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Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Hope Harbor Inc$200,000
Nebraska State Historical Foundation$200,000
Kearney Area Community Foundation$101,465
Village of Shelton Nebraska$100,000
Kearney Area Animal Shelter$100,000
Willa Cather Foundation$100,000
Family Service Association of Lincoln$100,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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

AK
ME
VT
MT
MN
IA
OH
CO
NE
VA
MD
OK
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

+40%
+3%

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
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

  • 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
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
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.

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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.

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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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-Nebraska Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/113
Grantees still filing
54/113
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $150,000 · HealthCOLLAGE CENTER: $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 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 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, 4.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD THEATRE FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetCOLLAGE CENTER: $150,000 over 2y, 22% 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 budgetKEARNEY RESCUE CATS: $80,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ANNIE JEFFREY: $80,000 over 4y, 26% 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 budgetNORTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHEART CITY THEATER CO: $50,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetTHE CONNECTION HOMELESS SHELTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 13% 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 budgetSTOWE LAND TRUST: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLITTLE EAGLES LEARNING CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetFRIEND LEARNING CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFILLMORE COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetHOPE- ESPERANZA: $25,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetBETHLEHEM HOUSE: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHASTINGS MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFITTING FUTURES: $25,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetANGELS AMONG US: $25,000 over 3y, 0.8% 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 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 ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗

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 Sherwood Foundati…Nebraska Community Fo…Kearney Area Communit…Lincoln Community Fou…Robert B Daugherty Fo…Peter Kiewit Foundati…Cope Ron & Carol Foun…The Ethel S Abbott Ch…Abel FoundationAcklie Charitable Fou…First Interstate Banc…D F Dillon Foundation
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Stowe Land Trust: 10% 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, 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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 197 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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