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The Alan J Hirschfield Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$450k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$128k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Philanthropy$761kEducation$451kHealth$222kFood & Nutrition$155kAnimals$148kArts & Culture$136kEnvironment$99kYouth Development$91kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $193k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $178k
$8,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JH$127,850
HOLE FOOD RESCUE$50,000
TETON RAPTOR CENTER$30,000
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MONTEREY$30,000
INVISIBLE INSTITUTE$15,000
TREEHOUSE FOR KIDS$15,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF MICHIGAN$15,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$15,000
RAINIER SCHOLARS$12,500
HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST$10,000
BOSTON MARATHON JIMMY FUND WALK$10,000
WILDCOAST$10,000
FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY$10,000
JACKSON HOLE COMMUNITY SCHOOL$10,000
SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP$10,000
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 (FY18–23, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAMP KESEM: $5k → 14%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $8k → 21%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $5k → 21%HARMONY AT HOME: $5k → 12%CLIMB WYOMING: $5k → 5%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

VT
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
SD
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 41 repeat orgs$167k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

41 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
21

Total granted

$2.1M
$157k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+1%

Still filing today

83%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesYouth 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

  • TR
    TETON RAPTOR CENTER
    5× · 2018–2024 · $148k · revenue +62%
  • JH
    Jackson Hole Community School
    6× · 2018–2024 · $145k · revenue +98%
  • HF
    Hole Food Rescue
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • BC
    BRAIN CHEMISTRY LABS
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • IP
    INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -38%
  • TC
    TETON COUNTY SEARCH & RESCURE FOUND
    one grant, 2022 · $15k

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
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

2
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

4
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
5
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
8
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

9
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
10
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
11
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
12
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 backsteadyFood Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersCancer Support ServicesElementary Literacy TutoringPregnancy Support ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Youth Sports ProgramsSchool District FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Independent K-12 Schools
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 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr13%56%20–35yr15%17%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr13%57%20–35yr15%17%35–55yr16%11%55yr+

The field is 25% 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 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/54
the rest of the field
10%
543/5,263

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

51 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 68 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
35/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JH — $665,950 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JHTETON RAPTOR CENTER — $148,150 · OtherTETON RAPTOR CENTERTREEHOUSE FOR KIDS — $82,500 · OtherTREEHOUSE FOR KIDSBOSTON MARATHON JIMMY FUND WALK — $65,000 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY — $55,000 · OtherBRAIN CHEMISTRY LABS — $50,000 · Other+28 more — $314,501 · Other+28 moreJackson Hole Community School — $145,000 · EducationJackson Hole Commu…RAINIER SCHOLARS — $60,000 · EducationRAINIER SCHOLARSINTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MONTEREY — $49,500 · EducationINTERNATIONAL SCHO…TETON LITERACY CENTER — $30,000 · EducationTETON LITERACY CEN…BARBERSHOP BOOKS INC — $27,500 · EducationBARBERSHOP BOOKS I…BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION — $25,000 · EducationBENNINGTON COLLEGE…UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $23,000 · EducationUC SANTA BARBARA F…+3 more — $22,500 · Education+3 morePARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $75,000 · HealthPARTNERS I…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $25,000 · HealthPLANNED PA…ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $25,000 · HealthROCKY MOUN…American Diabetes Association — $25,000 · HealthAmerican D…TETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES — $20,000 · HealthTETON YOUT…CUREBOUND — $17,000 · HealthCUREBOUNDSt John's Health Foundation — $15,000 · HealthSt John's …NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $13,000 · HealthNATIONAL J…+1 more — $2,000 · HealthRICHARD HUGO HOUSE — $54,167 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE THEATRE GROUP — $22,500 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST FILM FORUM — $10,000 · Arts & CultureArts Corps — $8,000 · Arts & CultureYOUTH ARTS COLLECTIVE INC — $3,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $2,500 · Arts & CultureHole Food Rescue — $100,000 · Food & NutritionTIDES FOUNDATION — $58,000 · PhilanthropySEATTLE FOUNDATION — $22,500 · PhilanthropyGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $15,000 · PhilanthropyWILDCOAST — $25,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $23,000 · EnvironmentSightline Institute — $15,000 · EnvironmentNATUREBRIDGE — $13,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC — $5,000 · Environment
Other$1,381,101Education$382,500Health$217,000Arts & Culture$100,667Food & Nutrition$100,000Philanthropy$95,500Environment$81,000

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 budgetTETON RAPTOR CENTER — $148,150 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetJackson Hole Community School — $145,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetHole Food Rescue — $100,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $75,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS — $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $58,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY — $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRICHARD HUGO HOUSE — $54,167 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MONTEREY — $49,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST — $45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTETON LITERACY CENTER — $30,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetInvisible Institute — $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBARBERSHOP BOOKS INC — $27,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetWILDCOAST — $25,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $25,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association — $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE THEATRE GROUP — $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES — $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJACKSON HOLE COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINDEPENDENT PRODUCTION FUND INC — $20,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCUREBOUND — $17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSightline Institute — $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSt John's Health Foundation — $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE — $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEDAL THE CAUSE — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST FILM FORUM — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetArts Corps — $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFoundation of La Jolla High School Inc — $7,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMARY'S PLACE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCamp Kesem National — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCarmel Little League DBA Carmel Unified Youth Baseball — $5,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetHARMONY AT HOME — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH ARTS COLLECTIVE INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRANCHO CIELO INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJackson Hole Public Art — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% 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 TETON RAPTOR CENTER
  • Who funds Jackson Hole Community School
  • Who funds Hole Food Rescue
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
  • Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY
  • Who funds RICHARD HUGO HOUSE
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MONTEREY
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST
  • Who funds TETON LITERACY CENTER
  • Who funds Invisible Institute
  • Who funds BARBERSHOP BOOKS INC
  • Who funds WILDCOAST
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association
  • Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
  • Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP
  • Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds TETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES
  • Who funds JACKSON HOLE COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST
  • Who funds INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION FUND INC
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds CUREBOUND
  • Who funds Sightline Institute
  • Who funds St John's Health Foundation
  • Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH

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.

The Brooks FoundationWY17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Brooks Foundation · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Perkins Charitable Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Free Lunch Foundation · Karl M Johnson Foundation · William E Weiss Foundation Inc · Alumbra Innovations Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · The Miami Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc

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 The Alan J Hirschfield Family 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
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation0% of income from government
  • Bennington College Corporation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
15report 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, FY2025

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.

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How do I get to The Alan J Hirschfield Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Alan J Hirschfield Family 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 68 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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