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A S and Elsie Hirshman Charitable Trust Co Holland & Knight LLP

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.

$84k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of A S AND ELSIE HIRSHMAN CHARITABLE TRUST CO HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$376k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS$18,500
AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC$14,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
GOLDWATER INSTITUTE$7,500
SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY$5,000
UCSD FOUNDATION$4,000
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE$2,500
WILLIAMS COLLEGE$1,100
LA JOLLA COUNTY DAY SCHOOL$1,000
SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY$1,000
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE$1,000
HOOVER INSTITUTE$1,000
CATO INSTITUTE$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES: $6k → 10%HARVARD LAW SCHOOL: $3k → 8%HOOVER INSTITUTE: $5k → 8%LA JOLLA YMCA: $10k → 11%AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $14k → 17%FIDELITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES: $6k → 10%LA JOLLA YMCA: $10k → 11%AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $13k → 17%FIDELITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES: $5k → 10%LA JOLLA YMCA: $10k → 11%AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $11k → 17%FIDELITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES: $5k → 10%LA JOLLA YMCA: $10k → 11%AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $7k → 17%INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES: $5k → 10%LA JOLLA YMCA: $10k → 11%AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $3k → 17%GOLDWATER INSTITUTE: $8k → 11%LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY: $5k → 11%COLUMBIA UNIVIVERSITY: $15k → 17%GOLDWATER INSTITUTE: $5k → 11%LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY: $5k → 11%COLUMBIA UNIVIVERSITY: $15k → 17%GOLDWATER INSTITUTE: $3k → 11%LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY: $5k → 11%COLUMBIA UNIVIVERSITY: $15k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVIVERSITY: $10k → 17%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS: $19k → 17%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS: $15k → 17%FEDERALIST SOCIETY: $10k → 14%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS: $11k → 17%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS: $11k → 17%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS: $5k → 17%FEDERALIST SOCIETY: $10k → 14%UCSD FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%FEDERALIST SOCIETY: $5k → 14%UCSD FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%UCSD FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%UCSD FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%UCSD FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 11%SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 11%SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 11%SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 11%SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
IN
CA
KY
VA
DE
AZ
DC

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$447k · 34 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
5

Total granted

$447k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+50%

Still filing today

56%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsPublic BenefitCivil RightsSocial ScienceOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +20%
  • AF
    AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $48k · revenue +55%
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART
    5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • NP
    NEURO PSYCH ASSOC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • DO
    DESERT OASIS RESCUE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +62%
  • NR
    NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $800 · revenue +50%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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.

2
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

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

4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
National Association of College and University Attorneys

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

6
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
7
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
8
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
9
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
10
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
11
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
12
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Desert Oasis Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyGovernment Accountability R…Classical Music EnsemblesIndependent K-8 SchoolsJewish Community FederationsPublic University Foundatio…Community Arts OrganizationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Animal Rescue and Adoption
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%67%35–55yr16%16%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/26
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,539

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
24/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $55,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $27,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES — $25,000 · OtherTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUD…FIDELITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherHOOVER INSTITUTE — $9,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $7,500 · Other+17 more — $33,887 · Other+17 moreNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS INC — $60,300 · EducationNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS I…AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC — $47,500 · EducationAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INCUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $19,500 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONWilliams College — $5,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · Education+2 more — $3,100 · EducationSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART — $25,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO M…LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY — $18,000 · Arts & CultureLA JOLLA MU…THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $5,300 · Arts & CultureTHE SAN DIE…+1 more — $250 · Arts & CultureBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $17,750 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTE — $8,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Public BenefitThe Hermitage No Kill Cat Shelter — $5,500 · AnimalsTHE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATION — $3,250 · AnimalsHOPE ANIMAL SHELTER — $2,750 · AnimalsDESERT OASIS RESCUE INC — $1,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $5,000 · Social ScienceINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE — $4,000 · Civil Rights
Other$217,387Education$140,900Arts & Culture$48,550Public Benefit$30,750Animals$12,500Social Science$5,000Civil Rights$4,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS INC — $60,300 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC — $47,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART — $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $19,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY — $18,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $17,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hermitage No Kill Cat Shelter — $5,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWilliams College — $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $5,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE — $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATION — $3,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEdChoice Inc — $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE ANIMAL SHELTER — $2,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYoung America's Foundation — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDESERT OASIS RESCUE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE — $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL OF SAN DIEGO — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD MAGAZINE INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS INC
  • Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART
  • Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES
  • Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY
  • Who funds BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE
  • Who funds The Hermitage No Kill Cat Shelter
  • Who funds Williams College
  • Who funds THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE
  • Who funds LA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
  • Who funds THE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATION
  • Who funds EdChoice Inc
  • Who funds HOPE ANIMAL SHELTER
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation
  • Who funds THE NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY
  • Who funds DESERT OASIS RESCUE INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE
  • Who funds HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Texas Instruments FoundationTX12.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Texas Instruments Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization A S and Elsie Hirshman Charitable Trust Co Holland & Knight LLP funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • The New England Quarterly3% of income from government
  • Williams College0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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