New York · Private foundation
Hershman Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $286k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $673k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Hershman Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $286k | 58% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $234k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $254k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $282k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $374k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $189k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $250k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $269k | 37% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yad Chaya Inc | $1,090,000 | 9 | 12% |
| Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan | $250,800 | 6 | n/a |
| Congregation Aish Kodesh | $68,825 | 9 | n/a |
| Hachaim Vehashalom Inc | $56,360 | 3 | n/a |
| Shul of Bal Harbour Inc | $49,005 | 9 | n/a |
| American Friends of the Old City Cheder in Jerusalem Inc | $36,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Chazak Vematz Congregation Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Yeshivas Tiferes Yisroel | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Brothers for Life | $15,450 | 1 | n/a |
| National Council of Young Israel | $12,684 | 8 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yad Chaya Inc | $1,090,000 | 9 | 12% |
| Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan | $250,800 | 6 | n/a |
| Congregation Aish Kodesh | $68,825 | 9 | n/a |
| Hachaim Vehashalom Inc | $56,360 | 3 | n/a |
| Shul of Bal Harbour Inc | $49,005 | 9 | n/a |
| American Friends of the Old City Cheder in Jerusalem Inc | $36,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Chazak Vematz Congregation Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Yeshivas Tiferes Yisroel | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Brothers for Life | $15,450 | 1 | n/a |
| National Council of Young Israel | $12,684 | 8 | n/a |
| Kollel Ner Naftali | $12,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Ner L Horeinu Inc | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Shor Yoshuv | $10,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Davis Memorial Fund Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Eretz Hemdah | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Gemilos Chasodim Chasdei Moshe | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Keren Hagemach | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $9,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chasdei Yisroel Inc | $6,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Marion and Aaron Gural Jcc Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Yeshivas Reb Chaim Ozer Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Keren Zichron Gedalyahu Inc Dba Beis Medrash Nezer Gedalyahu | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ness 26 Inc | $3,260 | 1 | n/a |
| Chai Lifeline Inc | $2,700 | 4 | 0% |
| Congregation Vayigdal Moshe | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Keren Hachesed of Monsey Inc | $2,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Kids of Courage Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Emunah of America Inc | $2,460 | 3 | 0% |
| Siach Yitzchok | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Irving Place Minyan | $1,800 | 1 | n/a |
| The Leon Mayer Fund Inc | $1,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Congregation Yagdil Torah | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Tifereth Moshe | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Aleph Institute Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Yeshiva of Far Rockaway | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Az House Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Khal Zichron Aryeh Leib Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bikur Cholim Inc | $756 | 2 | 0% |
| Boca Jewish Center | $680 | 1 | n/a |
| Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem | $680 | 2 | n/a |
| National Council of Young Israel | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Keren or Inc | $360 | 1 | 0% |
| Achiezer Community Resource Center Inc | $225 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($586k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hershman Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · The J W Foundation · Alyad Foundation Inc · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · Cross River Community Foundation · F G Foundation · The Ezra Charitable Trust · The Basch Family Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Fjc · Royal Heritage Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Hershman Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Hershman Family Foundation Inc give?
- Hershman Family Foundation Inc reported 27 grants totaling $286,480 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Hershman Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (47%), Religion (40%), Education (5%).
- Who are Hershman Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Yad Chaya Inc ($1.1M), Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan ($251k), Congregation Aish Kodesh ($69k).
- Does Hershman Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hershman Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hershman Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Ojc Fund, The J W Foundation.
- Where is Hershman Family Foundation Inc based?
- Hershman Family Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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