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Hirschhorn Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Hirschhorn Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Youth Development$20kReligion$6kHealth$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kEducation$2kHousing & Shelter$1kHuman Services$1kEnvironment$750Other$0
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$72k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADAMS PLACE$20,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Brooklymn Prep Scholar Fund: $1k → 17%Hospice Palliative Care: $500 → 15%Boys Farm Inc: $500 → 17%TEMPLE BETH EL: $2k → 13%Camillus House: $500 → 15%Waukesha County Community Dental Clinic: $1k → 5%UConn Foundation: $500 → 11%Child Care Resources: $500 → 10%ADAMS PLACE: $20k → 14%Cystic Fibrosis Foundation: $250 → 8%Camillus House: $500 → 15%American Red Cross: $2k → 15%Best Buddies: $360 → 15%Chabad House: $2k → 15%Seaflower Research and Conservation Foundation Inc: $750 → 15%Advocate Program: $500 → 15%Congregation Beth El: $2k → 15%Nicklaus Childrens Hospital: $1k → 15%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

IL
WI
NY
CT
MD
NC
SC
FL
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 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
Citrus Health Network Inc

To provide primary care and behavioral health services to children, adults, and families in south florida across a broad range of health services and community-based programs; and to oversee the coordinated child welfare system of care…

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2
Community Based Services Inc

Community based services is a not-for-profit provider agency that offers both habilitative and rehabilitative services to the developmentally disabled under the auspices of the state of new york office for people with developmental…

Human Services
3
The Children's Home Society of Florida

Children's home society of florida mission statement:building bridges to success for children

Human Services
4
The Child Center of Ny Inc

The child center of ny strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives.

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5
Florida's Children First Inc

Organization mission: florida's children first is a non-profit, nonpartisan, independent advocacy organization committed to protecting and advancing the rights of children and youth impacted by the child welfare, juvenile justice, and…

Human Services
6
A Friends House Inc

A friends house believes that all children warrant a loving, caring, and safe environment, no matter what circumstances they have encountered in life. the mission is to provide a home that addresses the physical and emotional needs of the…

Human Services
7
Covenant Children's Home Inc

Covenant childrens home is to provide a residence, food and clothing plus a continuum of care including physical, emotional, and spiritual nurturing for neglected, abandoned or abused children.

Human Services
8
Catholic Charities Community Services Inc

Helping our community's most vulnerable with solutions that permanently improve lives. we serve people of all faiths, backgrounds, and abilities with more than 20 programs in a service area covering 67,000 square miles.

Human Services
9
Community Treatment Solutions Inc

A continuum of services to children, adolescents and their families.

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10
Camelot Community Care Inc

To develop and provide services that enable children and families to realize their fullest potential.

Human Services
11
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Cumbrlndglouctersalem Co Inc

To create brighter futures for youth in foster care by training volunteer advocates to speak up for their best interests in court. casa's dedicated team of trustees, employees and volunteers work together to ensure that abused and…

Crime & Legal
12
Caring for Kids Inc

Caring for kids, inc. (cfk) is a private, non-profit, full-service adoption and foster care agency operating since 1995. cfk specializes in diverse and inclusive birth parent, foster care, adoption and behavioral health services. our…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys Farm Inc; the most unlike its peers is Adam's Place Inc. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ADAM'S PLACE INC: $20,000 · Crime & LegalADAM'S PLACE INCTEMPLE BETH EL: $2,400 · OtherTEMPLE BETH ELAmerican Red Cross: $1,800 · OtherAmerican Red CrossChabad House: $1,800 · OtherChabad HouseCongregation Beth El: $1,631 · OtherCongregation Beth ElNicklaus Childrens Hospital: $1,000 · OtherNicklaus Childrens HospitalBrooklymn Prep Scholar Fund: $1,000 · OtherBrooklymn Prep Scholar FundCAMILLUS HOUSE INC: $1,000 · OtherCAMILLUS HOUSE INCSeaflower Research and Conservation Foundation Inc: $750 · OtherSeaflower Research and Conservation Founda…Hospice Palliative Care: $500 · OtherBoys Farm Inc: $500 · OtherADVOCATE PROGRAM INC: $500 · OtherCHILD CARE RESOURCES INC: $500 · OtherWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC: $1,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $250 · HealthTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $500 · EducationBest Buddies International Inc: $360 · InternationalPAWS 4 YOU RESCUE INC: $350 · Animals
Crime & Legal$20,000Other$13,381Health$1,250Education$500International$360Animals$350

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetADAM'S PLACE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCAMILLUS HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys Farm Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD CARE RESOURCES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS 4 YOU RESCUE INC: $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Advocate Program Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Camillus House Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report 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
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.

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 18 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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