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Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
174
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$455k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Environment$15MPhilanthropy$2.8MAnimals$2.5MPublic Benefit$2.0MCivil Rights$1.9MEducation$1.2MRecreation & Sports$1.2MCommunity Improvement$1.0MOther$0
02FY2024 · 174 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $135k
  • $10k–50k88 grants · $2.1M
  • $50k–250k55 grants · $3.6M
  • $250k+3 grants · $955k
$30,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$107M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Vanguard Charitable$455,000
Rockefeller Family Fund Inc$250,000
Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas Inc$250,000
Public Citizen Foundation Inc$175,000
Center for Reproductive Rights$150,000
Air Alliance Houston$120,000
Healthy Gulf$100,000
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc$100,000
Nuclear Information & Resource Service$90,000
Bayou City Waterkeeper$80,000
LINK Houston$77,000
Commission Shift$76,000
The Film Collaborative Inc$75,000
Lone Star Legal Aid$75,000
Texas Land Trust Council$75,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $413k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Tides Center: $40k → 20%Tides Center: $40k → 20%Tides Center: $60k → 10%Tides Center: $60k → 10%The Afiya Center: $65k → 14%Open Door Preschools: $30k → 10%Third Ward Community Fund Management Corporation: $8k → 16%Target Hunger: $20k → 16%Open Door Preschools: $40k → 10%Texas Network of Youth Services Incorporated: $50k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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ID
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MD
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DC
LA
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GA
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 9% of Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 68% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 79% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.6% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$23M · 163 repeat orgs$5.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

163 repeat relationships — 102 still active in FY2024, 61 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

163
116

Total granted

$23M
$4.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+19%

Still filing today

90%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $789k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentAnimalsCivil RightsArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $652k · revenue +69%
  • PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS
    4× · 2020–2024 · $477k · revenue +95%
  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
    6× · 2019–2024 · $445k · revenue +139%

Funded once

  • TS
    TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO
    one grant, 2022 · $501k · revenue +21%
  • CE
    CLEAN ENERGY FUND OF TEXASgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +241% · 50% of their budget
  • PC
    Public Citizen
    one grant, 2021 · $175k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Texas Campaign for the Environment

Empowering Texans to fight pollution through sustained grassroots organizing campaigns that shift corporate and governmental policy.

Environment
2
Texas Clean Energy Coalition
—
3
Texas Foundation for Conservation

Fish and wildlife conservation and outreach including public awareness. Fifteen public relations campaign on social media with over 7.5 million impressions. Twenty plus speaking engagements to a variety of conservation organizations…

Animals
4
Bexar Land Trust Inc dba Green Spaces Alliance of South Texas

The mission of Bexar Land Trust (Green Spaces) is to sustain the natural environment and enhance urban spaces through land conservation, community engagement, and education.

Environment
5
Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust

We acquire properties to be donated to the National Park Service and state entities and advocate for protection of Big Thicket natural resources.

Environment
6
Guadalupe River Park Conservancy

Guadalupe River Park Conservancy provides community leadership for the development and active use of Guadalupe River Park & Garden through education, advocacy and stewardship.

Environment
7
Farm and City

Farm&City is an independent 501c3 think & do tank dedicated to high quality urban & rural human habitat in Texas in perpetuity. We improve public policies to improve millions of Texans lives in ways that preserve and enhance Texas land,…

Education
8
Trinity Park Conservancy

Trinity Park Conservancy champions the transformation of the Trinity River to become the heart of Dallas. With the community, the Conservancy will design public spaces that unite us, enrich people's lives through access to nature, create…

Community Improvement
9
Native Plant Society of Texas

The mission of the native plant society of texas is promote conservation, research and utilization of native plants and planthabitats of texas through education, outreach and example.

Environment
10
Willow Waterhole Greenspace Conservancy

The Willow Waterhole Greenspace Conservancy ("Willow Waterhole") serves as the leading advocate for public greenspace improvements and nature preservation at the 291-acre Willow Waterhole Greenway. (See Schedule O)Willow Waterhole partners…

Environment
11
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
12
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas and the most unlike its peers is The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity College Foundatio…Community FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Youth Development ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportAnimal Rescue and ShelterWomen & Girls Leadership De…Affordable Housing Developm…Community Arts CentersChristian Youth CampsFood Banks and PantriesPublic Library OperationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyPregnancy Support ServicesLocal History MuseumsChristian Missionary Organi…Local Food System Organizat…Independent K-12 SchoolsEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%8%<5yr16%13%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr10%20%35–55yr13%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%4%<5yr16%11%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr10%21%35–55yr13%17%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%2/264
the rest of the field
15%
20,231/136,540

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 251 of the 323 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
55
Early backer (in before they grew)
246/251
Grantees still filing
163/251
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS — $477,425 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $445,000 · EnvironmentAIR ALLIANCE HOUSTON — $430,500 · EnvironmentBAYOU CITY WATERKEEPER INC — $395,500 · Environment+62 more — $8,544,500 · Environment+62 morePublic Citizen Foundation Inc — $600,000 · OtherPublic Citizen Foundation IncVERDE VALLEY SCHOOL — $325,000 · OtherTexas Campaign for the Environment Fund — $370,000 · Other+82 more — $7,769,864 · Other+82 moreVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $1,718,550 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD C…ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND INC — $325,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLE…HOPEWELL FUND — $250,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL F…GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $100,000 · PhilanthropyHouston Parks Board — $100,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $65,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $652,000 · Civil RightsAvow Foundation for Abortion Access — $353,500 · Civil RightsJOLT INITIATIVE — $240,000 · Civil RightsACLU Foundation of Texas Inc — $223,000 · Civil RightsTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND — $188,000 · Civil RightsHouston in Action Network — $120,750 · Civil RightsYOUNG INVINCIBLES — $101,000 · Civil RightsJANE'S DUE PROCESS INC — $80,000 · Civil RightsDeceleration — $75,000 · Civil Rights+3 more — $157,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $440,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · AnimalsGULF COAST BIRD OBSERVATORY INC — $160,021 · AnimalsWILDLIFE HABITAT FEDERATION — $150,000 · AnimalsTexas Conservation Alliance — $135,000 · AnimalsCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $135,000 · AnimalsAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC — $125,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF BRAZORIA WILDLIFE REFUGE S — $100,000 · AnimalsHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $77,500 · AnimalsFriends of the ARK Inc — $75,000 · AnimalsWHARTON COUNTY STRAY PET OUTREACH TEAM — $75,000 · AnimalsDefenders of Wildlife — $75,000 · AnimalsHouston Pets Alive — $70,000 · Animals+4 more — $195,000 · AnimalsTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO — $501,000 · EducationTEXAS TRIBUNE INC — $340,000 · EducationCLEAN ENERGY FUND OF TEXAS — $250,000 · EducationTEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $101,875 · EducationSt Edwards University — $55,000 · EducationAchieving Community Task Successfully — $55,000 · EducationSUNNYSIDE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT — $50,000 · EducationSPARK — $381,500 · Recreation & SportsAUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION — $250,000 · Recreation & SportsPease Park Conservancy — $137,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE WOODS PROJECT — $100,160 · Recreation & SportsBarton Springs Conservancy — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsCANDLELIGHT RANCH FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Recreation & Sports
Environment$10,292,925Other$9,064,864Philanthropy$2,658,550Civil Rights$2,190,250Animals$2,012,521Education$1,352,875Recreation & Sports$959,160

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $1,718,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $652,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO — $501,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS — $477,425 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $445,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $440,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAIR ALLIANCE HOUSTON — $430,500 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetBAYOU CITY WATERKEEPER INC — $395,500 over 6y, 22% of budgetSPARK — $381,500 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetTexas Campaign for the Environment Fund — $370,000 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetAvow Foundation for Abortion Access — $353,500 over 4y, 15% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC — $340,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTEXAS LAND TRUST COUNCIL — $335,000 over 5y, 33% of budgetVERDE VALLEY SCHOOL — $325,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $325,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $325,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND INC — $325,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCoastal Prairie Conservancy — $300,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetOUR CHILDREN'S TRUST — $300,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT — $295,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE TEXAS DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION — $290,400 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetGalveston Bay Foundation Inc — $290,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHill Country Alliance — $285,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC — $280,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLONE STAR LEGAL AID — $262,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GREAT SPRINGS PROJECT INC (AUDIT) — $260,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetBAYOU LAND CONSERVANCY — $251,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLEAN ENERGY FUND OF TEXAS — $250,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetFAMILIES IN NATURE — $250,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetAUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetNuclear Information and Resource Service — $250,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetJOLT INITIATIVE — $240,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetTexas Agricultural Land Trust — $235,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLINK HOUSTON — $233,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetThe Houston Audubon Society — $230,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC — $225,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetACLU Foundation of Texas Inc — $223,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetHILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY — $210,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetTHE AFIYA CENTER — $202,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Land Conservancy — $200,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTEXAS HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT ALLIANCE INC — $200,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc — $196,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND — $188,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTEXAS WATER FOUNDATION — $185,000 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetSUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER — $175,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO ↗
  • Who funds PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds AIR ALLIANCE HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds BAYOU CITY WATERKEEPER INC ↗
  • Who funds SPARK ↗
  • Who funds Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund ↗
  • Who funds Avow Foundation for Abortion Access ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS LAND TRUST COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds VERDE VALLEY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Coastal Prairie Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds THE TEXAS DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Galveston Bay Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Hill Country Alliance ↗
  • Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds LONE STAR LEGAL AID ↗
  • Who funds THE GREAT SPRINGS PROJECT INC (AUDIT) ↗
  • Who funds BAYOU LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
  • Who funds CLEAN ENERGY FUND OF TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES IN NATURE ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Nuclear Information and Resource Service ↗
  • Who funds JOLT INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds Texas Agricultural Land Trust ↗
  • Who funds LINK HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds The Houston Audubon Society ↗
  • Who funds THE PEREGRINE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Houston Endowment IncThe Cynthia & George …Shield-Ayres Foundati…Meadows Foundation IncAlice Kleberg Reynold…Windward FundAustin Community Foun…The Powell FoundationThe Brown Foundation …Still Water FoundationUnited States Energy …Environmental Defense…
Houston Endowment IncTX93.5× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Houston Endowment Inc · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · Windward Fund · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Powell Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Still Water Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Western Rivers Conservancy — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
46report 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 323 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home