· Private foundation
Dorothy B Hersh Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $47k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $575k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MORRISTOWN MEDICAL HEALTH FOUND | $250,000 |
| OVERLOOK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| CENTRASTATE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| VIRTUA HEALTH | $100,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S HEALTH FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| PG CHAMBERS SCHOOL | $28,000 |
| SPECIAL STRIDES | $18,700 |
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 (FY17–23, $204k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 79% 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.
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 7% of Dorothy B Hersh Foundation Inc’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, 100% of the giving stays in NJ; read by stated purpose it is 93% — 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 +33% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
CAMP NEJEDA FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2023 · $305k · revenue +71%- VHVIRTUA HEALTH INC3× · 2020–2024 · $228k · revenue +33%
- PCPG CHAMBERS SCHOOL4× · 2018–2024 · $204k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- TCThe Children's Hospital at St Peterone grant, 2017 · $180k
- CSCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITYone grant, 2020 · $100k
- ACALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM A NJ NONPROFIT COone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -12%
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.
Garden academy, inc. uses scientific data-based and accountable interventions to provide an individualized education to students with autism, so that they may lead lives of the greatest possible independence. we are committed to helping…
Nassau suffolk services for the autistic (nssa) offers hope to people with autism and their families by providing high quality life-long support through services which enable people with autism to function better in everday life. nssa…
The mission of nyc autism charter schools is to provide individualized, scientifically based educational services to children with autism and other pervasive development disorders.
Schi disability services (sds) is dedicated to providing a variety of needed services to individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities and their families in a way that preserves their dignity and integrity, while improving their…
The keswell school is a specialized school for children with autism spectrum disorder.
New jersey institute for disabilities, inc. is dedicated to the provision of comprehensive, superior, multi-faceted programs of service to individuals with developmental and related disabilities and their families regardless of race,…
The calais school and its staff are committed to providing all students with academic and behavioral skills to reach their fullest potential and become life-long learners and socially competent members of their communities.
The educational partnership for instructing children (epic) is dedicated to providing educational services for individuals with autism and pervasive developmental disorder (pdd).
To provide services for adults with autism spectrum disorders and pervasive developmental delays that have aged out of the school system in order for these adults to pursue productive and meaningful lives and achieve integration within the…
Provide high quality services and supports to people with developmental disabilities and their families in sussex county.
Essex valley school, inc is a private school for students with disabilities. the school provides educational, therapeutic, and recreational services to students with behavioral disabilities.
To provide quality services to educate and support children and adults who have autism spectrum disorder, as needed throughout their lifespan ever mindful of quality of life, the intent to maximize each individuals potential through a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pg Chambers School and the most unlike its peers is Kean University Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 31 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 CENTRASTATE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP NEJEDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRTUA HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds PG CHAMBERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM A NJ NONPROFIT CO ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL STRIDES INC ↗
- Who funds REED ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD GRIEF INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORUM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AWARE INC ↗
- Who funds SCARC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mane Stream Inc ↗
- Who funds KEAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF ESSEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACCESS UNLIMITED 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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Columbia Bank Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Kessler Foundation Inc · Catholic Human Services Foundation · Ej Grassmann Trust · The Provident Bank Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 Dorothy B Hersh Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Women Aware Inc — 43% of income from government
- Community Access Unlimited Inc — 15% of income from government
- Special Strides Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Arc of Essex County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Mane Stream Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Forum School — 0% of income from government
- Virtua Health Inc — 0% of income from government
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.