· Private foundation
Henry & Myrtle Hirsch Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of HENRY & MYRTLE HIRSCH FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $152k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIFTH AVENUE JEWISH SYNAGOGUE | $100,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA | $40,000 |
| YESHIVA KEHILATH YAKOV | $36,000 |
| YESHIVA OF SOUTH SHORE | $30,000 |
| BETH JECHIEL MEIR TORAH CENETER | $26,000 |
| UNITED ISRAEL APPEAL | $20,000 |
| ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–19, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% 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 +78% since the first grant, against +76% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2019, 37 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k 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
- SASAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC2× · 2017–2018 · $105k · revenue +146%
- UIUNITED ISRAEL APPEAL INC2× · 2018–2019 · $35k · revenue +117%
- CNCLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC2× · 2017–2018 · $19k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- AIAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -27%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OPEN UNIVERSITY ISRAELone grant, 2017 · $5k
- HIHIAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +180%
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 jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The jewish agency for israel - north american council (the organization"), was organized to work with and in support of nonprofit organizations in israel active in the fields of aliyah (immigration) and absorption; service to vulnerable…
Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.
To further jewish education in israel
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Israel Appeal Inc and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 71 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 SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED ISRAEL APPEAL INC ↗
- Who funds CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds BEER HAGOLAH INSTITUTES INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLUE CARD INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE GUILD INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds UNCHAINED AT LAST INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN JEWISH EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds JBI INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS KICKING CANCER 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Richard Hirsch Foundation · Fjc · Morty & Gloria Wolosoff Foundation · Morris & Anna Propp Sons Fund Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Swieca Children Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Ojc Fund · Chubb Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Henry & Myrtle Hirsch Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% 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.
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