· Private foundation
Gertrude L Hirsch Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCER STREET FRIENDS CENTER | $5,000 |
| NOURISHNJ | $5,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY | $5,000 |
| 4CS OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC | $5,000 |
| WOMEN AWARE INC | $5,000 |
| THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC | $5,000 |
| BONNIE BRAE | $5,000 |
| SAMARITAN INN INC | $5,000 |
| ARM IN ARM INC | $5,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $5,000 |
| SIERRA HOUSE | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF SALEM COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $293k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 56% 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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- 4O4CS OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC5× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +1%
WOMANSPACE INC5× · 2018–2024 · $35k · revenue +59%- SISAMARITAN INN INC3× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- COCircle of Life Childrens Center Incone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -79% · 26% of their budget
- JSJEWISH SERVICE FOR THE DEVLEOPMENT-one grant, 2020 · $15k
- IFINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INCone grant, 2019 · $13k
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.
The organization's mission is to provide households experiencing homelessness or are at risk of homelessness, an opportunity to achieve stability by providing comprehensive shelter diversion/homeless prevention, or transitional housing…
To provide shelter, meals and case management for homeless families, as well as aiding the families in finding a home , family services and training.
Carelink community support services of new jersey's mission is to assist adult citizens of nj living with psychiatric disability in acquiring the tools necessary to live health and fulfilling lives.
This agency is dedicated to excellence in mental healthcare and has commitment to life- long support needed by individuals and their families to ensure that they achieve their full potential to improve the quality of their lives.
New hope integrated behavioral health care, inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, provides commission on the accreditation of rehabilitation facilities (carf) and nj licensed substance use and co-occurring mental health disorder…
The mission of the children's home society of new jersey is to save children's lives and build healthy families. chs provides at-risk children and their families with a range of culturally sensitive social services that strengthen, support…
When a family is in crisis, Bridges is there to offer support by providing respite and host homes for children in our community. Children visit respite homes for several hours after school or on weekends to enjoy the benefit of a nurturing…
The organization's mission is to make the critical connection between individuals and families seeking health and/or human services and the organizations best able to meet their needs.
Our mission is the prevention of domestic violence through the protection and empowerment of the victim, the rehabilitation of family members, the advocacy for social reform to prevent partner violence, and the education of the public…
Promoting, assisting and supporting the sustainability and growth of casa programs in new jersey. casa programs promote the protection of abused and neglected children by using trained volunteers to advocate for these children in courts…
The organization's mission is to increase local services and resources for the homeless. miph provides affordable permanent housing in central new jersey, giving families a stable place to live while they prepare for their lives free from…
To provide permanent supportive housing opportunities coupled with innovative support services empowering indivduals to live independently with dignity and to fullfull their utmost potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Sussex County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mend On the Move. 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 37 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 91 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 4CS OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMANSPACE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN INN INC ↗
- Who funds Alternatives Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds 180 TURNING LIVES AROUND ↗
- Who funds OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Circle of Life Childrens Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MATHENY SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY SEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ ↗
- Who funds EVA'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Hunterdon County Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE JERSEY SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds ARM IN ARM INC ↗
- Who funds LINK EDUCATION PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES OF OCEAN COUNTY OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds HABCORE INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SALEM COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds St Peters Haven Corporation ↗
- Who funds CUMACECHO INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW CITY KIDS 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 · Scott Carolyn J Char Tua-Main · The Provident Bank Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · Ann Earle Talcott Fund · Investors Foundation Inc · Robert Mills Foundation · E and S Van Houten Memorial Fund · Pseg Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · George a Ohl Jr Trust · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation 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 Gertrude L Hirsch Charitable Trust 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.
- 4CS of Passaic County Inc — 92% of income from government
- Center for Family Services — 73% of income from government
- Center for Hope and Safety Inc — 69% of income from government
- 180 Turning Lives Around — 61% of income from government
- Safe & Sound Somerset Inc — 54% of income from government
- Habcore Inc — 50% of income from government
- Womanspace Inc — 47% of income from government
- Women Aware Inc — 43% of income from government
- Family Promise of Sussex County Inc — 32% of income from government
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
- Nourishnj Inc — 27% of income from government
- Cumacecho Inc — 25% of income from government
- Bridges Outreach Inc — 25% of income from government
- Eva's Village Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Discovery Orchestra Inc — 14% of income from government
- Homeless Solutions Inc — 6% of income from government
- Volunteer Center of Bergen County Inc — 4% of income from government
- Arm in Arm Inc — 4% of income from government
- Alternatives Inc — 4% of income from government
- Bonnie Brae — 3% of income from government
- Children's Aid and Family Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Children On the Green Inc — 1% of income from government
- Georgian Court University — 1% of income from government
- Ramapo College Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Family Service Agency of Central Nj — 1% of income from government
- Sierra House Inc — 0% of income from government
- Christian Health Care Center — 0% of income from government
- Samaritan Inn Inc — 0% of income from government
- The College of New Jersey Foundation 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.