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Howard T Hirschy Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$152kEducation$7kHealth$2kHuman Services$1kRecreation & Sports$400Civil Rights$200Arts & Culture$200Housing & Shelter$200Other$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$167k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
McConnell Baptist Church$6,500
A Shepherds Life Ministries$4,000
7117 Ministries$1,500
Towns County School Foundation$300
Angel Tree$100
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JAMBOS: $100 → 9%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$144k · 24 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
27

Total granted

$144k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
-12%

Still filing today

21%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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

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HealthReligionEducationHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • DT
    Dallas Theological Seminary
    3× · 2022–2024 · $26k · revenue +31%
  • 7M
    7117 MINISTRIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +83%
  • AM
    AMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING
    2× · 2018–2019 · $300 · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • WC
    WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • CF
    CHRIST FOR INDIA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
  • YH
    YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -8%
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
Association for Biblical Higher Education

Abhe is the quality and credibility resource partner that connects efforts among christian postsecondary educational institutions and with others invested in serious bible learning that shapes a life of godly influence and service to the…

Education
2
American Board of Medical Specialties

In collaboration with its member boards, abms creates standards for board certification for physicians and medical specialists. specifically, for initial and continuing certification. abms and its member boards establish rigorous standards…

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3
American College of Radiology

The american college of radiology (acr) is organized to advance radiology science, practice and access, improve quality and safety, provide continuing education for radiology and allied professionals, and achieve better outcomes through…

Health
4
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
5
Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
6
American Gastroenterological Association Inc

The purpose of american gastroenterological association, inc. is to promote the common business interests of its members by promoting the image of the industry as a whole; to serve as a central, unified voice for the specialty of…

Community Improvement
7
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
8
American Association for Respiratory Care

Aarc's mission is to be the foremost professional association promoting respiratory therapists. the aarc advances professional excellence and science in the practice of repiratory therapy, serving the professional, patients, caregivers and…

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9
American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine

Aacom leads and advocates for the osteopathic medical education community to improve the health of the public. aacom represents and advances the continuum of medical education by: supporting our member institutions as they educate the…

Education
10
American Association of State Colleges and Universities

Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…

Education
11
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

Advance pharmacy education, research, scholarship, practice and service, in partnership with members and stakeholders, to improve health for all.

Health
12
American Health Care Association

Improving lives by delivering solutions for quality care.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christ for India Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jambos 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

18 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. 18 of the 56 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
7/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MCCONNELL MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH INC: $47,400 · OtherMCCONNELL MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH INCMEADOWBROOK CHURCH INC: $20,000 · OtherMEADOWBROOK CHURCH INCMOUNTAIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $14,400 · OtherMOUNTAIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHSHEPHEROES: $7,000 · OtherSHEPHEROESMcConnell Baptist Church: $6,500 · OtherSOUTHEASTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SE: $5,050 · Other+37 more: $22,850 · Other+37 moreDallas Theological Seminary: $26,436 · EducationDallas Theological …YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $300 · Education7117 MINISTRIES INC: $11,100 · Religion+2 more: $400 · ReligionSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $200 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $100 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $100 · HealthAMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING: $300 · PhilanthropyALMOST THERE INC: $200 · Housing & ShelterJambos Inc: $100 · Human Services
Other$123,200Education$27,736Religion$11,500Health$500Philanthropy$300Housing & Shelter$200Human Services$100

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 budgetDallas Theological Seminary: $26,436 over 3y, 0.0% of budget7117 MINISTRIES INC: $11,100 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetCHRIST FOR INDIA INC: $1,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTaylor University: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALMOST THERE INC: $200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPurpose Driven Connection DBA Pastor Ricks Daily Hope: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJambos Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH AND FREEDOM COALITION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWISS HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe American Legion: $50 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 Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
  • Who funds 7117 MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRIST FOR INDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Taylor University ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING ↗
  • Who funds ALMOST THERE INC ↗
  • Who funds Purpose Driven Connection DBA Pastor Ricks Daily Hope ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Jambos Inc ↗

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.

Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL10.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Howard T Hirschy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard T Hirschy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 56 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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