· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC | $500 |
| LOS CERRITOS WETLANDS LAND TRUST | $500 |
| SOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INC | $500 |
| OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION | $500 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $500 |
| BARE TRUTH INC | $500 |
| WETLANDS WILDLIFE CARE CENTER | $500 |
| DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $400 |
| NATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL | $400 |
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 (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 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 28% of E & S Hirsch Foundation a Calif Nonprofit Public Ben Corp’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, 77% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 74% — 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 +16% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +20%- CFCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +67%
EARTHJUSTICE5× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- OCORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +105%
- OCORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +52%
- PAParkensons and Movemnt Disorder Fndone grant, 2020 · $1k
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Children's Trust and 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.
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 35 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.
33 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. 33 of the 48 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 BOLSA CHICA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARKINSON'S & MOVEMENT DISORDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Los Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Long Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds SOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds B A R E TRUTH ↗
- Who funds ALGALITA MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Long Beach ↗
- Who funds SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds INTERVAL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Art Theatre of Long Beach ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE ACTION FAMILIES ↗
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 · 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
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 E & S Hirsch Foundation a Calif Nonprofit Public Ben Corp 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% 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.