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Hertz Family Foundation at a glance

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Hertz Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$212k
Granted FY2025still arriving
64
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$88k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$283kHealth$143kPhilanthropy$89kYouth Development$20kHousing & Shelter$19kRecreation & Sports$17kCrime & Legal$10kArts & Culture$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k58 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $82k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $88k
$404
Median grant
15
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$88,066
HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY$25,550
BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION$22,255
DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE$12,600
UNITED WAY OF MIAMI$11,800
SYRACUSE$10,000
CAMILLUS HOUSE$6,000
LAUREN'S KIDS INC$5,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF TROPICAL FLORIDA$3,250
ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER$3,000
LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND$2,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$1,466
DOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE$1,300
DUMOND CONSERVANCY FOR PRIMATES AND TROPICAL FORESTS INC$1,200
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF MIAMI$1,181
02The need
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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 (FY23–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC: $521 → 15%FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC: $500 → 15%CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP: $200 → 15%CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP: $100 → 15%MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 15%WHISPERING MANES: $860 → 15%WHISPERING MANES: $300 → 15%WHISPERING MANES: $125 → 15%BURGER KING MCLAMORE FOUNDATION: $450 → 15%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

WA
IL
NY
MA
IN
NJ
CT
CA
VA
DE
NC
SC
DC
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$456k · 41 repeat orgs$114k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
38

Total granted

$456k
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+7%

Still filing today

46%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • UO
    University of Miami
    3× · 2023–2025 · $245k · revenue +19%
  • DR
    DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +60%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    2× · 2024–2025 · $7k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • BH
    BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH FLORIDA
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2023 · $11k
  • SU
    SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY JOHN A LALLY ATHLETICS COMPLEX FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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.

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University of Miami
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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
5
Florida International University Research Foundation Inc

The fiu research foundation provides means by which discoveries, inventions, processes, and work products of faculty, staff and students of the university may be patented, developed, applied and utilized in order that the results of such…

Science & Tech
6
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
7
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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8
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
9
Florida International University Foundation Inc

To encourage, solicit, receive and administer gifts and bequests of property and funds for scientific, educational and charitable purposes, all for the advancement of florida international university and its objectives (see schedule o for…

Education
10
The Florida State University Foundation Inc

The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…

Education
11
Miami University Foundation

Support of miami university

Education
12
Miami Association of Realtors Inc

The miami association of realtors (miami) was chartered by the national association of realtors in 1920 and is celebrating 105 years of service to realtors, the buying and selling public, and the communities in south florida. comprised of…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whispering Manes Therapeutic Riding Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mle Foundation 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

54 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. 54 of the 107 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
33/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Miami: $244,559 · EducationUniversity of MiamiHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $25,550 · EducationHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY+5 more: $7,262 · EducationBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION: $51,975 · OtherBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATIONBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $20,000 · OtherBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH FL…SYRACUSE: $20,000 · OtherSYRACUSECAMILLUS HOUSE INC: $18,000 · OtherCAMILLUS HOUSE INCUNITED WAY: $10,740 · OtherSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY JOHN A LALLY ATHLETICS COMPLEX FUND: $10,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF TROPICAL FLORIDA: $7,937 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · Other+68 more: $59,937 · Other+68 moreDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $40,232 · HealthDIABETES RE…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $9,200 · HealthMEMORIAL SL…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $6,966 · HealthBREAKTHROUG…DOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE INC: $6,816 · HealthDOLPHINS CY…+5 more: $1,191 · HealthUNITED WAY MIAMI INC: $36,300 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $11,400 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI …GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $10,250 · PhilanthropyGREATER MI…+3 more: $368 · PhilanthropyLauren's Kids Inc: $10,205 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $100 · Crime & LegalGIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF TROPICAL FLORIDA INC: $7,500 · Youth Development+1 more: $84 · Youth DevelopmentMIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $2,082 · Human ServicesWHISPERING MANES THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $1,285 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC: $1,021 · Human ServicesBURGER KING FOUNDATION INC: $450 · Human ServicesCHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP INC: $300 · Human Services
Education$277,371Other$206,089Health$64,405Philanthropy$58,318Crime & Legal$10,305Youth Development$7,584Human Services$5,138

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 budgetUniversity of Miami: $244,559 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $40,232 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY MIAMI INC: $36,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $25,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMILLUS HOUSE INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $11,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $10,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLauren's Kids Inc: $10,205 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $9,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF TROPICAL FLORIDA INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $6,966 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE INC: $6,816 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST THOMAS UNIVERSITY INC: $5,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CUSHMAN SCHOOL INC: $4,708 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF MIAMI INC: $4,018 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED STATES SOCCER FEDERATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUMOND CONSERVANCY FOR PRIMATES AND TROPICAL FORESTS INC: $2,241 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $2,082 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGERS INC: $2,041 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDADE HERITAGE TRUST INC: $2,041 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetZOO MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $1,518 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHISPERING MANES THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $1,285 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $1,283 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $1,021 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC: $1,021 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $845 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHAKE A LEG MIAMI INC: $771 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW CITY FREE LIBRARY: $543 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBURGER KING FOUNDATION INC: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $170 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborhood Funders Group: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUndies for Everyone: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVoice for Children Inc AKA Voices for Children of Florida: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: $84 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMLE Foundation Inc: $68 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DEERING ESTATE FOUNDATION INC: $25 over 1y, 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.

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 Miami Foundation …Mightycause Charitabl…The Batchelor Foundat…The Kirk FoundationPeacock Foundation IncUnited Way Miami IncDunspaugh Dalton Foun…The Sain-Orr and Roya…Tonkinson Foundation …Alexander C Macintyre…The Garner FoundationWestminster Barringto…
The Miami Foundation IncFL32.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Miami Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · The Kirk Foundation · Peacock Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · Dunspaugh Dalton Foundation Inc · The Sain-Orr and Royak-Deforest Steadman Foundation · Tonkinson Foundation Inc · Alexander C Macintyre Charitable Trust II · The Garner Foundation · Westminster Barrington Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Friends of the Underline Inc: 66% of income from government
  • Casa Familia Inc: 53% of income from government
  • United Way Miami Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Girl Scout Council of Tropical Florida Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Camillus House Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Historical Association of Southern Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jackson Health Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Lauren's Kids Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Cushman School Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Chapman Partnership Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Zoo Miami Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • St Thomas University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hertz 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 107 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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