· Private foundation
Hirschfeld & Associates 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 96% of HIRSCHFELD & ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 113 grants below total $597,661 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,733,782 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,136,121 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k92 grants · $171k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $427k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cong Ahavas Mordechai Inc | $40,000 |
| Cong Beth Pinchas | $36,000 |
| KEREN ALOZOR INC | $30,000 |
| Cong Beth Pinchas | $30,000 |
| Cong Beth Pinchas | $28,000 |
| KEREN ALOZOR INC | $25,000 |
| Cong Beth Pinchas | $25,000 |
| KEREN ALOZOR INC | $22,000 |
| United Talmudical Academy | $21,000 |
| Cong Ahavas Mordechai Inc | $20,000 |
| KEREN ALOZOR INC | $20,000 |
| Cong Beth Pinchas | $20,000 |
| Cong Ahavas Mordechai Inc | $19,000 |
| Cong Ahavas Mordechai Inc | $15,000 |
| Cong Bais Yaakov Nechamia Dsatmar | $14,100 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your 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.
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 +154% since the first grant, against +82% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2023, 19 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $214k 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
- CBCong Beth Pinchas4× · 2020–2023 · $296k
- CACong Ahavas Mordechai Inc3× · 2021–2023 · $253k
- UTUnited Talmudical Academy4× · 2019–2023 · $67k
Funded once
- IHICHID HATORAH VHACHESEDone grant, 2020 · $120k
- CTCongregation Toldos Avruham Yitzckone grant, 2022 · $29k
- CBCong Bais Yaakov Nechamia Dsatmaone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
To award financial grants to religios orthodox jewish organizations and to help by financial means, the needy, sick and disabled people.
Assistance to the indigent
Charitable organization for the welfare, development, and relief of communities that are overburdened with poverty and help fund judaic studies
Provides finacial assistance to needy individuals and to religious, charitable organizations
To help disadvantaged children, widows and orphans by providing food, clothing, supplies and grants to charitable tax exempt organizations.
Provide financial assistance to needy individuals, and to religious, educational, and charitable organizations in us and abroad.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vaad Harabbanim L'inyanei Tzeduka Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bais Rabaine Charitable 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 21 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
15 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. 15 of the 210 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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 Ojc Fund · Zelig and Rifky Weiss Family Foundation Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Keren Ish Foundation · Strulovich Family Foundation Trust · American Friends of Bnai Levy Foundation · S&E Foundation · Chayim V Chesed · Blum Foundation · Bbc Foundation · R' Shaya Ben Moshe Foundation · Nimlach 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 Hirschfeld & Associates 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.
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.