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Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
68
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$700k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$23MHuman Services$1.8MCommunity Improvement$1.7MEducation$1.0MRecreation & Sports$510kFood & Nutrition$479kEnvironment$464kHealth$293kYouth Development$255kOther$5.4M
02FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $898k
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$82M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MILWAUKEE FILM INC$700,000
MILWAUKEE BALLET$301,667
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATHER$200,000
MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$155,000
FIRST STAGE$155,000
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM$150,000
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM$140,000
TEENS GROW GREENS$133,333
FLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY$110,000
IMAGINE MKE$100,000
WISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC$100,000
NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION$100,000
MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN$92,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE$75,000
COLLEGE POSSIBLE$65,000
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 (FY17–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SHARP LITERACY INC: $35k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $30k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $30k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $30k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $30k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $30k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $30k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $30k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $75k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $50k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $50k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $22k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $15k → 17%Neighborhood House of Milwaukee: $10k → 17%Neighborhood House of Milwaukee: $10k → 17%Neighborhood House of Milwaukee: $10k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $65k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $50k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $50k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $50k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $35k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $30k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $12k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $300k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $150k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $150k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $35k → 17%PUBLIC ALLIES WI: $25k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 17%LA FAMILIA DE ARTE: $15k → 17%LA FAMILIA DE ARTE: $15k → 17%LA FAMILIA DE ARTE: $15k → 17%YWCA OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN: $50k → 17%YWCA OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN: $50k → 17%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.

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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$33M · 88 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

88 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

88
21

Total granted

$33M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+12%

Still filing today

88%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.6M · revenue +5%
  • MA
    MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +34%
  • MILWAUKEE FILM INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • MC
    MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING AR
    one grant, 2019 · $750k
  • CA
    CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE
    one grant, 2018 · $160k
  • FH
    FOREST HOME HISTORIC PRESERVATION A
    one grant, 2018 · $100k

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
Milwaukee Public Theatre Inc

Making the arts accessible to all

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2
Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc

The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…

Arts & Culture
3
Artworks for Milwaukee Inc

ArtWorks mission is preparing youth for tomorrow by providing transferable career skills through arts internships today. More than 1,450 high school students have completed ArtWorks internships since our inception.

Arts & Culture
4
Arts Midwest Incorporated

Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…

Arts & Culture
5
Milwaukee Development Corporation

-instigate, implement, participate in and promote such activities as shall, in the judgment of mdc, tend to support the general community interest in a strong, vital, aesthetically exciting and economically viable greater milwaukee…

Community Improvement
6
South Milwaukee Performing Arts Council

Support the south milwaukee performing arts center and community arts

Arts & Culture
7
Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra Inc

Strengthen communities by providing high-quality and innovative artistic experiences that entertain, inspire, and unite diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
8
Milwaukee Water Commons Inc

Milwaukee water commons is helping catalyze milwaukee as a true model water city-a place where we all have a stake in the health of our waters and all share in their stewardship and benefits. we are advancing our community envisioned water…

Environment
9
Milwaukee Youth Arts Center Inc

To provide the finest collaborative environment for: supporting performing arts training and education for a diverse population of youth; nurturing youth from diverse ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds, instilling life-skills…

Arts & Culture
10
Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.

Education
11
Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee Inc

To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.

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12
Children's Theater of Madison Inc

To spark imagination and build community through the creation and experience of theater.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Stage Milwaukee and the most unlike its peers is Bradley Family Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%8%5–10yr17%15%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr15%23%35–55yr20%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%3%5–10yr17%15%10–20yr18%15%20–35yr15%15%35–55yr20%52%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/96
the rest of the field
12%
710/5,692

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.

04the grantee network

96 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. 96 of the 117 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/96
Grantees still filing
62/96
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC — $4,562,999 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INCMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC — $3,174,213 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INCMILWAUKEE FILM INC — $2,801,500 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE FILM INCMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $2,740,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC — $2,250,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INCFLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC — $1,072,000 · Arts & CultureMARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $975,000 · Arts & Culture+34 more — $5,589,311 · Arts & Culture+34 moreMARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING AR — $750,000 · OtherMARCUS CENTER FOR TH…MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $570,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIB…CITY YEAR INC — $465,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INCMILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC — $442,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE INSTITUTE …DANCEWORKS INC — $335,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION — $315,000 · OtherYMCA OF GREATER MILWAUKEE — $312,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $305,000 · OtherURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC — $298,000 · Other+42 more — $2,614,200 · Other+42 moreUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $810,000 · Human ServicesSILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $292,000 · Human ServicesSHARP LITERACY INC — $245,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC — $242,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN — $100,000 · Human Services+2 more — $70,000 · Human ServicesUWM RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $1,100,000 · Community ImprovementMILWAUKEE DOWNTOWN INC — $200,000 · Community ImprovementNEAR WEST SIDE PARTNERS INC — $150,000 · Community ImprovementMENOMONEE VALLEY PARTNERS INC — $130,000 · Community ImprovementRIVERWORKS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $60,000 · Community Improvement+3 more — $52,500 · Community ImprovementCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $405,000 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $290,000 · EducationPearls for Teen Girls Inc — $125,000 · EducationTHE LITERACY LAB — $90,000 · EducationLA CAUSA INC — $65,000 · Education+3 more — $56,000 · EducationNEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC — $510,000 · Recreation & SportsTEENS GROW GREENS INC — $479,399 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$23,165,023Other$6,406,200Human Services$1,759,000Community Improvement$1,692,500Education$1,031,000Recreation & Sports$510,000Food & Nutrition$479,399

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC — $4,562,999 over 8y, 21% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC — $3,174,213 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE FILM INC — $2,801,500 over 8y, 13% of budgetMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $2,740,000 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC — $2,250,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetUWM RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $1,100,000 over 3y, 45% of budgetFLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC — $1,072,000 over 8y, 9.8% of budgetMARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $975,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $810,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetImagine MKEInc — $745,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC — $647,645 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetFIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE — $615,000 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $570,000 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetNEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC — $510,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTEENS GROW GREENS INC — $479,399 over 7y, 11% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $465,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC — $442,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetARTS AT LARGE INC — $441,666 over 8y, 8.7% of budgetBETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $417,000 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $405,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetDANCEWORKS INC — $335,000 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION — $315,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $305,000 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetSKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE CORP — $300,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC — $298,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetSILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $292,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $290,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC — $260,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetRENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS INC — $245,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetSHARP LITERACY INC — $245,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC — $242,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetARTISTS WORKING IN EDUCATION INC — $225,000 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetWISCONSIN POLICY FORUM INC — $203,200 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetMILWAUKEE DOWNTOWN INC — $200,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetNEXT ACT THEATRE INC — $200,000 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetMILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE LTD — $190,000 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetRADIO MILWAUKEE INC — $190,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $160,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSTORYVILLE CENTER FOR THE SPOKEN WORD INC — $160,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNEAR WEST SIDE PARTNERS INC — $150,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetWOODLAND PATTERN INC — $150,000 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetMENOMONEE VALLEY PARTNERS INC — $130,000 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetPearls for Teen Girls Inc — $125,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetWILD SPACE INC — $103,000 over 8y, 19% of budgetCAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN — $100,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE NEXT DOOR INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEarly Music Now Inc — $90,000 over 4y, 19% 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 MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE FILM INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds UWM RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Imagine MKEInc ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TEENS GROW GREENS INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS AT LARGE INC ↗
  • Who funds BETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds DANCEWORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds SKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE CORP ↗
  • Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds RENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds SHARP LITERACY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTISTS WORKING IN EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN POLICY FORUM INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE DOWNTOWN INC ↗
  • Who funds NEXT ACT THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE LTD ↗
  • Who funds RADIO MILWAUKEE 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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Bert L and Patricia S…United Way of Greater…Green Bay Packers Fou…Youth Foundation IncRalph Evinrude Founda…Joseph and Vera Zilbe…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Northwestern Mutual L…Dorothy Inbusch Found…Gardner Foundation
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI120.5× affinity66 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation Inc · Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation

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 Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc 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 · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 39%
  • The Next Door Inc — 39% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
44report 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 Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Richard and Ethel Herzfeld 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 117 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.

Source object · view filing

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