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The Baron de Hirsch Fund at a glance

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The Baron de Hirsch Fund

Supports the mission of united jewish appeal-federation of jewish philanthropies of new york, inc., (uja-federation of new york).

$175k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$820kInternational$725kHuman Services$170kArts & Culture$55k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA$65,000
FRIENDS OF ETHIOPIAN JEWS INC$50,000
AFAACCI$35,000
US FRIENDS OF DROR ISRAEL$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FRIENDS OF ETHIOPIAN JEWS INC: $50k → 8%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.
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.
$900k · 6 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -17% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
1

Total granted

$900k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
-17%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’25
InternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $250k · revenue +4%
  • II
    IMPACTISRAEL INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $190k · revenue +60%
  • THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF
    4× · 2021–2025 · $185k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ-SEAL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -17%
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
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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2
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
3
American Friends of Tzir Hemed
Philanthropy
4
Sherit Isroel
—
5
American Friends of Torat Eliyahu
Philanthropy
6
Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International
7
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
8
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
9
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
10
University of Judaism Foundation
—
11
Americans for the Israeli Third Wayinc

to address the deep social, economic, ethical, religious and ideological rifts that exist within Israeli society.

International
12
Dorot Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Us Friends of Dror Israel Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Friends of Maoz-Seal 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

9 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $820,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INCThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $250,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Commi…IMPACTISRAEL INC: $190,000 · InternationalIMPACTISRAEL INCTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF: $185,000 · InternationalTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR …THE GESHER FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · InternationalTHE GESHER FOUNDATION INCAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ-SEAL INC: $25,000 · InternationalFriends of Ethiopian Jews Inc: $170,000 · Human ServicesFriends of…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT HATFUTSOT D/B/A AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANU-MUSEUM: $55,000 · Arts & CultureUS FRIENDS OF DROR ISRAEL INC: $25,000 · Other
Philanthropy$820,000International$700,000Human Services$170,000Arts & Culture$55,000Other$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $820,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC: $190,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF: $185,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetFriends of Ethiopian Jews Inc: $170,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT HATFUTSOT D/B/A AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANU-MUSEUM: $55,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE GESHER FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ-SEAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

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.

Combined Jewish Phila…Jack Chester Foundati…Jewish Communal FundDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jack Chester Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Baron de Hirsch Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Baron de Hirsch Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Baron de Hirsch Fund?

    Find your warmest path to The Baron de Hirsch Fund 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 9 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 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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