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The Alan J Hirschfield Family Foundation at a glance

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The Alan J Hirschfield Family Foundation

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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$761kEducation$451kHealth$222kFood & Nutrition$155kAnimals$148kArts & Culture$136kEnvironment$99kYouth Development$91kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JH$1,106,500
HOLE FOOD RESCUE$50,000
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MONTEREY$20,000
TREEHOUSE FOR KIDS$15,000
CUREBOUND$15,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$15,000
RAINIER SCHOLARS$12,500
SEATTLE PLAYGARDEN$10,000
FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY$10,000
RICHARD HUGO HOUSE$5,000
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$5,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$5,000
JACKSON HOLE COMMUNITY SCHOOL$5,000
NATUREBRIDGE$5,000
CLIMB WYOMING$5,000
02The need
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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 (FY18–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%CLIMB WYOMING: $5k → 5%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

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 42 repeat orgs$174k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
22

Total granted

$3.4M
$162k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+22%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • HF
    Hole Food Rescue
    3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +2%
  • JH
    Jackson Hole Community School
    7× · 2018–2025 · $150k · revenue +98%
  • TR
    TETON RAPTOR CENTER
    5× · 2018–2024 · $148k · revenue +108%

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
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
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
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
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
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
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.

—
6
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.

—
7
Pomona College

Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…

Education
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.

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9
Public Health Institute

Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.

Health
10
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
11
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
12
Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources

The organization pursues higher standards of news coverage of natural resources and the environment -- standards of accuracy, fairness, balance, depth and context.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teton Youth and Family Services; 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.
04the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 70 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
35/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JH: $1,772,450 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JHTETON RAPTOR CENTER: $148,150 · OtherTETON RAPTOR CENTERTREEHOUSE FOR KIDS: $97,500 · Other+33 more: $517,001 · Other+33 moreJackson Hole Community School: $150,000 · EducationJackson Hole …RAINIER SCHOLARS: $72,500 · EducationRAINIER SCHOL…INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MONTEREY: $69,500 · EducationINTERNATIONAL…TETON LITERACY CENTER: $30,000 · EducationTETON LITERAC…BARBERSHOP BOOKS INC: $27,500 · EducationBARBERSHOP BO…BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $25,000 · EducationBENNINGTON CO…UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $23,000 · EducationUC SANTA BARB…+3 more: $22,500 · Education+3 morePARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $90,000 · HealthCUREBOUND: $32,000 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $25,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $25,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $25,000 · HealthTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $20,000 · HealthSt John's Health Foundation: $15,000 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $13,000 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · HealthHole Food Rescue: $150,000 · Food & NutritionRICHARD HUGO HOUSE: $59,167 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE THEATRE GROUP: $22,500 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST FILM FORUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureArts Corps: $8,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $6,000 · Arts & CultureTIDES FOUNDATION: $58,000 · PhilanthropySEATTLE FOUNDATION: $22,500 · PhilanthropyGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropySIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $28,000 · EnvironmentWILDCOAST: $25,000 · EnvironmentNATUREBRIDGE: $18,000 · EnvironmentSightline Institute: $15,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $5,000 · Environment
Other$2,535,101Education$420,000Health$247,000Food & Nutrition$150,000Arts & Culture$105,667Philanthropy$95,500Environment$91,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHole Food Rescue: $150,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetJackson Hole Community School: $150,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetTETON RAPTOR CENTER: $148,150 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $90,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS: $72,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MONTEREY: $69,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRICHARD HUGO HOUSE: $59,167 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $58,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCUREBOUND: $32,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetInvisible Institute: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTETON LITERACY CENTER: $30,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $28,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBARBERSHOP BOOKS INC: $27,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWILDCOAST: $25,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $25,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUC SANTA BARBARA 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 budgetNATUREBRIDGE: $18,000 over 3y, 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 budgetSightline Institute: $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetArts Corps: $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFoundation of La Jolla High School Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCarmel Little League DBA Carmel Unified Youth Baseball: $5,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetMARY'S PLACE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCamp Kesem National: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARMONY AT HOME: $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 budgetRANCHO CIELO INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH ARTS COLLECTIVE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJackson Hole Public Art: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% 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 Hole Food Rescue ↗
  • Who funds Jackson Hole Community School ↗
  • Who funds TETON RAPTOR CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MONTEREY ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds RICHARD HUGO HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST ↗
  • Who funds CUREBOUND ↗
  • Who funds Invisible Institute ↗
  • Who funds TETON LITERACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BARBERSHOP BOOKS INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds WILDCOAST ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA 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 NATUREBRIDGE ↗
  • Who funds St John's Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Sightline Institute ↗

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.

The Brooks FoundationCommunity Foundation …Perkins Charitable Fo…Seattle FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…The Free Lunch Founda…Karl M Johnson Founda…William E Weiss Found…Alumbra Innovations F…The McKnight Foundati…The Miami Foundation …First Interstate Banc…
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

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 The Alan J Hirschfield Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alan J Hirschfield Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Bennington College Corporation: 0% 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, 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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 70 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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