· Private foundation
Bruce and Wendy Hirsch Gary Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Congregation Shir Ha-Ma'alot | $9,675 |
| Hope Ignites Southern California | $500 |
| Jewish National Fund | $468 |
| Jewish Federation of Orange County | $365 |
| American Friends of Mogen David Adom | $360 |
| Hadassah | $360 |
| Pep4U | $300 |
| Orange County Tremble Clefs | $300 |
| Purdue Hillel Foundation | $250 |
| Orange County Council BSA | $150 |
| Art Institute of Chicago | $105 |
| Congregation Bnai Tzedek | $100 |
| University Synagague | $36 |
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network | $36 |
| Individual grant recipient | $36 |
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 (FY18–21, $366) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $662 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
- HIHOPE IGNITES SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA7× · 2018–2025 · $5k · revenue +3%
- CWCHARLES W BOWERS MUSEUM CORPORATION3× · 2020–2024 · $328 · revenue +65%
- OIOCEAN INSTITUTE2× · 2021–2022 · $300 · revenue +3%
Funded once
- BIBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +3%
- SFSHIKLER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $400
- FOFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INCone grant, 2022 · $250 · revenue -55%
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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Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for parkinson's disease through an aggressively funded research agenda and ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with parkinson's today.
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
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The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
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Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parkinson's Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is South Coast Symphony. 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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 55 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES W BOWERS MUSEUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OCEAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COAST SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds TEAM KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds MARIN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds DAVIS PHINNEY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Samueli Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · Argyros Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Orange County · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Bruce and Wendy Hirsch Gary Charitable 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.