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Hirsch-Schwartz Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$497k
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$488k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2020–2022.

Philanthropy$519kArts & Culture$38kEducation$38kRecreation & Sports$32kCivil Rights$17kHealth$15kReligion$13kFood & Nutrition$9kOther$0
02FY2022 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k3 grants · $9k
  • $250k+1 grant · $488k
$6,409
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY INVST CHARITABLE FUND FBO SUSAN H S UA 82290$487,712
SKIDMORE COLLEGE$6,409
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS$2,500
LAKESIDE ASSOCIATION$300
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BLIND SERVICE ASSOCIATION: $300 → 14%COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $1k → 14%CHICAGO COMMONS: $500 → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $500 → 14%ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $500 → 14%NIGHT MINISTRY: $500 → 14%CLEARBROOK: $1k → 14%BETHEL NEW LIFE INC: $500 → 14%HYDE PARK NEIGHBORHOOD CLUB: $300 → 14%HYDE PARK NEIGHBORHOOD CLUB: $250 → 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

VT
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
AL
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.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$123k · 50 repeat orgs$579k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

50 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2022, 47 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
94

Total granted

$123k
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+33%

Still filing today

72%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $488k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

  • University of Chicago
    2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +52%
  • SC
    SKIDMORE COLLEGE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $14k · revenue +19%
  • GP
    GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $7k · revenue +172%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -50%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF IL
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
  • WC
    WBEZ CHICAGO PUBLIC RADIO
    one grant, 2020 · $6k

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
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
2
Chicago Theatre Group Inc

The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…

Arts & Culture
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Children's Museum of Oak Park

To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.

Arts & Culture
6
Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc

The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University ("The Auditorium"), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, is committed to presenting the finest in international, cultural, community and educational programming to Chicago and to the…

Arts & Culture
7
The Chicago Bar Foundation

The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.

Education
8
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
9
Lincoln Park Zoological Society

Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…

Animals
10
Music and Dance Theater Chicago Inc
Arts & Culture
11
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grant Park Orchestral Association and the most unlike its peers is Hanley Foundation. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Dance Arts OrganizationsPregnancy Support ServicesCancer Support ServicesChristian Youth CampsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community Arts CentersPublic Library OperationsLocal History MuseumsJewish Community Organizati…Animal Rescue and ShelterDevelopmental Disabilities …Christian Missionary Organi…Women & Girls Leadership De…Policy Research and AdvocacyAffordable Housing Developm…Food Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsUnited Way Affiliates
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 51 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr19%15%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr14%46%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr19%14%20–35yr14%28%35–55yr14%46%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/106
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,252

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

103 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. 103 of the 149 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)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
103/103
Grantees still filing
81/103
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELITY INVST CHARITABLE FUND FBO SUSAN H S UA 82290 — $487,712 · OtherFIDELITY INVST CHARITABLE FUND FBO SUSAN H S UA 82290+89 more — $87,746 · Other+89 moreUniversity of Chicago — $14,850 · EducationSKIDMORE COLLEGE — $13,909 · EducationTHE CONVERSATION US INC — $2,500 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $2,000 · Education+4 more — $3,450 · EducationBERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Palm Beach County Inc — $3,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $2,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN — $2,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $2,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE PARKS — $30,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $510 · Recreation & SportsGRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION — $6,620 · Arts & CultureSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC — $4,200 · Arts & CultureChicago Symphony Orchestra — $1,000 · Arts & CultureLyric Opera of Chicago — $1,000 · Arts & CultureMIAMI CITY BALLET INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Architecture Foundation — $850 · Arts & Culture+22 more — $8,733 · Arts & CulturePlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $3,500 · HealthSOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC — $3,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $1,650 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC — $1,100 · HealthFace the Future Foundation — $800 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $500 · Health+3 more — $650 · HealthSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $5,000 · Crime & LegalREADING BETWEEN THE LINES NFP — $750 · Crime & LegalPublic Interest Law Initiative — $700 · Crime & Legal
Other$575,458Education$36,709Philanthropy$32,000Recreation & Sports$30,510Arts & Culture$23,403Health$11,700Crime & Legal$6,450

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 budgetFRIENDS OF THE PARKS — $30,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $14,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE — $13,909 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION — $6,620 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC — $4,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Palm Beach County Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONVERSATION US INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRole Model Movement Inc (NFP) — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC — $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFrancis W Parker School — $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GUATEMALAN-MAYA CENTER INC — $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEARBROOK — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEBORAH'S PLACE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Architecture Foundation — $850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARFIELD PARK CONSERVATORY ALLIANCE — $809 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Council on Urban Affairs — $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFace the Future Foundation — $800 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc — $775 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING BETWEEN THE LINES NFP — $750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPorchlight Music Theatre Chicago — $750 over 2y, 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 Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …Jewish Federation of …Lloyd a Fry FoundationPolk Bros Foundation …Dr Scholl FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…United Way of Metropo…Motorola Solutions Fo…The Rhoades FoundationElizabeth Morse Geniu…Richard and Mary L Gr…
The Chicago Community TrustIL30.6× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Dr Scholl Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Motorola Solutions Foundation · The Rhoades Foundation · Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust · Richard and Mary L Gray 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-Schwartz 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — 1% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 149 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines