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- Assets: $86,690,493 (2005)
- Grants Received: $6,404,430 (2005)
- Grants Awarded: $4,250,283 (2005)
Established in 1984 and incorporated in 1992, the Heinz Family Foundation (HFF) is one of three affiliated foundations in the circle known as the Heinz Family Philanthropies (HFP), whose Chairman is Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of John Kerry. (The other two HFP member charities are the Teresa and H. John Heinz III Foundation, and the H. John Heinz III Foundation; these are both funds within the Heinz Family Foundation, fed by private trusts belonging to, and controlled by, Teresa Heinz Kerry.) The Executive Director of HFF is Jeffrey R. Lewis, an attorney who received his J.D. from Lewis & Clark Law School in 1989; he earns a salary and benefits package worth more than $230,000 per year for his work with HFF.
A major financier of radical environmentalist groups, the Heinz Family Foundation identifies its additional fields of interest as: Arts; Education; Museums; Human Health and Aging; Women's Economic Opportunities; and Cultural and Societal Enrichment. "To fuel progress," says HFF, "we concentrate a significant portion of our energies on educating the people who influence social policy in these areas. In particular, we focus on those who write the laws and cast legislation-creating votes."
The Capital Research Center, which was established in 1984 to study nonprofit organizations and to rate them along an ideological spectrum, classifies the Heinz Family Foundation as "radical left."
HFF is best known for its sponsorship and administration of the annual Heinz Awards, which were created in 1993 to honor the late Senator John Heinz. These Awards recognize "outstanding achievement" in the areas of: Arts and Humanities; Environment; Human Condition; Public Policy; and Technology, the Economy and Employment. Winners receive a $250,000 prize.
Among the many groups funded by the Heinz Family Foundation are: the Tides Foundation; the Tides Center; the Environmental Defense Fund; the Rocky Mountain Institute; the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation; Earth Action Network; Global Exchange; the Green Corps; the Green Guide Institute; the Natural Resources Defense Council; the Environmental Media Association; the Brookings Institution; the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund; the Earth Island Institute; Earth Trust Foundation; EarthWays Foundation; the American Jewish Committee; the Anti-Defamation League; the H. John Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment; Oxfam America; Physicians for Social Responsibility; the AIDS Action Committee; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Education Fund; the Nature Conservancy; the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence; the Center for Policy Alternatives; the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund; the World Resources Network; the Environmental and Energy Study Institute; the Center for Environmental Citizenship; the Feminist Majority Foundation; the National Council of Negro Women; the Union of Concerned Scientists; the Idaho Hispanic Caucus Institute for Research and Education; Jane Doe, Inc.; the Immigrants' Assistance Center; the International Women's Media Foundation; the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus Education Fund; the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition; the Pennsylvania Environmental Council; the Snake River Alliance; the United Negro College Fund; and Women's Policy.
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