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Hertzman Foundation Inc

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.

$149k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.

Philanthropy$214kHealth$57kReligion$40kEducation$36kFood & Nutrition$21kRecreation & Sports$17kHuman Services$16kYouth Development$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE$55,250
METRO UNITED WAY$10,000
MIRACOSTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION$10,000
KENTUCKY GOLF FOUNDATION$8,000
THE TEMPLE$7,285
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF KENTUCKIANA$7,020
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK$5,000
AXIS MUNDI CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH$5,000
502 CIRCLE FOUNDATION$5,000
OCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC$5,000
FEEDING SAN DIEGO$4,500
CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL$3,500
MAKE A WISH$3,000
CONGREGATION OCEAN REEF$3,000
LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC$3,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GENERATE HOPE: $1k → 11%GENERATE HOPE: $1k → 11%GENERATE HOPE: $400 → 11%PRISONER'S HOPE: $600 → 15%THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $4k → 15%THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $250 → 15%THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $250 → 15%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $5k → 15%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MA
OR
IN
OH
CA
KY
TN
NC
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$224k · 29 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
27

Total granted

$224k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+14%

Still filing today

72%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • MC
    MIRACOSTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +64%
  • TB
    THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $14k · revenue +35%
  • FS
    FEEDING SAN DIEGO
    3× · 2022–2024 · $11k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $9k
  • OR
    OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -7%
  • BC
    BUCKEYE CRUISE FOR CANCER
    one grant, 2023 · $4k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Wayside House Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.

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2
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
4
Kidspeace National Centers for Kids in Crisis

Kidspeace, founded in 1882, is a healthcare nonprofit that is dedicated to providing hope, help, and healing to children, adults, and those who love them.continued on schedule o.with 40 offices and facilities across seven states, this…

Health
5
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
6
Trivium Life Services

Behavioral health, long-term support services, mental health therapy, substance, alcohol and drug abuse treatment as well as domestic violence offender intervention services

Employment
7
Meta House Inc

Meta house ends the generational cycle of addiction by healing women and strengthening families.

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8
St Martin Hospital Inc

To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
9
Kidspeace National Centers of Georgia

Kidspeace, founded in 1882, is a healthcare nonprofit that is dedicated to providing hope, help, and healing to children, adults, and those who love them.continued on schedule o.with 40 offices and facilities across seven states, this…

Human Services
10
Southern Indiana Community Health Care

To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…

Health
11
St Vincent Depaul Rehabilitation Service of Texas Inc

Setting a new standard of employment for people who have disabilities and chronic medical conditions.

Employment
12
Impact Community Action Partnership Inc

Reducing the barriers and burdens that families in poverty experience by increasing access to essential needs.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St John Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Maple Leaf 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyRegional Community Developm…San Diego Community Foundat…Faith-Based Holistic SupportChristian Ministry Organiza…Family Philanthropic Founda…Dog and Animal RescueFlorida Keys Community Orga…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr18%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%2%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr14%6%35–55yr18%60%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
12%
2,432/20,274

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.

04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 62 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
25/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC — $165,250 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INCMETRO UNITED WAY INC — $30,000 · PhilanthropyMETRO UNITED WAY INCOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $13,915 · PhilanthropyOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC+1 more — $3,000 · PhilanthropyTHE TEMPLE CONGREGATION ADATH ISREAL B RITH SHOLOM INC — $20,355 · OtherTHE TEMPLE CONGREGATION ADATH ISREAL …OCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · OtherOCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION …THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC — $13,520 · OtherTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INCIndividual grant recipient — $9,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL — $8,600 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH ISRAELCONGREGATION OCEAN REEF INC — $8,550 · OtherCONGREGATION OCEAN REEF INCMAKE A WISH — $7,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES — $6,200 · OtherFEEDING SAN DIEGO — $11,000 · OtherFEEDING SAN DIEGOLOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $9,500 · OtherLOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION IN…+26 more — $45,900 · Other+26 moreMIRACOSTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationCHAMPIONS FOR LITERACY — $2,500 · EducationBLUEGRASS CENTER FOR AUTISM INC — $2,000 · EducationCOLLEGE DREAMS INC — $2,000 · EducationAXIS MUNDI CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH — $17,000 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $2,000 · HealthNORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 · HealthThe Epilepsy Foundation of Kentuckiana Inc — $1,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,000 · HealthCerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc — $1,000 · HealthBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC — $4,200 · Human ServicesWAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION — $3,000 · Human ServicesGENERATEHOPE INC — $2,400 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC — $2,000 · Human Services+1 more — $600 · Human ServicesKENTUCKY GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 · Arts & CultureOCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA — $5,000 · AnimalsHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER — $3,500 · AnimalsKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE — $2,215 · AnimalsAnimal Care Society Inc — $1,000 · Animals
Philanthropy$212,165Other$154,625Education$31,500Health$24,000Human Services$22,200Arts & Culture$13,000Animals$11,715

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC — $165,250 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMETRO UNITED WAY INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMIRACOSTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAXIS MUNDI CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH — $17,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $13,915 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC — $13,520 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO — $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $9,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKENTUCKY GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC — $4,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Louisville Athletic Association — $4,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMPACT 100 INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHAMPIONS FOR LITERACY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGENERATEHOPE INC — $2,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE — $2,215 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLUEGRASS CENTER FOR AUTISM INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE DREAMS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN CENTER INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEALING PLACE INC — $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKentucky Race Track Chaplaincy Inc — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Epilepsy Foundation of Kentuckiana Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Care Society Inc — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRISONERS HOPE INC — $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MORTON CENTER INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…The Gheens Foundation…Kosair Charities Comm…Honorable Order of Ke…Republic Bank Foundat…Elite Homes Charitabl…Snowy Owl Foundation …The Whas Crusade for …Nicklies Foundation I…Cralle Foundation Inc
The Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY38.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Elite Homes Charitable Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · Nicklies Foundation Inc · Cralle 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 Hertzman 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • College Dreams Inc — 23% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
9report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 62 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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