· Private foundation
The Charles L and Joan M Hirsch 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LONG ISLAND CARES | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| ACLU | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FED | $10,000 |
| LGBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS | $5,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE ART ASSOC | $5,000 |
| ANTELOPE VALLEY BALLET | $5,000 |
| LEWA WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| COLLEGE BOUND | $5,000 |
| HIAS | $5,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH EL | $5,000 |
| WAY OUT LGBT FDN | $5,000 |
| CONCORD CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LILong Island Cares Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $46k · revenue +141%
- HIHIAS INC7× · 2018–2025 · $41k · revenue +114%
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC6× · 2018–2023 · $31k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- GBGREATER BOSTON PFLAGone grant, 2018 · $6k
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +12%- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +48%
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.
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.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.
Nlgbtq+ bar association's purpose is to promote justice in and through the legal profession for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community (referred to collectively as the community) and its allies, and to provide a means to…
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
Ala is the catalyst for growth by providing: diverse educational experiences, engaged peer communities, strategic solutions, dynamic resources, and trusted networks.
Meeting the professional needs of los angeles lawyers, and improving the administration of justice.
As noted in its articles of incorporation, the mission of the aclu is "to maintain and advance civil liberties, including, without limitation, the freedoms of association, press, religion and speech, and the rights to the franchise, to due…
To promote activities that will enable lgbtq+ and allied attorneys to become more proficient in their profession; to provide education and networking opportunities through conferences and programs for lgbtq+ and ally legal professionals;…
Mission - the aclu of maine works to support bills that advance civil rights and civil liberties and oppose bills that would curtail them. we also provide voter education about how to vote and voting rights at the polls. we do not endorse…
The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…
A Wider Bridge mobilizes the LGBTQ community to fight antisemitism and support Israel and its LGBTQ community.
Preservation of civil liberties through advocacy and lobbying.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 24 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Long Island Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The wayOut LGBTQ Foundation aka wayOUT ↗
- Who funds Cambridge Art Association ↗
- Who funds Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ANTELOPE VALLEY BALLET ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE BOUND INC ↗
- Who funds GLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Charles L and Joan M Hirsch Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charles L and Joan M Hirsch Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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