board Inc Co Oren Jacoby. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 35 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.
- Who funds METROPOLE FILM BOARD INC CO OREN JACOBY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES ROWING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREARLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ROWING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUBJECT MATTER INC ↗
- Who funds SECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE ENERGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds SAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODSIDE-PORTOLA VALLEY FIRE PROTECTION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Telluride Nordic AssociationInc ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY ↗
- Who funds WOODSIDE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Telluride Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds CHORDOMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Steven M and Anita C Heller Family Foundation 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% 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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