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Charles Hertzig Foundation at a glance

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Charles Hertzig Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$28k
Granted FY2020
27
Grants FY2020
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Religion$37kEducation$28kHealth$7kInternational$6kHuman Services$4kPhilanthropy$2kArts & Culture$2kAnimals$1kOther$0
02FY2020 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k26 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$300
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY$10,000
TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM$4,500
TEMPLE ISRAEL CENTER$2,000
UJA- FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$1,800
WESTCHESTER JEWISH CENTER$1,500
ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$800
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$750
TOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$700
Individual grant recipient$500
JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FUND$500
COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL$360
TORAH FUND$300
FEEDING WESTCHESTER$300
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $1k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $250 → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
VA
NM
DC
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$73k · 36 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2020, 20 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
57

Total granted

$73k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+39%

Still filing today

33%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
EducationInternationalArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • LU
    LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2020 · $15k · revenue +69%
  • Cornell University
    4× · 2017–2020 · $4k · revenue +59%
  • WU
    WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2020 · $2k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • US
    UNITED SYNAGOGUE OF CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • BM
    BNOS MENACHEM GIRLS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • BM
    BNOS MENACHEM INC
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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.

1
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
3
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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4
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
5
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
6
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
7
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

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

International
8
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
9
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
10
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
11
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust; the most unlike its peers is Lamplighters Yeshivah. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
33/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM: $10,000 · OtherTEMPLE BETH SHOLOMTEMPLE ISRAEL CENTER: $4,700 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAEL CENTERWESTCHESTER JEWISH CENTER: $4,500 · OtherWESTCHESTER JEWISH CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMERICAN CANCER: $3,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,860 · OtherUJA: $2,360 · Other+70 more: $32,103 · Other+70 moreLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $15,100 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITYCornell University: $3,660 · EducationCornell UniversityWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $2,150 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIVERSITYTHE BRYANT LIBRARY: $1,350 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Education+5 more: $2,405 · Education+5 moreFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $2,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $720 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $700 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $300 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $250 · InternationalHIAS INC: $150 · InternationalBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000 · HealthTOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $700 · HealthWESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $500 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $350 · HealthUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,800 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEMA'AN ACHAI: $300 · PhilanthropyAMERICA GIVES INC: $200 · PhilanthropyISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $1,000 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $250 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $250 · Human ServicesTHE HOPE PROGRAM INC: $750 · Employment
Other$63,623Education$25,665International$4,120Health$2,550Philanthropy$2,300Human Services$1,500Employment$750

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $15,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $3,660 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $2,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOPE PROGRAM INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $720 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $540 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SCARSDALE LIBRARY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIVUNIM: $430 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORT AMERICA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE USA INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $118 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH JUMP: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAMPLIGHTERS YESHIVAH: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BRYANT LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAROON AND WHITE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOPE PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds TOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗

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 Communal FundThe Seltzer Hertzig F…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY20.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Seltzer Hertzig Foundationinc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Charles Hertzig Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles Hertzig Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Charles Hertzig Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Charles Hertzig Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 104 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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