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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL$250,000
THE HOCKADAY SCHOOL$250,000
TEMPLE EMANU-EL$230,000
SUMMER SEARCH$225,000
THE DALLAS FOUNDATION$201,500
TEACH FOR AMERICA$200,000
TRINITY PARK CONSERVANCY$200,000
THE COMMIT PARTNERSHIP$125,000
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 (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 its 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
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
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
NM
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

+26%
+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
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

  • 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

  • SM
    SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +163%
  • VU
    VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • VU
    VILLANOVA UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +39%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Learning Disabilities Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

93 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. 93 of the 130 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/93
Grantees still filing
61/93
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetROMANIAN CHILDREN'S RELIEF INC: $600,000 over 6y, 52% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $600,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE: $520,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetCHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB: $500,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetDURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE: $500,000 over 5y, 5.6% 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 budgetTexas 2036: $300,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC: $300,000 over 2y, 1.3% 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 budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $200,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $200,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBroadway Dallas Inc: $200,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetFOREFRONT LIVING: $100,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 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 ROMANIAN CHILDREN'S RELIEF INC ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds VOGEL ALCOVE ↗
  • Who funds CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB ↗
  • Who funds DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE ↗
  • 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 Texas 2036 ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 Dallas FoundationMeadows Foundation IncCommunities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…The Addy FoundationByrne Family Foundati…United Way of Metropo…The Eugene McDermott …Texas Women's Foundat…The Hoglund FoundationGeorge & Fay Young Fo…The Perot Foundation
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Community Access to the Arts Inc: 2% 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, 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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 130 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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