The Heckscher Foundation for Children
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 131820170
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2127440190
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $20,719,339
- Expenses
- $20,519,907
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
What it reported funding in 2025
The foundation reported 122 grants totaling $14,743,356. The stated grant purposes included education and academic support, general purposes, and workforce development, plus 9 other reported purposes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 76% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 80% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
- Includes asset-sale income: Asset-sale income is shown separately from recurring resources when classifying the revenue model.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filing identifies who received its grants. The filing reports one or more activities that warrant closer review.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 100
- Cost Efficiency: 72
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 90
- Endowment Health: 75
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 100%; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 71.8%; rating input score 72; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 15 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 79
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Fail
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Fail
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Fail
- Grants to organizations: Fail
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 9; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 26.94; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Payout: At least 100% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 75th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 145 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Compliance: Part VII-B activity disclosures: 4 of 19 not reported.