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The Hersh 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k83 grants · $226k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $310k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION | $275,000 |
| STANFORD HOOVER INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| SKILL UP (ENTANGLED INSTITUTE) | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF WACO | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS | $25,000 |
| GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM MEMORIAL FDTN | $25,000 |
| GREENLIGHT FUND | $25,000 |
| GRACE BRIDGE CELINA (MASTER CARES FOUNDATION) | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| WOODALL ROGERS PARK (KLYDE WARREN PARK) | $15,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS & SCHOLARS | $10,000 |
| FRESH FOUNDATION (NORWOOD FOOD BANK)TELLURIDE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of The Hersh Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
81 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $473k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- GWGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $750k · revenue +30%
- AEAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +57%
- TETHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC3× · 2017–2021 · $180k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- SMSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue +163%
- SGStanford Graduate School of Businessone grant, 2017 · $100k
- NMNEW MEXICO HABITAT CONSERVATION INITIATIVEone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -92% · 41% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
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.
Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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.
As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Natural Gas Partners Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
123 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 123 of the 193 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS THEATER CENTER ↗
- Who funds DALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR URBAN DEBATE LEAGUES ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC ↗
- Who funds ST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Momentous Institute ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds NURU INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO HABITAT CONSERVATION INITIATIVE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Kline Family Foundation · George & Fay Young Foundation Inc · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Hersh Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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