· Private foundation
Hertz Douglas J Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $662k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $746k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $810,000 |
| WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER | $282,500 |
| PACE ACADEMY | $140,000 |
| GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $130,000 |
| NORTHSIDE YOUTH ORGANIZATION | $125,000 |
| JEWISH HOME LIFE | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION (AIPAC) | $75,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE | $75,000 |
| THE TEMPLE | $51,000 |
| WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND | $50,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES | $45,000 |
| GEORGIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE | $36,000 |
| ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION | $35,833 |
| HILLELS OF GEORGIA | $30,000 |
| ATLANTA OPERA | $25,669 |
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 (FY20–24, $239k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $420k 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
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND5× · 2020–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +44%
- RWROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +62%
- PAPACE ACADEMY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $568k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- NBNEFESH B'NEFESHone grant, 2023 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $100k
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +27%
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.
Atlanta jewish academy is a college preparatory, co-educational, preschool-12th grade, independent jewish day school, guided by modern orthodox values and principles. we embody the ideals of community, tradition, individual development and…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively as a supporting organization to and for the benefit of the georgia institute of technology to foster and support education and scientific research and economic development…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Grady Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Northside Youth Organization Inc. 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 36 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% 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 22% 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.
81 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. 81 of the 120 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 THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PACE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Piedmont Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Westminster Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds CHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE YOUTH ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Home Life Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWBELONG INC ↗
- Who funds MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds PATH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANDEE'S ARMY ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Hillels of Georgia 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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Marcus Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Rich Foundation Inc · The Selig Foundation Inc · The John and Rosemary Brown Family Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Imlay 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 Hertz Douglas J Family 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.
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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