· Private foundation
The Myna & Uri Herscher 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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $166k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IKAR | $25,800 |
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS | $20,000 |
| MOMENT MAGAZINE | $15,000 |
| MAMAN INC | $10,000 |
| UCLA DEPT OF HEAD & NECK SUR | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| SHALOM HARTMAN INST OF NA | $10,000 |
| SUPERHUMANS UKRAINE INC | $10,000 |
| SKIRBALL CULTURAL CTR | $10,000 |
| HEBREW UNION COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| NETWORK OF JEWISH HUMAN SERVICE AGENCIES | $10,000 |
| UC REGENTS | $8,700 |
| LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION | $7,000 |
| PHASE ONE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 8 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- SCSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +26%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC7× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +40%
- HPHarmony Project6× · 2018–2023 · $51k · revenue +25%
Funded once
CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +95%- PFPAWS FUR HOPEone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0% · 31% of their budget
- PFPAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +178%
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.
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
One for israel's purposes are to unite u.s. and international churches, ministries and individuals for the proclamation of the gospel in israel, to raise funds for evangelism and gospel proclamation, to provide tangible relief for israel's…
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies Inc and the most unlike its peers is Paws Fur Hope. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 130 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 SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Harmony Project ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EPACENTER ↗
- Who funds FULFILLMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds DE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds PAWS FUR HOPE ↗
- Who funds TRIBE MEDIA CORP ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE CHANGE ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH WORLD WATCH ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds The Animal Protectorates ↗
- Who funds JQ INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
- Who funds PHASE ONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
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: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Group · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Richard and Ellen Sandler Family Foundation · The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation · The Karsh Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Liberty Hill Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Myna & Uri Herscher Family 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.
- Empower Her Network Inc Dba Empowered Network — 47% of income from government
- Cast Inc — 15% 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.