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The Herschmann Family Foundation at a glance

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The Herschmann 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.

$30k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$172kReligion$167kEducation$95kArts & Culture$57kHealth$10kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$155k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$25,000
CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ISRAEL AMERICA COALITION: $5k → 14%CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL: $5k → 6%JAMES T GOOD RICH FUND INC: $5k → 9%UNITED HATZALAH: $18k → 17%OTHER MISC CONTRIBUTIONS: $11k → 20%UT CHABAD HOUSE: $20k → 10%DOWNTOWN JEWISH CHABAD CENTER: $18k → 13%KRISTI HOUSE: $10k → 15%MORIAH: $27k → 7%AMERICA-ISRAEL FRIENDSHIP LEAGUE: $10k → 17%UT CHABAD: $15k → 10%EAST HILL SYNAGOGUE: $16k → 7%CHAI LIFELINE: $5k → 17%UT CHABAD: $10k → 10%MORIAH: $10k → 7%RAMAZ: $10k → 17%UT CHABAD HOUSE: $4k → 10%MORIAH: $10k → 7%FRIENDS OF ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE: $20k → 17%UNIVERSUTY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $25k → 10%JEWISH VALUES NETWORK: $10k → 7%FRIENDS OF ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE: $18k → 17%BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 10%EAST HILL SYNAGOGUE: $6k → 7%FRIENDS OF ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE: $10k → 17%THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN: $10k → 10%CONG AHAVATH TORAH: $6k → 7%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS: $50k → 17%AUSTIN JEWISH ACADEMY: $10k → 10%MORIAH: $5k → 7%FRIENDS OF ISRAEL STORY: $4k → 17%SHALOM AUSTIN: $4k → 10%MORIAH: $5k → 7%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $20k → 17%SHALOM AUSTIN: $4k → 10%EAST HILL SYNAGOGUE: $3k → 7%SHALOM AUSTIN: $4k → 10%EAST HILL SYNAGOGUE: $3k → 7%ENGLEWOOD HOSPTAL MEDICAL: $3k → 7%EAST HILL SYNAGOGUE: $2k → 7%CONG AHAVATH TORAH: $2k → 7%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SANHEDRIA JERUS: $4k → 7%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SANHEDRIA JERUS: $4k → 7%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SANHEDRIA JERUS: $4k → 7%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SANHEDRIA JERUS: $4k → 7%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SANHEDRIA JERUS: $2k → 7%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of The Herschmann Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Herschmann Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$251k · 9 repeat orgs$211k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +134% since the first grant, against +61% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
18

Total granted

$251k
$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+134%
+61%

Still filing today

22%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalArts & CultureReligionPhilanthropyCrime & LegalHealthOther
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

  • M
    MORIAH
    5× · 2018–2023 · $57k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $48k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2024 · $34k

Funded once

  • BM
    BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • UO
    UNIVERSUTY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • DJ
    DOWNTOWN JEWISH CHABAD CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $18k
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
Sherit Isroel
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2
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
3
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

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

Religion
4
American Friends of Torat Eliyahu
Philanthropy
5
American Friends of Israel Emergency Aid Fund

To provide funding for medical and humanitarian projects throughout israel. the organization might make grants to other organizations providing such services, including, but not limited to, evp israel and israel emergency aid fund, israeli…

Public Safety & Disaster
6
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
7
University of Judaism Foundation
—
8
American Friends of Israel Organizations Inc

Funding of organizations qualified under section 501(c) or equivalent as operating for charitable, religious, or educational purposes, or that would so qualify based on the nature of such organization's operations

International
9
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Friends of Jerusalem

Friends of Jerusalem's mission is to provide assistance to the needs and indigent living in Jerusalem and all of Israel.

Human Services
11
Us Israel Education Fund Inc
—
12
American Friends of Tzir Hemed
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is America-Israel Friendship League Inc; the most unlike its peers is Austin Jewish Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 29 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MORIAH: $57,000 · OtherMORIAHFRIENDS OF ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE: $48,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCEIndividual grant recipient: $33,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEAST HILL SYNAGOGUE: $29,309 · OtherEAST HILL SYNAGOGUEBLANTON MUSEUM OF ART: $25,000 · OtherBLANTON MUSEUM OF ARTIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSUTY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSUTY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINUT CHABAD HOUSE: $23,600 · OtherUT CHABAD HOUSEDOWNTOWN JEWISH CHABAD CENTER: $18,000 · Other+9 more: $70,675 · Other+9 morePEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $70,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWM…SHALOM AUSTIN: $10,800 · PhilanthropySHALOM AUSTINFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $18,000 · InternationalAMERICA-ISRAEL FRIENDSHIP LEAGUE INC: $10,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel: $5,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $18,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF ISRAEL STORY: $3,600 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SANHEDRIA JERUSALEM INC: $16,200 · ReligionKRISTI HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalCHAI LIFELINE INC: $5,000 · Health
Other$355,184Philanthropy$80,800International$33,000Arts & Culture$31,600Religion$16,200Crime & Legal$10,000Health$5,000

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 budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SANHEDRIA JERUSALEM INC: $16,200 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSHALOM AUSTIN: $10,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKRISTI HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICA-ISRAEL FRIENDSHIP LEAGUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAUSTIN JEWISH ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL STORY: $3,600 over 1y, 1.8% 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 PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SANHEDRIA JERUSALEM INC ↗
  • Who funds SHALOM AUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds KRISTI HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA-ISRAEL FRIENDSHIP LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN JEWISH ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ISRAEL STORY ↗

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 FundMorgan Stanley Global…Austin Community Foun…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY13.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Austin Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Herschmann Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Herschmann Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • Kristi House Inc: 49% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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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How do I get to The Herschmann Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Herschmann 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 29 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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