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E & S Hirsch Foundation a Calif Nonprofit Public Ben Corp at a glance

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E & S Hirsch Foundation a Calif Nonprofit Public Ben Corp

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.

$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$38kEducation$13kHealth$9kArts & Culture$7kInternational$6kHuman Services$5kFood & Nutrition$2kAnimals$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$500
Median grant
6
States reached
$28k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOLSA CHICA LAND TRUST$10,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$1,500
PARKINSONS MOVEMENT DISORDER FOUNDATION$1,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF LONG BEACH INC$600
EARTHJUSTICE$500
OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION$500
Individual grant recipient$500
SOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INC$500
LOS CERRITOS WETLANDS LAND TRUST$500
DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC$500
BARE TRUTH INC$500
WETLANDS WILDLIFE CARE CENTER$500
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC$500
NATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL$400
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$400
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 (FY20–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%INTERVAL HOUSE: $300 → 10%BARE TRUTH INC: $600 → 14%INTERVAL HOUSE: $100 → 10%BARE TRUTH INC: $500 → 14%INTERVAL HOUSE: $100 → 10%BARE TRUTH INC: $500 → 14%Interval House: $100 → 14%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

WA
NY
MA
OR
IA
PA
CA
MO
VA
AZ
NC
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 28% of E & S Hirsch Foundation a Calif Nonprofit Public Ben Corp’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 74%.

E & S Hirsch Foundation a Calif Nonprofit Public Ben Corplessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.5% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$64k · 33 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
12

Total granted

$64k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+2%

Still filing today

79%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHealthInternationalEducationArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +20%
  • EARTHJUSTICE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +16%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • OC
    ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +105%
  • OC
    ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +52%
  • PA
    Parkensons and Movemnt Disorder Fnd
    one grant, 2020 · $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
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
The 5 Gyres Institute

The 5 Gyres Institute (5 Gyres) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles, with a global network of supporters united in the pursuit of a planet free of plastic pollution. 5 Gyres' mission is to empower action against the…

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5
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
6
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
7
Environmental Defense Center

The organization protects and enhances the local environment through education, advocacy and legal action.

Crime & Legal
8
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
9
Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech
10
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
11
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
12
The International Dark-Sky Association Inc

Darksky international restores the nighttime environment and protects communities from the harmful effects of light pollution through outreach, advocacy, and conservation.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Children's Trust; the most unlike its peers is Captain Paul Watson 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

33 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. 33 of the 48 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
18/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOLSA CHICA LAND TRUST: $20,850 · EnvironmentBOLSA CHICA LAND TRUSTEARTHJUSTICE: $2,400 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICELos Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust: $2,250 · EnvironmentLos Cerritos Wetlands Land TrustNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,600 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $1,500 · Environment350ORG: $1,200 · Environment+2 more: $1,300 · EnvironmentSOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INC: $2,200 · OtherSOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INCIndividual grant recipient: $1,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKPFK PACIFICA FOUNDATION: $1,100 · OtherKPFK PACIFICA FOUNDATIONParkensons and Movemnt Disorder Fnd: $1,000 · OtherPATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE: $1,000 · OtherWETLANDS WILDLIFE CARE CENTER: $1,000 · OtherAssistance League of Long Beach: $800 · OtherLAIST: $800 · OtherMOORE INSTITUTE FOR PLASTIC POLLUTION: $700 · OtherMeals on Wheels of Long Beach Inc: $2,200 · OtherMeals on Wheels of Long Beac…B A R E TRUTH: $1,600 · OtherB A R E TRUTHALGALITA MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION: $1,500 · OtherALGALITA MARINE RESEARCH AND…+15 more: $4,400 · Other+15 moreORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION: $6,350 · EducationORANGE COUNTY SCH…ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $5,800 · EducationORANGE COUNTY SCH…THE PARKINSON'S & MOVEMENT DISORDER FOUNDATION: $3,000 · HealthOPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION: $1,410 · HealthLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $700 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $700 · HealthMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,300 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,023 · InternationalMercy Corps: $200 · InternationalCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $2,400 · AnimalsSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $750 · AnimalsDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureThe Art Theatre of Long Beach: $500 · Arts & Culture
Environment$31,100Other$20,000Education$12,150Health$5,810International$5,523Animals$3,150Arts & Culture$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOLSA CHICA LAND TRUST: $20,850 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION: $6,350 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $5,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARKINSON'S & MOVEMENT DISORDER FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $2,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $2,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLos Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust: $2,250 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INC: $2,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Long Beach Inc: $2,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetB A R E TRUTH: $1,600 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $1,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALGALITA MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION: $1,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION: $1,410 over 4y, 0.0% of budget350ORG: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,023 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOUR CHILDREN'S TRUST: $900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAssistance League of Long Beach: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERVAL HOUSE: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Art Theatre of Long Beach: $500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAPTAIN PAUL WATSON FOUNDATION: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE ACTION FAMILIES: $300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSEATTLE PEACE CHORUS: $200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMercy Corps: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoroptimist International of Long Beach: $100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDollys Dream Home Rabbit Rescue: $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.

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.

Orange County Communi…Long Beach Community …California Community …Porter John W TuwBess J Hodges Foundat…California Foundation…Sempra FoundationChubb Charitable Foun…Silicon Valley Commun…The Blackbaud Giving …Verizon FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…
Orange County Community FoundationCA20.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Long Beach Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Porter John W Tuw · Bess J Hodges Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Sempra Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Verizon Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 E & S Hirsch Foundation a Calif Nonprofit Public Ben Corp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from E & S Hirsch Foundation a Calif Nonprofit Public Ben Corp. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 48 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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