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The Steven M and Anita C Heller Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$678k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$513k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$736kRecreation & Sports$718kHealth$206kEducation$147kEnvironment$53kHuman Services$11kReligion$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $513k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$79k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SUBJECT MATTER INC$10,000
SAN MATEO COUNTRY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION$10,000
NYU LANGONE FINDING A CURE FOR EPILEPSY & SEIZURES [FACES]$5,000
HOWARD UNIVERSITY$2,000
BAIR A CENTER INC- BERKELEY ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH LAB (BAIR)$2,000
COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRIENDS OF HARVARD & RADCLIFFE ROWING: $500k → 8%National Museum of American Jewish History: $1k → 22%SAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $10k → 7%Children's Health Council: $100k → 8%TEACH FOR AMERICA: $5k → 17%SunFarmer: $3k → 20%US Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1k → 14%National Rowing Foundation: $50k → 9%AH HAA School of the Arts: $6k → 7%UB Global: $33k → 13%President and Fellows of Harvard College: $25k → 8%The San Mateo County Historical Association: $1k → 7%Children's Health Council: $50k → 8%World Trade Center Performing Arts Center Inc: $50k → 17%IFP Fiscal Sponsorship: $10k → 20%Securing America's Future Energy: $10k → 14%AH HAA School FOR THE ARTS: $5k → 7%UB Global: $10k → 13%FRIENDS OF HARVARD & RADCLIFFE ROWING: $7k → 8%Woodside-Portola Valley Fire Protection Foundation: $3k → 7%The Brearley School: $50k → 17%Gary Klinsky Children's Centers: $5k → 20%Securing America's Future Energy: $10k → 14%Telluride Nordic Association: $1k → 7%FRIENDS OF HARVARD & RADCLIFFE ROWING: $3k → 8%WOODSIDE VILLAGE CHURCH: $5k → 7%SEE STATEMENT A: $1.0M → 17%Securing America's Future Energy: $10k → 14%Telluride Nordic Association: $1k → 7%Woodside Community Foundation: $1k → 7%HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL CLUB OF NY: $50k → 17%AH HAA School of the Arts: $690 → 7%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

NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
CA
CO
NC
DC
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 11 repeat orgs$286k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
16

Total granted

$1.6M
$241k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+37%

Still filing today

73%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • MF
    METROPOLE FILM BOARD INC CO OREN JACOBY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $632k · revenue +11% · 35% of their budget
  • US
    UNITED STATES ROWING ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $155k · revenue +13%
  • SM
    SUBJECT MATTER INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • NR
    NATIONAL ROWING FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +14%
  • TB
    THE BREARLEY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +37%
  • WT
    WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +172%
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
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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2
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
3
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
4
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
10
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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11
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
12
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teach for America Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 35 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METROPOLE FILM BOARD INC CO OREN JACOBY: $631,925 · OtherMETROPOLE FILM BOARD INC CO OREN JACOBYFRIENDS OF HARVARD & RADCLIFFE ROWING: $509,663 · OtherFRIENDS OF HARVARD & RADCLIFFE ROWINGUNITED STATES ROWING ASSOCIATION: $155,000 · OtherUNITED STATES ROWING ASSOCIATION+16 more: $226,390 · Other+16 moreCHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $200,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S …+1 more: $1,000 · HealthWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSUBJECT MATTER INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureINDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $25,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationNATIONAL ROWING FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsTelluride Nordic AssociationInc: $2,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsWOODSIDE-PORTOLA VALLEY FIRE PROTECTION FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Public Safety & DisasterWOODSIDE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,522,978Health$201,000Arts & Culture$97,000Education$82,000Recreation & Sports$53,000Public Safety & Disaster$2,500Philanthropy$1,000

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 budgetMETROPOLE FILM BOARD INC CO OREN JACOBY: $631,925 over 2y, 35% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $200,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES ROWING ASSOCIATION: $155,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL ROWING FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUBJECT MATTER INC: $35,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetSECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE ENERGY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $10,690 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODSIDE-PORTOLA VALLEY FIRE PROTECTION FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTelluride Nordic AssociationInc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHORDOMA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTelluride Mountain Club: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,000 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.

Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Silicon Valley Commun…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY14× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Steven M and Anita C Heller Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Steven M and Anita C Heller Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Steven M and Anita C Heller Family 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 35 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.0M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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