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Hirsch 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $360k
- $50k–250k29 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+9 grants · $3.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMIT | $1,000,000 |
| ST MARKS SCHOOL OF TEXAS | $500,000 |
| PARKLAND FOUNDATION | $446,000 |
| CENTER FOR EUROPEAN POLICY ANALYSIS | $445,000 |
| UNITED TO LEARN | $400,000 |
| LIFT | $333,000 |
| CENTER FOR EUROPEAN POLICY ANALYSIS | $325,000 |
| THE HOCKADAY SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL | $250,000 |
| TEMPLE EMANU-EL | $230,000 |
| SUMMER SEARCH | $225,000 |
| THE DALLAS FOUNDATION | $201,500 |
| TRINITY PARK CONSERVANCY | $200,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $200,000 |
| THE COMMIT PARTNERSHIP | $125,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.9M) 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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 9 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $485k 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
- CFCENTER FOR EUROPEAN POLICY ANALYSIS8× · 2017–2024 · $5.6M · revenue +124% · 28% of their budget
- PFPARKLAND FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +18%
- CCOMMIT2DALLAS8× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +335%
Funded once
- VUVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $200k
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +64%- SMSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +163%
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
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 chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
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…
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…
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.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Uwmd is a community-based social change organization that unites the community to create lasting change. for 100 years, we've brought together passionate change-makers, alongside corporate, civic and nonprofit partners, to strengthen…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Learning Disabilities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Morton H Meyerson Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
93 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. 93 of the 130 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 CENTER FOR EUROPEAN POLICY ANALYSIS ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PARKLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMIT2DALLAS ↗
- Who funds LIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE ↗
- Who funds Trinity Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds ROMANIAN CHILDREN'S RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds VOGEL ALCOVE ↗
- Who funds DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB ↗
- Who funds FAMILY GATEWAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREEN CITY FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds Momentous Institute ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Texas 2036 ↗
- Who funds HOCKADAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CASA ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FORWARD ↗
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 Dallas Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Byrne Family Foundation Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · The Hoglund Foundation · George & Fay Young Foundation Inc · The Perot Foundation
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 Hirsch 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Community Access to the Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
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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