· Private foundation
George F and Helen M Hirschmann Charitable Foundation
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 52% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 32 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
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
- TBTHE BUDDY FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $50k · revenue +138%
- PCPAWS CHICAGO3× · 2021–2023 · $45k · revenue +84%
- SISAVE-A-PET INC4× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- TSTHIENSVILLE-MEQUON SMALL ANIMAL CLIone grant, 2020 · $30k
- PCPAWS CHICAGO DEVELOPMENT OFFICEone grant, 2020 · $15k
- AWANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE OF BENZIE COUone grant, 2020 · $12k
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.
To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.
Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,
foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs
We are dedicated to rescuig animals left homeless for whatever reason, animals in public shelters where they are at high risk of euthanasia, animals given up by their owners because of difficult circumstances, and those in danger of abuse…
An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.
Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats
Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save-a-Pet Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Foundation of Central Mo. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 43 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 SOCIETY OF ST FRANCIS ↗
- Who funds THE BUDDY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KAY'S ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds PETS IN NEED SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAVE-A-PET INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Welfare League of Benzie County ↗
- Who funds No Kill Columbia Inc ↗
- Who funds A HEART FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds NAPERVILLE AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL HOUSE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE MAXFUND INC ↗
- Who funds ORPHANS OF THE STORM ↗
- Who funds TRIO ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds CORGIAID INC ↗
- Who funds HOOVED ANIMAL RESCUE & PROTECTION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YORKIE LUV RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL MO ↗
- Who funds HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds HOPE ANIMAL RESCUES ↗
- Who funds Lucky Day Animal Rescue of Colorado ↗
- Who funds HUSKY HALFWAY HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ON ANGELS WINGS 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.
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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 George F and Helen M Hirschmann 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.
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