Nebraska · Private foundation
Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $11M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 60
- Grants FY2025
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 51
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $102M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $970k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 56 | $11M | 64% |
| FY2024 | 51 | $9.4M | 47% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $11M | 50% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $11M | 43% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $9.5M | 48% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $7.1M | 58% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $8.5M | 48% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $6.6M | 75% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $10,603,000 | 8 | 1% |
| York University | $9,400,000 | 7 | 15% |
| City of Kearney | $9,394,405 | 9 | n/a |
| Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation | $5,568,549 | 2 | 4% |
| Museum of Nebraska Art | $5,025,000 | 4 | 23% |
| Westview Boys Home Inc | $2,048,908 | 4 | 45% |
| Community Hospital Association of McCook | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Family Advocacy Network | $1,000,000 | 1 | 63% |
| Central Community College Foundation Inc | $750,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Kearney Tennis Association | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 75 recipients with no EIN on record ($31M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 96 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc give?
- Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc reported 60 grants totaling $11,070,939 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 51 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (32%), Education (27%), Public Benefit (12%).
- Who are Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Nebraska Foundation ($11M), York University ($9.4M), City of Kearney ($9.4M).
- Does Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sherwood Foundation, Nebraska Community Foundation, Kearney Area Community Foundation.
- Where is Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc based?
- Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc is based in NE.
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