How much does Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation give?

Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $3,313,260 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 46 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (28%), Health (18%), Arts & Culture (14%).

Who are Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Skirball Cultural Center ($1.4M), Lulu's Place Inc ($1.0M), Alzheimers Greater Los Angeles ($584k).

Does Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, California Community Foundation, Alpert & Alpert Foundation.

Where is Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation based?

Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation is based in CA.

Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation

Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.3M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$1.7M

Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Community Foundation Of The Jewish Federation Council Of Greater Los Angeles, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$3.3MHealth$2.1MArts & Culture$1.6MRecreation & Sports$1.1MYouth Development$1.0MReligion$733kEducation$641kInternational$401kOther$0

02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $16k
$10k–50k8 grants · $155k
$50k–250k2 grants · $137k
$250k+3 grants · $3.0M

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$19M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
LA JEWISH HEALTH	$20,000
TENNIS HALL OF FAME	$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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

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

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 99% of Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 1%.

Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$8.9M · 44 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.9M

$835k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+27%

Still filing today

50%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

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SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER
6× · 2017–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +26%
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ALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES
7× · 2017–2024 · $584k · revenue +28%
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DE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL
6× · 2017–2024 · $433k · revenue +7%

Funded once

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HILLEL 818
one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +22% · 35% of their budget
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INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS
one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +8%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2023 · $50k

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy

University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

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The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International

Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…

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Jewish Communal Fund

To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.

Philanthropy

Clal-the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc

A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.

Religion

American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International

Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health

The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy

Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles; 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.

05the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 104 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

48/49

Grantees still filing

35/49

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$6,494,718Philanthropy$2,673,600Arts & Culture$1,506,457Recreation & Sports$1,000,000Health$987,091International$588,500Education$523,160

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA31.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

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

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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