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Harold E Hirsch Foundationinc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$43k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Religion$98kEducation$51kPhilanthropy$45kHealth$21kCommunity Improvement$13kAnimals$10kArts & Culture$6kEnvironment$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k39 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$229
Median grant
9
States reached
$909k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGREGATION SONS OF ISRAEL$14,518
TEMPLE EMANUEL$8,484
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA THE PENN FUND$4,600
SKIDMORE COLLEGE$2,500
NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$2,500
HISTORIC HUDSON VALLEY DEVELOPMENT OFFICE$2,200
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY$1,259
UNION COLLEGE$1,100
Individual grant recipient$500
FEEDING WESTCHESTER$354
NEW CASTLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$350
WESTMORELAND SANCTUARY INC$300
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN$300
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE BOSTON$280
JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER$280
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $890) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER: $250 → 9%MOUNT KISCO CHILD CARE CENTER: $300 → 9%MOUNT KISCO CHILD CARE CENTER: $190 → 9%MOUNT KISCO CHILD CARE CENTER: $100 → 9%MOUNT KISCO CHILD CARE CENTER: $50 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
IL
WI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AR
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$222k · 49 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

49 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
26

Total granted

$222k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+18%

Still filing today

65%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $950 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsEnvironmentPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

  • SC
    SKIDMORE COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +19%
  • WC
    Wildlife Conservation Society
    6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +57%
  • NY
    NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • DO
    DEPARTMENT OF ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY NYU MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • HC
    HOFSTRA CULTURAL ARTS CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $500
  • TA
    THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +53%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
Wamc

Wamc is chartered by the new york state board of regents to "furnish, prepare and present non-profit and non-commercial educational, instructional and cultural radio programs and also non-profit and non-commercial programs (wamc's mission…

Arts & Culture
8
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
9
New York Medical College

New york medical college (nymc), a member of touro university, is a health sciences college whose purpose is to educate clinical and public health professionals as well as researchers, to conduct biomedical and population-based research…

10
Hudson River Museum of Westchester

Situated on the banks of the hudson river in yonkers, new york, the hudson river museum's mission is to engage, inspire, and connect diverse communities through the power of the arts, sciences, and history.

Arts & Culture
11
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Rochester Museum & Science Center

The mission of the rochester museum and science center is to create a better world through inspiring curiosity, exploration, and engagement across history, science, culture, and the natural world.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Mental Health of New York Inc F/K/N Mental Health Association of West and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteady#1#14#17#8#4#12#15#11
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 56 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr20%27%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr14%53%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr20%22%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr14%72%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/50
the rest of the field
11%
5,555/51,200

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.

04the grantee network

50 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 83 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
37/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CONGREGATION SONS OF ISRAEL — $97,186 · OtherCONGREGATION SONS OF ISRAELTEMPLE EMANUEL — $37,438 · OtherTEMPLE EMANUELHISTORIC HUDSON VALLEY DEVELOPMENT OFFICE — $13,200 · OtherHISTORIC HUDSON VALLEY DEVELOPMENT OFFICE+48 more — $26,004 · Other+48 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $27,600 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNI…SKIDMORE COLLEGE — $15,000 · EducationSKIDMORE COLLEGEHORACE GREELEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $1,650 · Education+3 more — $925 · EducationNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MOUNT KISCO INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC — $800 · Philanthropy+2 more — $650 · PhilanthropyWildlife Conservation Society — $8,397 · AnimalsNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION — $1,052 · AnimalsTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER — $500 · Animals+2 more — $250 · AnimalsMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC — $1,379 · Arts & CultureJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC — $780 · Arts & CultureColonial Williamsburg Foundation — $750 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC — $475 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $300 · Arts & CultureTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC — $240 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $235 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $90 · Arts & CultureMAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION — $1,200 · HealthGREATER MENTAL HEALTH OF NEW YORK INC F/K/N MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF WEST — $750 · HealthBENEDICTINE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $250 · HealthNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $1,750 · EnvironmentSAVE THE SOUND — $300 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE ROCKEFELLER STATE PARK PRESERVE — $250 · EnvironmentHUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER INC — $100 · Environment+1 more — $25 · Environment
Other$173,828Education$45,175Philanthropy$16,450Animals$10,199Arts & Culture$4,249Health$3,700Environment$2,425

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $27,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE — $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $8,397 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $1,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHORACE GREELEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $1,650 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $1,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW CASTLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $1,550 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC — $1,379 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION — $1,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION — $1,052 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC — $854 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT KISCO INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC — $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMORELAND SANCTUARY INC — $800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC — $780 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN ULSTER COUNTY INC — $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MENTAL HEALTH OF NEW YORK INC F/K/N MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF WEST — $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation — $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT KISCO CHILD CARE CENTER — $640 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPES DOOR INC — $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC — $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC — $475 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALPHA PHI FOUNDATION INC — $300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE SOUND — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ROCKEFELLER STATE PARK PRESERVE — $250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBENEDICTINE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAPPAQUA SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC — $240 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $235 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST POINT JEWISH CHAPEL FUND — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 388 GREATER HUDSON VALLEY COUNCIL — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetULSTER COUNTY SPCA — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC — $90 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
  • Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE
  • Who funds NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society
  • Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
  • Who funds HORACE GREELEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
  • Who funds THE NEW CASTLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds MAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds CANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION
  • Who funds FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC
  • Who funds THE MOUNT KISCO INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC
  • Who funds WESTMORELAND SANCTUARY INC
  • Who funds JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN ULSTER COUNTY INC
  • Who funds GREATER MENTAL HEALTH OF NEW YORK INC F/K/N MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF WEST
  • Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
  • Who funds MOUNT KISCO CHILD CARE CENTER
  • Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER
  • Who funds HOPES DOOR INC
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
  • Who funds HIAS INC
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC
  • Who funds WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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.

Ibm International FoundationNY20.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation · Pcsb Community Foundation · The Pohly Family Foundation · Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Leventhal Family Charitable Foundation · St Faith's House Foundation · Jandon Foundation · The Kohlberg Foundation Inc · Lanza Family Foundation

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 Harold E Hirsch Foundationinc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • Hias Inc88% of income from government
  • Save the Sound37% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation12% of income from government
  • The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc5% of income from government
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc5% of income from government
  • Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England2% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club1% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Harold E Hirsch Foundationinc?

Find your warmest path to Harold E Hirsch Foundationinc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 83 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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