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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.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
74
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$810k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$3.8MHealth$3.4MArts & Culture$1.4MRecreation & Sports$858kInternational$767kReligion$560kHuman Services$422kPhilanthropy$318kOther$0
02FY2024 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $662k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $746k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE$75,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION (AIPAC)$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%JEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICES: $25k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA: $15k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA: $15k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA: $15k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA: $15k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA: $15k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICES: $10k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICES: $10k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICES: $10k → 14%CREATING CONNECTED COMMUNITIES: $5k → 14%CHRIS180: $8k → 14%CHRIS180: $8k → 14%KATE'S CLUB: $3k → 14%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND: $50k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS: $25k → 13%WEINSTEIN HOSPICE: $3k → 13%WEINSTEIN HOSPICE: $3k → 13%WEINSTEIN HOSPICE: $3k → 13%WEINSTEIN HOSPICE: $3k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
NJ
VA
MD
SC
DC
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 79 repeat orgs$744k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
24

Total granted

$12M
$324k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+3%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $420k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +44%
  • RW
    ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +62%
  • PA
    PACE ACADEMY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $568k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • NB
    NEFESH B'NEFESH
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +27%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Atlanta Jewish Academy Inc

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…

Education
2
The George Washington University

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…

Education
3
Morehouse School of Medicine

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…

Education
4
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
5
Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

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…

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6
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
7
Georgia Advanced Technology Ventures Inc

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…

Education
8
Furman University

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.

Education
9
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
10
Spelman College

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.

Education
11
Lehigh University

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…

Education
12
Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Grady Health Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/81
Grantees still filing
54/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE: $2,130,100 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARETHE TEMPLE: $256,000 · OtherTHE TEMPLEEMORY UNIVERSITY: $175,000 · Other+68 more: $2,105,714 · Other+68 moreTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $2,635,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE…PACE ACADEMY INC: $567,500 · EducationPACE ACADEMY INCThe Westminster Schools Inc: $220,795 · EducationThe Westminster Schools Inc+6 more: $132,040 · EducationROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $1,182,500 · Arts & CultureROBERT W WOO…+9 more: $172,294 · Arts & Culture+9 morePiedmont Hospital Inc: $552,500 · HealthSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $52,000 · HealthANDEE'S ARMY: $50,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC: $36,000 · HealthGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $29,000 · Health+11 more: $123,500 · HealthCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $461,000 · Recreation & SportsCHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD: $155,000 · Recreation & SportsNORTHSIDE YOUTH ORGANIZATION INC: $125,000 · Recreation & SportsPATH FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $24,500 · Recreation & SportsAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $375,000 · InternationalFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $285,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $107,200 · InternationalTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $280,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $200,800 · PhilanthropyEAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC: $40,500 · PhilanthropyRALLY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$4,666,814Education$3,555,335Arts & Culture$1,354,794Health$843,000Recreation & Sports$840,500International$767,200Philanthropy$551,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $2,635,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $1,182,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPACE ACADEMY INC: $567,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPiedmont Hospital Inc: $552,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $461,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $375,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $285,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $280,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Westminster Schools Inc: $220,795 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $200,800 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD: $155,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC: $143,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHSIDE YOUTH ORGANIZATION INC: $125,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $115,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $107,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $102,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetJewish Home Life Communities Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $80,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPATH FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJEWBELONG INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $52,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANDEE'S ARMY: $50,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHillels of Georgia Inc: $43,600 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetEAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC: $40,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGeorgia Historical Society: $38,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ATLANTA OPERA INC: $38,169 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc: $36,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC: $36,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc: $30,030 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $29,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADAPTIVE LEARNING CENTER FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JACK AND JILL LATE STAGE CANCER FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT INC: $22,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC: $21,625 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRALLY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAgape Community Center: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 PATH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWBELONG INC ↗
  • Who funds MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ANDEE'S ARMY ↗
  • Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Hillels of Georgia 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.

The Community Foundat…The Marcus Foundation…Jewish Federation of …The Rich Foundation I…The Selig Foundation …The John and Rosemary…Georgia Power Foundat…The Arthur M Blank Fa…Tw Marian W Ottley At…The Coca-Cola Foundat…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainThe Imlay Foundation …
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA35.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hertz Douglas J Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hertz Douglas J Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Hertz Douglas J Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hertz Douglas J Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 120 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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