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The Von Der Heyden Family Foundation at a glance

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The Von Der Heyden Family Foundation

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.

$290k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.2MArts & Culture$1.2MAnimals$253kHuman Services$230kInternational$152kEnvironment$83kHealth$64kRecreation & Sports$41kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
$2,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUKE UNIVERSITY$85,000
AMERICAN ACADEMY IN BERLIN$30,000
CARNEGIE HALL$30,000
THE AMERICAN ACADEMY IN BERLIN$25,000
SUN VALLEY MUSEUM OF ART$20,000
FORWARD STRIDE$15,000
YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK$15,000
BLAIN COUNTY RECREATION DISTRICT$10,000
THE AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE$10,000
COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL$10,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
WILD SALMON CENTER$5,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$5,000
LINCOLN CENTER$3,000
CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOP$3,000
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 (FY17–24, $276k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FORWARD STRIDE: $15k → 8%FORWARD STRIDE: $15k → 8%FORWARD STRIDE: $6k → 8%FORWARD STRIDE: $6k → 8%FORWARD STRIDE: $5k → 8%FORWARD STRIDE: $3k → 8%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $250 → 7%BOYS & GIRLS AID: $500 → 12%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $250 → 7%YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK: $110k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK: $30k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK: $25k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK: $20k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK: $15k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK: $15k → 17%BALD MOUNTAIN RESCUE FUND: $500 → 7%YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK: $9k → 17%AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $1k → 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

VT
ID
NY
OR
WY
PA
NJ
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 53 repeat orgs$584k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
29

Total granted

$3.7M
$582k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+19%

Still filing today

70%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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

  • TN
    The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1.3M · revenue +76%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $431k · revenue +51%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK
    7× · 2017–2024 · $224k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $252k · revenue +80%
  • DU
    DUKE UNIVERSITY (STOCK DONATION 2440 SHS EMERSON ELECTRIC CO)
    one grant, 2023 · $235k
  • DH
    DEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -30%
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 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
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 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
4
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
5
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
8
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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9
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
10
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
11
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
12
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the most unlike its peers is Idaho Rivers United. 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

65 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. 65 of the 87 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/65
Grantees still filing
47/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $1,343,564 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden …DUKE UNIVERSITY: $430,793 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY+11 more: $180,700 · Education+11 moreTHE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $594,100 · OtherTHE METROPOLITAN OPERADUKE UNIVERSITY (STOCK DONATION 2440 SHS EMERSON ELECTRIC CO): $235,308 · OtherDUKE UNIVERSITY (STOCK DONATION …SUN VALLEY MUSEUM OF ART: $77,500 · OtherSUN VALLEY MUSEUM OF ARTSUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $58,900 · Other+37 more: $251,704 · Other+37 moreTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $195,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEG…METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $111,292 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLIT…LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $23,800 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CE…Museum of Modern Art: $18,451 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOP INC: $18,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $18,561 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $251,774 · EnvironmentNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $33,500 · Environment+8 more: $16,743 · EnvironmentYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK: $224,048 · Human ServicesFORWARD STRIDE: $49,200 · Human Services+4 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesAMERICAN ACADEMY IN BERLIN: $90,795 · International+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalDEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Health
Education$1,955,057Other$1,217,512Arts & Culture$385,104Environment$302,017Human Services$275,748International$91,795Health$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $1,343,564 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $430,793 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $251,774 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK: $224,048 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $195,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $111,292 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN BERLIN: $90,795 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $58,900 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetDEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFORWARD STRIDE: $49,200 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $49,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSun Valley Community School Inc: $42,450 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES: $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLinfield University: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $33,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWILD SALMON CENTER: $32,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $23,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $18,961 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $18,451 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOP INC: $18,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSHADY SIDE ACADEMY: $12,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE JEWISH MUSEUM BERLIN: $11,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetUKRAINE HOUSE DC FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDeschutes Land Trust: $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LIBRARY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $4,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOpal Creek Ancient Forest Center: $3,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $3,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SUN VALLEY BALLET FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetOREGON COLLEGE OF ART AND CRAFT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OUTDOOR FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWNET: $1,575 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO RIVERS UNITED: $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOUTER BANKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $1,460 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1,347 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $1,079 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY PLAYWRIGHTS RESIDENCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGUILFORD COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE: $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.

  • Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN BERLIN ↗
  • Who funds SUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds DEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FORWARD STRIDE ↗
  • Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Sun Valley Community School Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds Linfield University ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
  • Who funds CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOP INC ↗
  • Who funds SHADY SIDE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE JEWISH MUSEUM BERLIN ↗
  • Who funds UKRAINE HOUSE DC FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Deschutes Land Trust ↗
  • Who funds THE GREENWICH LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗

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.

The Oregon Community …Boswell Family Founda…Heinz Family Foundati…Spur Community Founda…L & H FoundationThe Springcreek Found…Morgan Stanley Global…Thurston Charitable F…Seattle FoundationManeval Reister Conar…Sam and Peggy Grossma…The Wattis Dumke Foun…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR22.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Boswell Family Foundation · Heinz Family Foundation · Spur Community Foundation Inc · L & H Foundation · The Springcreek Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Thurston Charitable Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Maneval Reister Conard Family Foundation · Sam and Peggy Grossman Family Foundation · The Wattis Dumke Foundation 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 Von Der Heyden Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Von Der Heyden Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Wild Salmon Center: 49% of income from government
  • Deschutes Land Trust: 46% of income from government
  • Linfield University: 4% of income from government
  • The Boys & Girls Aid Society of Oregon: 3% of income from government
  • Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 87 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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