· Private foundation
The Lewis Hertz Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $6,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| LEND A HAND SENIOR ASSISTANCE INC | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY HOME REPAIR PROJECTS | $3,000 |
| CASA ESPERANZA PARA NINOS | $1,000 |
| ST LUKE'S HOME | $1,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CLINICS FOR REHAB SVCS | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +39%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +145%- SLSt Lukes in the Desert Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- ACAngel Charity for Children Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +56%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF SO AZone grant, 2022 · $2k
- CHCommunity Home Repair Projects of Arizonaone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
To advance hope, healing and the best healthcare for children and their families.
East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
TCC Family Health mission is to provide innovative, integrated, quality health care that will contribute to a healthy community, focusing on those in need and working with patients and the community as partners in their overall well-being.
Ann & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago is dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Orlando health is a trusted leader inspiring hope through the advancement of health. our mission as a community-owned organization is to improve the health and quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve.
To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.
Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)
Banner health's nonprofit mission is "making health care easier, so life can be better".
How this is measured
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. 9 of the 16 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 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds St Lukes in the Desert Inc ↗
- Who funds Casa Esperanza Para Ninos ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services ↗
- Who funds Integrative Touch ↗
- Who funds Angel Charity for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds TOP DOG INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CLINICS FOR REHABILITATIVE SERVICES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Carl & Mabel Shurtz Foundation · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lewis Hertz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lewis Hertz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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