· Private foundation
Bob & Nita Hirsch 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $137k
- $250k+3 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROVIDENCE CEDARS TARZANA FOUNDATION | $1,700,000 |
| LULU'S PLACE | $1,000,000 |
| LA SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT COMMISSION | $305,000 |
| CONCERN FOUNDATION | $82,100 |
| HAROLD & CAROLE PUMP FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S GREATER LOS ANGELES | $26,000 |
| BEIT T'SHUVAH | $23,000 |
| TENNIS HALL OF FAME | $20,000 |
| LA JEWISH HEALTH | $20,000 |
| ANGEL CITY SPORTS | $15,000 |
| DE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL | $11,160 |
| THE LADYLIKE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ENDLESS SPORTS | $7,500 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 99% of Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 1% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SCSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER6× · 2017–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +26%
- AGALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES7× · 2017–2024 · $584k · revenue +28%
- DTDE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL6× · 2017–2024 · $433k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- H8HILLEL 818one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +22% · 35% of their budget
- IMINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPSone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +8%
MAUI FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +138%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is Jewish Life Foundation. 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
48 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 103 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds LULU'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds DE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CONCERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA ↗
- Who funds HILLEL 818 ↗
- Who funds KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds THE HAROLD AND CAROLE PUMP FOUNDATION (FKA THE HAROLD PUMP FOUNDATION) ↗
- Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HEART RANCH ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Alpert & Alpert Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Group · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Lynn & Les Bider Family Foundation · The Marcia Israel Foundation Inc · Richard and Ellen Sandler Family Foundation · The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · The Annenberg 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 Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation 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.
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.
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