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Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11M
Granted FY2025still arriving
60
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$5.5M
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$26MEducation$23MPublic Benefit$9.6MArts & Culture$6.4MCommunity Improvement$3.9MHuman Services$2.8MRecreation & Sports$1.9MCrime & Legal$1.1MOther$0
02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $540k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+8 grants · $9.1M
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$102M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation$5,500,000
Community Hospital Association of McCook$1,000,000
Central Community College Foundation$750,000
City Of Kearney$700,000
University Of Nebraska Foundation$375,000
Individual grant recipient$300,000
Children's Hospital Foundation$250,000
Westview Boys Home$250,000
Nebraska State Historical Foundation$200,000
Hope Harbor Inc$200,000
Kearney Area Community Foundation$101,465
Family Service Association of Lincoln$100,000
Willa Cather Foundation$100,000
Village of Shelton Nebraska$100,000
Kearney Area Animal Shelter$100,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $824k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Heartland Equine Therapeutic Riding Academy: $6k → 6%Holdrege Area Early Childhood Partnership Inc: $9k → 10%Fullerton's Future Inc: $15k → 11%Spring Creek Kids Inc: $25k → 11%Hope Harbor Inc: $200k → 12%HOPE - Esperanza: $25k → 12%Senior Citizen Program Inc: $20k → 12%Good Life Community Development: $25k → 13%Franklin County Senior Citizen's Services Inc: $3k → 13%Heartland Equine Therapeutic Riding Academy: $6k → 6%Friend Learning Center: $25k → 9%Franklin County Senior Citizen's Services Inc: $2k → 13%Stratton Industrial Commission Inc: $10k → 15%Cambridge Community Daycare Foundation: $20k → 15%Little Eagles Learning Center: $25k → 12%Boys Town National Research Hospital: $10k → 12%Open Door Mission: $7k → 12%Boys Town: $10k → 12%Family Service Association of Lincoln: $100k → 13%Chariots4Hope Inc: $20k → 12%Chariots4Hope Inc: $20k → 12%Chariots4Hope Inc: $20k → 12%Heart Heroes Inc: $5k → 12%Center for Legal Immigration Assistance: $15k → 13%Dreamweaver Foundation: $10k → 12%Compass: $25k → 13%Dreamweaver Foundation: $10k → 12%Girls On The Run Of Nebraska: $17k → 13%Youth Emergency Services Inc: $25k → 12%Visionary Youth: $15k → 13%Kearney Jubilee Center: $100k → 13%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$70M · 63 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

63 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
96

Total granted

$70M
$7.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
0%

Still filing today

59%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $11M · revenue +70%
  • YU
    YORK UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $9.4M · revenue +54%
  • GS
    GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2025 · $5.6M · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • FA
    Family Advocacy Network
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -64% · 63% of their budget
  • CC
    Central Community College
    one grant, 2019 · $1.0M
  • UO
    University of Nebraska
    one grant, 2018 · $804k

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
Jefferson Community Health Center Inc

Inspiring healthy living by providing exceptional health and life services for every person, every time.

Health
2
Cardinal Child Development Center

Non-profit learning center providing safe, affordable, high- quality, and reliable child care, for all young children in randolph, nebraska and the surrounding area.

Human Services
3
Community Action of Nebraska Inc

Mission: community action of nebraska strives to alleviate poverty through enhancing program development, providing technical assistance, and advocating public policy to support all community action agencies in nebraska.

Community Improvement
4
Nebraska Children & Families Foundation

Nebraska children's mission is to create positive change for children through community engagement. our vision is a nebraska where all children will have the resources and support to reach their full potential. our values are (1)…

Philanthropy
5
Community Justice Center

A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.

Crime & Legal
6
Nebraska Youth Center

The center operates a group home for troubled youth, ages 12-18, in western nebraska.

7
Lincoln County Community Development Corporation

To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.

Philanthropy
8
Central Nebraska Community Action Partnership Inc

Partnering with individuals and families to encourage economic stability to gain independence through community-based solutions.

9
Nebraska Coalition for Patient Safety

Improve healthcare by collecting, analyzing, and sharing information about patient safety; and to ensure compliance with the patient safety improvement act.

Public Benefit
10
Health Center Association of Nebraska

Support the state's federally qualified health centers in providing accessible and quality health care.

Health
11
Nebraska Hospital Association Research and Educational Foundation

To provide educational opportunities that enable nha members to be up-to- date and responsive to health care challenges and reforms. the foundation is committed to providing the highest-quality, cost-effective and readily accessible health…

12
Educare of Lincoln Inc

To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-Nebraska Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hartington Creative Council. 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 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%11%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr15%25%35–55yr17%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr16%7%20–35yr15%44%35–55yr17%45%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.8% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/122
the rest of the field
11%
1,833/16,719

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

113 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 113 of the 197 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)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/113
Grantees still filing
53/113
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHI Health Good Samaritan Foundation — $10,411,000 · OtherCHI Health Good Samaritan FoundationCity of Kearney — $9,394,405 · OtherCity of KearneyCleveland Clinic — $4,000,000 · OtherCleveland ClinicIndividual grant recipient — $3,020,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMayo Foundation — $3,000,000 · OtherMayo FoundationWESTVIEW BOYS HOME INC — $2,048,908 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $1,953,979 · Other+116 more — $10,711,260 · Other+116 moreUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $10,603,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUND…YORK UNIVERSITY — $9,400,000 · EducationYORK UNIVERSITYCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $750,000 · Education+7 more — $226,500 · EducationGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $5,568,549 · PhilanthropyGOOD SAMA…KEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $566,820 · PhilanthropyKEARNEY A…THE MADONNA FOUNDATION — $375,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MADON…+3 more — $115,000 · PhilanthropyMUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART — $5,025,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION — $325,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more — $358,500 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION OF MCCOOK — $1,000,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation — $250,000 · HealthCOLLAGE CENTER — $150,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $150,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR ANNIE JEFFREY — $80,000 · HealthAssure Womens Center — $70,000 · Health+9 more — $261,634 · HealthFamily Advocacy Network — $1,000,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HARBOR INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN — $100,000 · Human ServicesKEARNEY JUBILEE CENTER — $100,000 · Human Services+23 more — $464,372 · Human ServicesKEARNEY AREA ANIMAL SHELTER INC — $400,000 · AnimalsKEARNEY RESCUE CATS — $80,000 · Animals+1 more — $16,422 · Animals
Other$44,539,552Education$20,979,500Philanthropy$6,625,369Arts & Culture$5,708,500Health$1,961,634Human Services$1,864,372Animals$496,422

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $10,603,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetYORK UNIVERSITY — $9,400,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $5,568,549 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART — $5,025,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetWESTVIEW BOYS HOME INC — $2,048,908 over 4y, 45% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION OF MCCOOK — $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFamily Advocacy Network — $1,000,000 over 1y, 63% of budgetCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $750,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetKEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $566,820 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetCoastal Mountains Land Trust — $445,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetKEARNEY AREA ANIMAL SHELTER INC — $400,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetTHE MADONNA FOUNDATION — $375,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION — $325,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation — $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD THEATRE FOUNDATION — $175,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetCOLLAGE CENTER — $150,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetHASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKEARNEY JUBILEE CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ANNIE JEFFREY — $80,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetKEARNEY RESCUE CATS — $80,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetMID-NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEBRASKA DIAPER BANK — $75,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetAssure Womens Center — $70,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNEBRASKA STATE FAIR 1868 FOUNDATION — $62,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetBryan Foundation — $60,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHARIOTS4HOPE INC — $60,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTHE CONNECTION HOMELESS SHELTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetHEART CITY THEATER CO — $50,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetNORTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFoundation for Thayer County Health Services — $48,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetOMAHA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $47,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLYONHEART EQUINE ASSISTED LEARNING — $45,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetCOMPASS — $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLET'S START TALKING MINISTRY — $34,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetKEARNEY BUFFALO COUNTY CASA — $30,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetTHIRD CITY COMMUNITY CLINC INC — $25,474 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFITTING FUTURES — $25,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetLITTLE EAGLES LEARNING CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetBETHLEHEM HOUSE — $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetANGELS AMONG US — $25,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFILLMORE COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetFRIEND LEARNING CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHASTINGS MUSEUM — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHOPE- ESPERANZA — $25,000 over 1y, 32% 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds YORK UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART
  • Who funds WESTVIEW BOYS HOME INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION OF MCCOOK
  • Who funds Family Advocacy Network
  • Who funds CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds KEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds KEARNEY TENNIS ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds Coastal Mountains Land Trust
  • Who funds KEARNEY AREA ANIMAL SHELTER INC
  • Who funds THE MADONNA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation
  • Who funds HOPE HARBOR INC
  • Who funds WORLD THEATRE FOUNDATION

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 Sherwood FoundationNE66.2× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sherwood Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Kearney Area Community Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust · The Ethel S Abbott Charitable Foundation · Abel Foundation · Acklie Charitable Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · D F Dillon 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 Family Foundation Inc 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 · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 10%
  • Stowe Land Trust10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
34report 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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc 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 197 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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