How much does The Arthur and Janet Hershaft Foundation give?

The Arthur and Janet Hershaft Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $472,388 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 41 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does The Arthur and Janet Hershaft Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (25%), Philanthropy (23%), Arts & Culture (15%).

Who are The Arthur and Janet Hershaft Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($378k), Morselife Foundation Inc ($198k), Park Avenue Synagogue Inc ($102k).

Does The Arthur and Janet Hershaft Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Arthur and Janet Hershaft Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Arthur and Janet Hershaft Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.

Where is The Arthur and Janet Hershaft Foundation based?

The Arthur and Janet Hershaft Foundation is based in FL.

The Arthur and Janet Hershaft Foundation

The Arthur and Janet Hershaft Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Arthur and Janet Hershaft 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.

$472k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$77k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$615kPhilanthropy$579kArts & Culture$379kReligion$248kHuman Services$230kEducation$181kInternational$153kCivil Rights$50kOther$0

02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k14 grants · $50k
$10k–50k7 grants · $174k
$50k–250k4 grants · $248k

$6,565

Median grant

States reached

$1.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCE	$77,000
MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION	$60,000
ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE	$56,500
PALM BEACH SYNAGOGUE	$54,600
NORTON MUSEUM OF ARTS	$45,000
WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE	$30,000
THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS	$25,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY	$20,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH	$19,800
PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE	$19,538
UNITED WAY OF PALM BEACH	$15,000
KRAVIS CENTER	$9,850
TEMPLE SHOLOM	$6,565
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIV	$5,000
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES ALUMNI	$5,000

02The need

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 (FY19–25, $215k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.0M · 33 repeat orgs$186k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.0M

$170k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%

+1%

Still filing today

61%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureInternationalHealthEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

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

UJ
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
4× · 2019–2022 · $378k · revenue +27%
MF
MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC
6× · 2019–2025 · $198k · revenue +19%
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC
6× · 2019–2025 · $100k · revenue +116%

Funded once

NL
NYU LANGONE HEALTH
one grant, 2024 · $50k
BB
BRIDGES BTC FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -83%
NY
NEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue -5%

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.

Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

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

The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education

Berggruen Institute

Education

Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health

American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Our New Way Garden Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 79 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

45/47

Grantees still filing

33/47

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,036,659Philanthropy$520,800Arts & Culture$377,906Human Services$215,245Education$177,300International$151,200Crime & Legal$14,500

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

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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY15.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

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

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Arthur and Janet Hershaft Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Arthur and Janet Hershaft Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

7report 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home