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Hersher Family 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.

$134k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$66k
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 FY20172024.

Health$412kInternational$136kHuman Services$86kReligion$70kArts & Culture$45kHousing & Shelter$40kEducation$33kYouth Development$8k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $66k
$21,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND$66,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$26,000
UNITED POLICYHOLDERS$21,000
MOZAIC SENIOR LIFE$16,000
TEMPLE ADATH YESHURUN$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 21% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PARTNERS IN HEALTH: $26k → 16%UNITED POLICYHOLDERS: $21k → 10%SAYStuttering Assoc for the Young: $8k → 17%MOZAIC SENIOR LIFE: $16k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND: $66k → 10%SOUTHERN INST FOR EDU & RESEARCH: $10k → 23%FAMILIES IN TRANSITION: $10k → 7%PARTNERS IN HEALTH: $20k → 16%UNITED POLICYHOLDERS: $15k → 10%SAY STUTTERING ASSOC FOR THE YOUNG: $8k → 17%JEWISH SENIOR SERVICES: $10k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOODNORTHERN NEWENG: $60k → 10%FAMILIES IN TRANSITION: $10k → 7%PARTNERS IN HEALTH: $20k → 16%UNITED POLICYHOLDERS: $15k → 10%SAY STUTTERING ASSN FOR THE YOUTH: $8k → 17%JEWISH SENIOR SERVICES: $10k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOODNORTHERN NEWENG: $60k → 10%FAMILIES IN TRANSITION: $10k → 7%PARTNERS IN HEALTH: $20k → 16%UNITED POLICYHOLDERS: $15k → 10%JEWISH SENIOR SERVICES: $10k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOODNORTHERN NEWENG: $55k → 10%Families in Transition: $10k → 7%PARTNERS IN HEALTH: $20k → 16%UNITED POLICYHOLDERS: $15k → 10%Greater Bridgeport Symphony: $10k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOODNORTHERN NEWENG: $20k → 10%TEMPLE ADATH YESHURUN: $20k → 7%PARTNERS IN HEALTH: $10k → 16%UNITED POLICYHOLDERS: $15k → 10%JEWISH SENIOR SERVICES: $10k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOODNORTHERN NEWENG: $20k → 10%Temple Adath Yeshurun: $5k → 7%Partners in Health: $10k → 16%United Policy Holders: $8k → 10%MOZAIC SENIOR LIFE: $10k → 9%Planned ParenthoodNorthern NewEng: $10k → 10%TEMPLE ADATH YESHURUN: $5k → 7%PARTNERS IN HEALTH: $10k → 16%UNITED POLICYHOLDERS: $8k → 10%GREATER BRIDGEPORT SYMPHONY: $10k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NE: $10k → 10%TEMPLE ADATH YESHURUN: $5k → 7%Jewish Senior Services: $10k → 9%TEMPLE ADATH YESHURUN: $5k → 7%GREATER BRIDGEPORT SYMPHONY: $10k → 9%JEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY: $10k → 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.

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$809k · 12 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
3

Total granted

$809k
$21k

Still filing today

75%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterEducationOther

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

  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $136k · revenue +120%
  • UP
    United Policyholders
    8× · 2017–2024 · $111k · revenue +68%
  • JH
    JEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $76k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • JH
    JEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • SS
    SAY STUTTERING ASSN FOR THE YOUTH
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • SI
    Southern Inst for Edu Research
    one grant, 2018 · $3k

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
Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

2
Family Health Initiatives Inc

Our mission is to help hospitals, nonprofits and government improve the health and well being of communities.

Health
3
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
4
Care Transformation Collaborative of Ri

The mission of ctc-ri is to support the continuing transformation of primary care in rhode island as the foundation of an ever-improving integrated, accessible, affordable, and equitable health care system. ctc-ri brings together critical…

Health
5
United Hospital Fund of New York

Working to build an effective and equitable health care system for every new yorker. (see sch. o)

Health
6
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
7
Yale New Haven Health Services Corporation

To support its member healthcare organizations further innovation and excellence in patient care, teaching, and research.

Health
8
Maine Quality Counts

Maine Quality Counts is transforming health and healthcare in Maine by leading, collaborating, and aligning improvement efforts.

9
Cicatelli Associates Inc

Enhancing the quality of health care and social services delivered to communities in need across the united states and abroad. the organization offers expert training and capacity-building assistance to help health and human service…

Health
10
Global Strategies

Global Strategies empowers communities in the most neglected areas of the world to improve the lives of women and children through healthcare.

Health
11
Foundation for Healthy Communities

The mission of the Foundation for Healthy Communities is to build healthier communities for all by leading partnerships, fostering collaboration, and creating innovative solutions to advance health and health care.

Health
12
Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen

Eastern Maine Medical Center d/b/a Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center strives to provide exceptional primary and specialty healthcare with a passionate pursuit of excellence in patient safety, clinical quality, and service. Our…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOODNORTHERN NEWENG — $225,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODNORTHERN NEWENGUnited Policyholders — $111,000 · OtherUnited PolicyholdersTemple Adath Yeshurun — $55,000 · OtherTemple Adath YeshurunGREATER BRIDGEPORT SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC — $30,000 · OtherGREATER BRIDGEPORT SYMPHONY SOCIETY INCSOUTHERN INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION & RESEARCH INC — $16,000 · Other+4 more — $35,500 · Other+4 morePARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $135,500 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORAT…JEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $76,000 · HealthJEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIEL…Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — $76,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of Northern New Engl…Families in Transition — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterSTUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION — $14,000 · Education
Other$472,500Health$287,500Housing & Shelter$40,000Arts & Culture$15,000Education$14,000

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 budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $135,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Policyholders — $111,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetJEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $76,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — $76,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFamilies in Transition — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BRIDGEPORT SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC — $30,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSOUTHERN INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION & RESEARCH INC — $16,000 over 3y, 43% of budgetSTUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION — $14,000 over 4y, 0.5% 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 PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
  • Who funds United Policyholders
  • Who funds JEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC
  • Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc
  • Who funds Families in Transition
  • Who funds GREATER BRIDGEPORT SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds SOUTHERN INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION & RESEARCH INC
  • Who funds STUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Hersher Family Foundation Inc 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 · 10%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Greater Bridgeport Symphony Society Inc3% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc2% of income from government
  • Jewish Home for the Elderly of Fairfield County Inc0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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