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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.

$7.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
67
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$11MArts & Culture$7.5MSocial Science$5.6MEmployment$4.4MHealth$4.3MPhilanthropy$2.0MEnvironment$2.0MInternational$1.6MOther$0
02FY2024 · 67 grants

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
$50,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $50k → 12%GREEN CITY FORCE: $150k → 20%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $50k → 12%GREEN CITY FORCE: $100k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $50k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $25k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $25k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $25k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $25k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $25k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $25k → 20%COMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS INC: $10k → 14%COMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS INC: $10k → 14%METRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALLIANCE: $100k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $225k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $80k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $75k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $35k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $30k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $25k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $25k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $25k → 14%HOUSING FORWARD: $75k → 14%DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $15k → 14%HOUSING FORWARD: $50k → 14%DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $15k → 14%DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $15k → 14%DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $15k → 14%DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $15k → 14%DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $15k → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $10k → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $10k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN COMMUNITIES AND SERVICES FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%VICKERY MEADOW LEARNING CENTER: $65k → 14%BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $50k → 14%BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $50k → 14%BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $50k → 14%BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $50k → 14%BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $40k → 14%BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $30k → 14%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

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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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$43M · 79 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
38

Total granted

$43M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+5%

Still filing today

73%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $485k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR EUROPEAN POLICY ANALYSIS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.6M · revenue +124% · 28% of their budget
  • PF
    PARKLAND FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +18%
  • C
    COMMIT2DALLAS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +335%

Funded once

  • VU
    VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +64%
  • SM
    SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one 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.

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
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
2
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
3
Chicago Public Education Fund

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.

Education
4
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

5
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

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…

Education
6
Dallas College Foundation Inc

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.

Education
7
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

8
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
9
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
10
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.

11
The Common Application Inc

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…

Education
12
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc

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…

Philanthropy

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%2%<5yr16%6%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr10%27%35–55yr13%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%1%<5yr16%4%5–10yr20%27%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr10%26%35–55yr13%13%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/93
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,711

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

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 20172025, 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/93
Grantees still filing
62/93
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMIT2DALLAS — $2,675,000 · EducationCOMMIT2DALLASLIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE — $2,567,000 · EducationLIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FO…Teach for America Inc — $1,650,000 · EducationTeach for America IncST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS — $1,400,000 · EducationST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXASUNITED TO LEARN — $1,121,000 · EducationUNITED TO LEARNTHE LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL — $460,000 · Education+16 more — $1,910,000 · Education+16 moreTEMPLE EMANU-EL — $995,000 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU-ELNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $885,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKTHE KENNEDY CENTER — $822,162 · OtherTHE KENNEDY CENTERNOLS — $700,000 · OtherVOGEL ALCOVE — $520,000 · OtherSUMMER SEARCH — $1,395,000 · OtherSUMMER SEARCHROMANIAN CHILDREN'S RELIEF INC — $600,000 · Other+72 more — $9,240,100 · Other+72 moreGEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM — $4,395,000 · Arts & CultureGEORGIA O'KEEFFE…Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — $1,076,900 · Arts & CultureDallas Holocaust…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $600,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INST…+4 more — $527,500 · Arts & Culture+4 moreCENTER FOR EUROPEAN POLICY ANALYSIS — $5,570,000 · Social ScienceCENTER FOR EU…PARKLAND FOUNDATION — $2,894,000 · Health+6 more — $211,500 · HealthTrinity Park Conservancy — $2,000,000 · Community ImprovementNEW PROFIT INC — $165,000 · Community Improvement+5 more — $170,000 · Community ImprovementTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $1,164,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS — $305,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL — $200,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY FOUNDATION OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS — $160,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater Houston — $100,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $35,000 · Philanthropy
Education$11,783,000Other$15,157,262Arts & Culture$6,599,400Social Science$5,570,000Health$3,105,500Community Improvement$2,335,000Philanthropy$1,964,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCENTER FOR EUROPEAN POLICY ANALYSIS — $5,570,000 over 8y, 28% of budgetGEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM — $4,395,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetPARKLAND FOUNDATION — $2,894,000 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetCOMMIT2DALLAS — $2,675,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetLIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE — $2,567,000 over 8y, 41% of budgetTrinity Park Conservancy — $2,000,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $1,650,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS — $1,400,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH — $1,395,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $1,164,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED TO LEARN — $1,121,000 over 7y, 9.1% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — $1,076,900 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $885,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $600,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetROMANIAN CHILDREN'S RELIEF INC — $600,000 over 6y, 52% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE — $520,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetDURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE — $500,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetCHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB — $500,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC — $495,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetTHE LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL — $460,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetGREEN CITY FORCE INC — $450,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetMomentous Institute — $370,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetNew York University — $350,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $311,100 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS — $305,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC — $300,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTexas 2036 — $300,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHOCKADAY SCHOOL — $275,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER — $270,000 over 6y, 23% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC — $235,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetDALLAS CASA — $230,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD — $225,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBIG THOUGHT — $205,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBroadway Dallas Inc — $200,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK — $200,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL — $200,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER — $175,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TEACHING TRUST — $175,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetEDUCATION OPENS DOORS INC — $175,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetNEW PROFIT INC — $165,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY FOUNDATION OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS — $160,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCHORDOMA FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

  • 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.

The Dallas FoundationTX44.4× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University12% of income from government
  • Community Access to the Arts Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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, FY2025

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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How do I get to Hirsch Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hirsch 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 130 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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