· Private foundation
Hershman Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| NER L'HOREINU INC FAMILY FUND | $10,000 |
| DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION KEREN HAGEMACH | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +287% since the first grant, against +35% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 85 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ERETZ HEMDAH ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds CHASDEI YISROEL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARION AND AARON GURAL JCC 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hershman Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hershman Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Aleph Institute Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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