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Gertrude L Hirsch Charitable Trust at a glance

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Gertrude L Hirsch Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$125k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$330kHousing & Shelter$163kEducation$128kHealth$120kYouth Development$89kFood & Nutrition$81kAnimals$20kCrime & Legal$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERCER STREET FRIENDS CENTER$5,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS COASTAL N NJ$5,000
FOOD BANK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC$5,000
FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY$5,000
180 TURNING LIVES AROUND INC$5,000
NOURISHNJ$5,000
RAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION$5,000
THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY$5,000
FREEDOM HOUSE NJ$5,000
BONNIE BRAE$5,000
CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES INC$5,000
SAMARITAN INN INC$5,000
4CS OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC$5,000
SIERRA HOUSE$5,000
ARM IN ARM INC$5,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MEND ON THE MOVE: $5k → 8%ATLERNATIVES INC: $10k → 5%FATHER JOHNS ANIMAL HOUSE: $5k → 6%WOMEN AWARE INC: $5k → 8%CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10k → 12%CUMAC ECHO INC: $10k → 12%ALTERNATIVES INC: $5k → 5%YMCA OF METUCHEN: $5k → 8%ARM IN ARM INC: $5k → 11%CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF HUNTERDON COUNTY INC: $8k → 4%ALTERNATIVES INC: $5k → 5%CIRCLE OF LIFE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $25k → 10%ARM IN ARM INC: $5k → 11%4C'S OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC: $15k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF HUNTERDON COUNTY INC: $5k → 4%ALTERNATIVES INC: $5k → 5%FAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC: $8k → 6%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC: $5k → 7%THE OASIS HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $10k → 12%ALTERNATIVES INC: $5k → 5%180 TURNING LIVES AROUND INC: $5k → 6%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC: $5k → 7%MERCER STREET FRIENDS CENTER: $5k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN OCEAN COUNTY: $8k → 11%4CS OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC: $10k → 12%CHILDREN ON THE GREEN INC: $5k → 4%180 TURNING LIVES AROUND INC: $5k → 6%CHILDRENS AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $5k → 7%CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES INC: $5k → 12%4C'S OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC: $10k → 12%SAFE & SOUND SOMERSET INC: $10k → 5%180 TURNING LIVES AROUND INC: $5k → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF THE JERSEY SHORE INC: $5k → 11%THE OASIS HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $5k → 12%180 TURNING LIVES AROUND INC: $5k → 6%4CS OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC: $5k → 12%180 TURNING LIVES AROUND INC: $5k → 6%180 TURNING LIVES AROUND INC: $5k → 6%4CS OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC: $5k → 12%THE OASIS HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $5k → 12%THE OASIS HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $5k → 12%SIERRA HOUSE: $5k → 16%SIERRA HOUSE: $5k → 16%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
MI
NY
NJ
CA
MD
DC
GA
FL
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$590k · 29 repeat orgs$444k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
50

Total granted

$590k
$384k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+6%

Still filing today

79%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SI
    SAMARITAN INN INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +20%
  • WOMANSPACE INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $35k · revenue +59%
  • 1T
    180 TURNING LIVES AROUND
    6× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • CO
    Circle of Life Childrens Center Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -79% · 26% of their budget
  • JS
    JEWISH SERVICE FOR THE DEVLEOPMENT-
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • IF
    INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $13k
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
Family Promise of Southwest Nj

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…

Human Services
2
Family Promise of Cape May County

To provide shelter, meals and case management for homeless families, as well as aiding the families in finding a home , family services and training.

Human Services
3
Carelink Community Support Services Nj

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.

Health
4
Care Plus Nj Inc

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.

Health
5
New Hope Integrated Behavioral Health Care Inc

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…

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6
The Childrens Home Society of New Jersey

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…

Human Services
7
Bridges Nj Inc

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…

Human Services
8
Nj 2-1-1 Partnership a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation

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.

Human Services
9
Jersey Battered Women's Service Inc

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…

Human Services
10
Court Appointed Special Advocates of New Jersey Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
11
Making It Possible to End Homelessness Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
12
Triple C Housing Inc

To provide permanent supportive housing opportunities coupled with innovative support services empowering indivduals to live independently with dignity and to fullfull their utmost potential.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Sussex County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/64
Grantees still filing
38/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · OtherTHOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITYWOMANSPACE INC: $35,000 · OtherWOMANSPACE INCHOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC: $25,000 · OtherFOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC: $20,000 · Other+47 more: $397,000 · Other+47 more4CS OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC: $45,000 · Human Services4CS OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC180 TURNING LIVES AROUND: $30,000 · Human Services180 TURNING LIVES AROUNDAlternatives Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesAlternatives IncCircle of Life Childrens Center Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesCircle of Life Childrens Center I…OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesOASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILD…CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES: $20,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICESFAMILY PROMISE OF THE JERSEY SHORE INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesFamily Promise of Hunterdon County Inc: $12,500 · Human Services+15 more: $107,500 · Human Services+15 moreTHE MATHENY SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL INC: $20,000 · EducationNEW JERSEY SEEDS INC: $15,000 · EducationGEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationTHE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationRAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationKula for Karma New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation: $5,000 · EducationSAMARITAN INN INC: $35,000 · Housing & ShelterINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES OF OCEAN COUNTY OF NEW JERSEY: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterGREATER LIFE INC: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsTEAM RANDY INC CO TOMS RIVER FITNESS FOR WOMEN: $4,000 · Recreation & SportsVIRTUA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthChristian Health Care Center: $5,000 · HealthCancer Care Inc: $5,000 · HealthOVERLOOK FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthNEW CITY KIDS INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCULTURE IS KEY: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentASLAN INC: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$537,000Human Services$307,500Education$65,000Housing & Shelter$45,000Recreation & Sports$34,000Health$25,000Youth Development$20,000

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 budget4CS OF PASSAIC COUNTY INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN INN INC: $35,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetWOMANSPACE INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budget180 TURNING LIVES AROUND: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER LIFE INC: $30,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetAlternatives Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCircle of Life Childrens Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetOASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MATHENY SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF CENTRAL NJ: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW JERSEY SEEDS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEVA'S VILLAGE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE JERSEY SHORE INC: $12,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFamily Promise of Hunterdon County Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLINK EDUCATION PARTNERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES OF OCEAN COUNTY OF NEW JERSEY: $10,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHABCORE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSt Peters Haven Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF SALEM COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetARM IN ARM INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCUMACECHO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW CITY KIDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGES OUTREACH INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVIRTUA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetVOLUNTEER CENTER OF BERGEN COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPrinceton Future Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetChristian Health Care Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBONNIE BRAE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY ORCHESTRA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNOURISHNJ INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCancer Care Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Promise of Spokane: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA of Metuchen: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Mercer County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPG CHAMBERS SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCER STREET FRIENDS CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $5,000 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.

Community Foundation …Scott Carolyn J Char …The Provident Bank Fo…Columbia Bank Foundat…Ann Earle Talcott FundInvestors Foundation …Robert Mills Foundati…E and S Van Houten Me…Pseg Foundation IncCitizens Philanthropi…George a Ohl Jr TrustBristol-Myers Squibb …
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ66.4× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Gertrude L Hirsch Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gertrude L Hirsch Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
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 91 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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