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Hirz Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$258kHuman Services$101kEducation$64kInternational$33kYouth Development$33kHousing & Shelter$33kRecreation & Sports$23kPhilanthropy$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k41 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
$1,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARINERS CHURCH$26,327
OLIVE CREST$25,000
FOOTHILL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$13,700
BRAKENS KITCHEN INC$7,523
AFRICA RENEWAL MINISTRIES$7,500
THE GATHERING$6,177
THE BOOK CLUB - TUSTIN$5,950
BALBOA YACHT CLUB MARINETIME SCIENCES AND SEAMANSHIP FOUNDATION$5,000
WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$3,500
Individual grant recipient$3,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$3,000
YOUNG LIFE$2,500
NEIGHBORS TOGETHER CORP$2,000
COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE$2,000
TUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$1,500
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 (FY18–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Mary's Shelter: $2k → 11%Trans Pride Initiative: $500 → 14%QUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%BOTH HANDS FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%Paws4People Foundation: $250 → 12%CJ3 FOUNDATION: $5k → 4%Mary's Shelter: $1k → 11%QUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%Paws4People: $250 → 12%HotBread Kitchen: $250 → 20%Paws4People: $250 → 12%Campkesem: $200 → 14%HIS LITTLE FEET INC: $515 → 14%American Red Cross: $500 → 14%COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE: $2k → 17%Human Options: $3k → 10%Henry Street Settlement: $1k → 17%Sixth Street Community Center Inc: $2k → 17%Harlem Children Zone: $100 → 17%MARYS SHELTER: $1k → 10%MARYS SHELTER: $500 → 10%Mary's Path: $100 → 10%MARY'S SHELTER: $100 → 10%THE BOOK CLUB - TUSTIN: $16k → 10%THE BOOK CLUB - TUSTIN: $6k → 10%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

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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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$577k · 49 repeat orgs$206k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
137

Total granted

$577k
$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+3%

Still filing today

65%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthInternationalEducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • OC
    OLIVE CREST
    7× · 2019–2025 · $58k · revenue +71%
  • TP
    TUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $28k · revenue +55%
  • FE
    FOOTHILL EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2025 · $14k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • YW
    YOUTH WITH A MISSION - SAN DIEGOBAJA
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
  • SC
    Saddleback Church
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
  • RF
    RELIEF FOUNDATION FOR VETERANS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
4
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
5
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
6
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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7
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
8
Childfund Alliance

Childfund alliance is a global network of 11 child-focused development and humanitarian organizations working in more than 70 countries. we help nearly 30 million children and their families to overcome poverty and the underlying…

International
9
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
10
Global Poverty Project Inc

Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.

Social Science
11
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
12
Oxfam-America Inc

Oxfam america (oxfam or oa) is a global organization that fights inequality to end poverty and injustice. we offer lifesaving support in times of crisis and advocate for economic justice, gender equality, and climate action.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oneoc; the most unlike its peers is Peoples of the World Foundation. 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

145 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. 145 of the 221 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
141/145
Grantees still filing
81/145
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARINERS CHURCH: $252,855 · OtherMARINERS CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $23,565 · Other+137 more: $258,340 · Other+137 moreOLIVE CREST: $57,525 · HealthOLIVE CRE…+13 more: $9,740 · Health+13 moreTUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $27,515 · EducationFOOTHILL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $14,200 · EducationTHE GO PROJECT INC: $2,000 · Education+8 more: $5,700 · EducationCOMMON HOPE: $12,772 · InternationalAFRICA RENEWAL MINISTRIES INC: $7,500 · InternationalASSIST INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $3,099 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $3,000 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOPE: $3,000 · InternationalNo Thirsty Child: $2,000 · InternationalTHE WATER PROJECT INC: $2,000 · International+8 more: $7,542 · InternationalBOOK CLUB - TUSTIN: $21,830 · Human ServicesCJ3 FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesMARY'S SHELTER: $3,000 · Human ServicesHuman Options Inc: $2,585 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesMARY'S SHELTER: $1,700 · Human ServicesSIXTH STREET COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,500 · Human Services+9 more: $5,515 · Human ServicesBALBOA YACHT CLUB MARITIME SCIENCES AND SEAMANSHIP FOUNDATION: $12,710 · Recreation & SportsMIRACLES FOR KIDS INC: $12,331 · Recreation & SportsHQ TENNIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $24,124 · Housing & Shelter
Other$534,760Health$67,265Education$49,415International$45,913Human Services$43,130Recreation & Sports$26,041Housing & Shelter$24,124

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetOLIVE CREST: $57,525 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $27,515 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $24,124 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOOK CLUB - TUSTIN: $21,830 over 2y, 47% of budgetFOOTHILL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $14,200 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetCOMMON HOPE: $12,772 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBALBOA YACHT CLUB MARITIME SCIENCES AND SEAMANSHIP FOUNDATION: $12,710 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetMIRACLES FOR KIDS INC: $12,331 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSmart & Final Charitable Foundation: $10,994 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBrackens Kitchen Inc: $7,523 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICA RENEWAL MINISTRIES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORANGE COUNTY COUNCIL 039 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $7,405 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEWPORT HARBOR POST 291 OF THE AMERICAN LEGION INC: $5,180 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLava Mae: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetASSIST INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCJ3 FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $3,099 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOSTER FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTUSTIN AREA COUNCIL FOR FINE ARTS: $3,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLittle Sun Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMarys Kitchen: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARY'S SHELTER: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYouth with a Mission New Beginnings Home: $2,750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLEXINGTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $2,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SENTENCING PROJECT: $2,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHuman Options Inc: $2,585 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $2,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS REPRODUCTIVE CARE - SOUTHEAST: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetElam Ministries: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALBOA ISLAND MUSEUM: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNo Thirsty Child: $2,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetTHE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORS TOGETHER CORPORATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WATER PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GO PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA GROCERS ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAchilles International Inc: $1,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARY'S SHELTER: $1,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE A21 CAMPAIGN INC: $1,675 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIXTH STREET COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHealthwell Foundation: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $1,200 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.

  • Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
  • Who funds TUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOOK CLUB - TUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds FOOTHILL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMON HOPE ↗
  • Who funds BALBOA YACHT CLUB MARITIME SCIENCES AND SEAMANSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MIRACLES FOR KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Smart & Final Charitable Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Brackens Kitchen Inc ↗
  • Who funds AFRICA RENEWAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COUNCIL 039 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH WITH A MISSION - SAN DIEGOBAJA ↗
  • Who funds THE GATHERING ↗
  • Who funds NEWPORT HARBOR POST 291 OF THE AMERICAN LEGION INC ↗
  • Who funds Lava Mae ↗
  • Who funds ASSIST INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds CJ3 FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds THE FOSTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TUSTIN AREA COUNCIL FOR FINE ARTS ↗

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.

Edwards Lifesciences FoundationCA19.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Select Equity Group Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Cashion Foundation · Oneroot Foundation · Croul Family Foundation · Open Society Institute · O L Halsell 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 Hirz Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hirz Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
19report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Hirz Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Hirz 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 221 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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