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Henry and Etta Raye Hirsch Heritage Foundation Inc at a glance

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Henry and Etta Raye Hirsch Heritage Foundation Inc

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.

$16M
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$16M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$18MEducation$685kHuman Services$430kReligion$275kPublic Safety & Disaster$250kInternational$232kYouth Development$128kHealth$117kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
  • $250k+1 grant · $16M
$3,600
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ATLANTA JEWISH FOUNDATION$15,781,489
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$30,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY PROF HS TUITION GRANT$30,000
JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES$25,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$10,000
MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$7,500
CONGREGATION ARIEL$7,205
GATEWAY CENTER$5,200
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$5,000
HILLELS OF GEORGIA$3,600
CONGREGATION B'NAI TORAH$3,270
THE WEBER SCHOOL$2,500
ATLANTA JEWISH ACADEMY$2,500
TORAH DAY SCHOOL$2,500
TEMIMA HIGH SCHOOL$2,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $487k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OPEN DOORS SOLUTIONS INC: $25k → 14%OPEN DOORS SOLUTIONS INC: $25k → 14%OPEN DOORS SOLUTIONS INC: $10k → 14%OPEN DOORS SOLUTIONS INC: $10k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $208k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $25k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $11k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 14%BEARINGS BIKE SHOP: $500 → 13%BEARINGS BIKE SHOP: $500 → 13%BEARINGS BIKE SHOP: $500 → 13%BEARINGS BIKE SHOP: $500 → 13%BEARINGS BIKE SHOP: $500 → 13%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $50k → 13%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $25k → 13%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $25k → 13%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $25k → 13%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $20k → 13%WEINSTEIN HOSPICE: $4k → 13%WEINSTEIN HOSPICE: $2k → 13%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

MI
NY
CA
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
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.

11%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 43 repeat orgs$16M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
26

Total granted

$1.9M
$479k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+23%

Still filing today

53%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • MJ
    MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $238k · revenue +139%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +156%
  • AI
    AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • CE
    COVID-19 EMERGENCY FUND JFGA
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • PF
    PEACEFUL FAMILY FUND - THE BLUE DOVE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • OA
    ORT AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $33k · revenue -30%
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
Pirchei of Atlanta

Summer Educational camp for children.

Education
2
Yotzer Ohr Inc

Our school is run on a system of mutual respect, for teachers, administration and students. in a warm and caring environment, full of creativity and multi-faceted approaches to education, we ignite a spark in each girl to love hashem and…

Education
3
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
4
Abraham Joshua Heschel School

The abraham joshua heschel school is an independent jewish day school which includes students from a wide range of jewish backgrounds, practices and beliefs. (see schedule o for continuation)

Education
5
The Board of Jewish Education

To provide early childhood and jewish education to the community.

Education
6
Abrams Hebrew Academy

To encourage and challenge our students to become disciplined and creative life-long leaners, empowering them to fulfill their highest educational goals. to instill in our students a pride and understanding of their jewish heritage…

Religion
7
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
8
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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9
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
10
Torah Temimah Jerusalem

The school trains advanced talmudic scholars, enabling them to become high level teachers and religious leaders in israel and the united states using specific methodology combining traditional talmudic study with innovative learning…

Education
11
Gainesville Jewish Student Foundation Inc

The gainesville jewish student foundation, inc. (known as schilit hillel at uf) mission: schilit hillel at uf enriches the lives of jewish students, inspiring them to make an enduring commitment to jewish life, learning, and israel

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12
Kesher Ld Inc Kesher

To provide, and guide other schools in providing, an education in both jewish and secular studies that meet the needs of the invididual student, and which empowers each student to reach his/her highest level of independent and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Jewish Academy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Southern Highlands Reserve Inc. 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

32 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. 32 of the 72 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
27/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ATLANTA JEWISH FOUNDATION: $15,781,489 · OtherATLANTA JEWISH FOUNDATION+51 more: $1,480,554 · Other+51 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $1,787,200 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FED…+1 more: $50,000 · PhilanthropyMARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC: $238,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC: $170,000 · Human ServicesOpen Doors Solutions Inc: $70,000 · Human Services+2 more: $8,500 · Human ServicesAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · International+1 more: $1,500 · InternationalIN THE CITY CAMP INC: $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentIAN'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $52,680 · HealthThe William Breman Jewish Home Inc: $7,400 · Health+1 more: $1,080 · HealthTHE ALFRED AND ADELE DAVIS ACADEMY INC: $15,500 · EducationATLANTA JEWISH ACADEMY INC: $15,500 · EducationTHE FELICIA PENZELL WEBER JEWISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $15,500 · EducationCHEROKEE CREEK EDUCATION PROGRAMS: $8,500 · EducationPACE ACADEMY INC: $2,500 · EducationTHE SWIFT LEARNING CENTER INC: $2,500 · Education
Other$17,262,043Philanthropy$1,837,200Human Services$486,500International$201,500Youth Development$65,000Health$61,160Education$60,000

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $1,787,200 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC: $238,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC: $170,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOpen Doors Solutions Inc: $70,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetIN THE CITY CAMP INC: $65,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetIAN'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $52,680 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHillels of Georgia Inc: $47,100 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetORT AMERICA INC: $32,680 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETRO ATLANTA COMMUNITY MIKVAHINC: $20,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $16,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALFRED AND ADELE DAVIS ACADEMY INC: $15,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA JEWISH ACADEMY INC: $15,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FELICIA PENZELL WEBER JEWISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $15,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHEROKEE CREEK EDUCATION PROGRAMS: $8,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetMICHIGAN B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe William Breman Jewish Home Inc: $7,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Vi and Milton Weinstein Hospice Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GATEWAY CENTER INC: $5,200 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE WILLIAM BREMAN JEWISH HERITAGE MUSEUM INC: $3,875 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPACE ACADEMY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SWIFT LEARNING CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIPHAN CARE MINISTRIES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ADAPTIVE LEARNING CENTER FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN INC: $1,080 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Drake House Inc: $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $615 over 3y, 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Open Doors Solutions Inc ↗
  • Who funds IN THE CITY CAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds IAN'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Hillels of Georgia Inc ↗
  • Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds METRO ATLANTA COMMUNITY MIKVAHINC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds THE ALFRED AND ADELE DAVIS ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA JEWISH ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FELICIA PENZELL WEBER JEWISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN HAND ATLANTA INC ↗

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.

The Selig Foundation …The Community Foundat…Jewish Federation of …The Frank Family Foun…Horowitz Family Found…Cooper Family Foundat…Luci and Stan Sunshin…Ron and Lisa Brill Ch…The Marcus Foundation…The Joyce and Ramie T…Jewish Community Foun…Winter Foundation Inc
The Selig Foundation IncGA30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Selig Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Frank Family Foundation Inc · Horowitz Family Foundation Inc · Cooper Family Foundation Inc · Luci and Stan Sunshine Family Foundation · Ron and Lisa Brill Charitable Trust · The Marcus Foundation Inc · The Joyce and Ramie Tritt Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Winter 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 Henry and Etta Raye Hirsch Heritage Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry and Etta Raye Hirsch Heritage Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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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    Find your warmest path to Henry and Etta Raye Hirsch Heritage Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 72 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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