How much does George F and Helen M Hirschmann Charitable Foundation give?

George F and Helen M Hirschmann Charitable Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $3,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 33 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

Who are George F and Helen M Hirschmann Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Society of St Francis ($55k), The Buddy Foundation ($50k), Kay's Animal Shelter ($46k).

Does George F and Helen M Hirschmann Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does George F and Helen M Hirschmann Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as George F and Helen M Hirschmann Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, Arthur J Gallagher Foundation, Motorola Solutions Foundation.

George F and Helen M Hirschmann Charitable Foundation

George F and Helen M Hirschmann Charitable Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$3k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$3k

Largest

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.

Animals$754kHousing & Shelter$28kHealth$15kPhilanthropy$10k

02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Individual grant recipient	$3,000

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 52% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$702k · 32 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$702k

$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%

+20%

Still filing today

75%

22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

TB
THE BUDDY FOUNDATION
4× · 2020–2023 · $50k · revenue +138%
PC
PAWS CHICAGO
3× · 2021–2023 · $45k · revenue +84%
SI
SAVE-A-PET INC
4× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +82%

Funded once

TS
THIENSVILLE-MEQUON SMALL ANIMAL CLI
one grant, 2020 · $30k
PC
PAWS CHICAGO DEVELOPMENT OFFICE
one grant, 2020 · $15k
AW
ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE OF BENZIE COU
one grant, 2020 · $12k

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.

Hope Fur Paws Rescue

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.

Animals

Safe Haven Inc

Animals

Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals

Raskels Rescue

Animals

Paws and Claws Animal Shelter

Animals

Shelters and Shelves Rescue Inc

foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs

Animals

Donna's Love Pet Rescue

Animals

Angies Dog House

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…

Animals

Animal Rescue and Adoption Agency Inc

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.

Animals

Pound Pets Inc

Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats

Animals

Fur Animal Rescue

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.

Animals

Happy Acres Pet Rescue

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save-a-Pet Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 43 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

17/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Animals$601,500Other$195,000Philanthropy$10,000

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

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.

AbbVie FoundationIL22.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Alliant Credit Union Foundation · Petco Love · Greater Good Charities · Petsmart Charities Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation 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 George F and Helen M Hirschmann Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George F and Helen M Hirschmann Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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.

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