Hearn Family Foundation

• The foundation makes contributions only to organisations it has preselected and does not accept unsolicited requests, so a charity with no existing link to it should not send an application, and the filing describes no public route to apply.
• The filing names no funding field and no eligible geographic area, so it is hard to tell from the filing whether your work fits; its grants have gone to organisational operations, including art museums, a symphony orchestra, a fire company, a postal museum and a ballet company.
• In its latest filing it paid $157,500 in total, and half of its six grants to organisations were $5,000 or less, with a median of $5,000, so a request sized near the lower end matches what it has given, although its typical grants have fallen between $2,500 and $90,000.
• Its filed grants are concentrated in Illinois, New York and Massachusetts, but the filing states no geographic focus, so that pattern is not a rule about who may apply; the most realistic route is an introduction through someone already connected to the foundation.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Art Institute of Chicago · General operating support for department of prints and drawings.
  $90,0002023 tax year
• Metropolitan Museum of Art · General operating support for european paintings department.
  $50,0002023 tax year
• Smithsonian National Postal Museum · General operating support.
  $5,0002023 tax year
• Monterey Fire Company · General operating support.
  $5,0002023 tax year
• Boston Symphony Orchestra · General operating support for annual fund.
  $5,0002023 tax year
• American Ballet Theatre · General operating support
  $2,5002023 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.