· Private foundation
Hershman Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
Anchored by a single position — about 95% of reported assets are held in Citigroup Global Markets.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YAD CHAYA | $80,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $28,000 |
| CONGREGATION BAIS MEDRASH LETORAH | $28,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $26,000 |
| BROTHERS FOR LIFE | $15,450 |
| NER L'HOREINU INC | $12,500 |
| HACHAIM VEHASHALOM | $10,360 |
| DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION KEREN HAGEMACH | $10,000 |
| NER L'HOREINU INC FAMILY FUND | $10,000 |
| SIMCHAT TZION | $9,000 |
| CONGREGATION AISH KODESH | $6,350 |
| AISH KODESH | $5,300 |
| KEREN ZICHRON GEDALYAHU | $5,000 |
| SHOR YOSHOV INSTITUTE | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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 +287% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k 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
- YCYAD CHAYA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +287%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OLD CITY CHEDER IN JERUSALEM INC3× · 2017–2019 · $36k · revenue +395%
- CYCHASDEI YISROEL INC4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- CVCHAZAK VEMATZ CONGREGATION INCone grant, 2020 · $30k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TIFERES YISROELone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -5%
- KNKOLLEL NER NAFTALIone grant, 2019 · $13k
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.
To provide financial support for organizations of talmudic study and advanced torah learning. assitance includes providing food and other needs to the students of advance talmudic studying and advanced torah learning
To award grants to jewish religious institutions and individuals.
To further jewish education in israel
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel
Furtherance of jewish education
Relief of poverty by means of grants to social service agencies and to individual families in israel.
The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.
To provide medical support to families in need
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Leon Mayer Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 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 — 5% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 85 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 YAD CHAYA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OLD CITY CHEDER IN JERUSALEM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TIFERES YISROEL ↗
- Who funds Brothers for Life ↗
- Who funds KOLLEL NER NAFTALI ↗
- Who funds NER L HOREINU INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ERETZ HEMDAH ↗
- Who funds DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds CHASDEI YISROEL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARION AND AARON GURAL JCC INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAS REB CHAIM OZER 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 · 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
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 Hershman 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Aleph Institute Inc — 0% 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.