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· Private foundation
THE VIRGINIA B HIRSH FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$36k
Granted FY2024
12
Grants
4
Communities
$11k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 82% of THE VIRGINIA B HIRSH FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
trailstruckeettcf
2020
covid relief
2021
madison
2022
truckee
2023
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2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 12 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- TTCF$11,000
- BMCHS$6,770
- Tahoe Fund$5,000
- Northernettes$5,000
- Four Lakes Community Collection$2,000
- Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center$2,000
- WORT FM Back Porch Radio Broadcasti$2,000
- PBS Reno$1,200
- Olbrich Botanical Society$763
- Second Harvest Food Bank$500
- Scotty Lapp Foundation$100
- Sierra Senior Services$50
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$224k · 28 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else
28 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
28
30
Total granted
$224k
$39k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+85%
+102%
Still filing today
25%
13%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
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
- TFTahoe Fund6× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +212%
- SMShane McConkey Foundation3× · 2019–2021 · $5k · revenue +174%
- AHAim High2× · 2019–2022 · $2k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- EHEdgewood High Schoolone grant, 2023 · $8k
- TATCU AthleticsFrog Clubone grant, 2023 · $5k
- FSFigure Skating Club of Madisonone grant, 2021 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Sierra Watch
Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.
Environment
2
Wyoming Outdoor Council
The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations
Environment
3
Tahoe Rim Trail Association
To maintain and enhance the tahoe rim trail system, practice and inspire stewardship, and preserve recreational access to the natural beauty of the lake tahoe region.
Recreation & Sports
4
Truckee Trails Foundation Inc
The Truckee Trails Foundation (TTF) is working towards a system of trails and bikeways in and around Truckee, California that will connect people and places, reduce our community's dependence on automobiles, and improve our physical,…
Environment
5
Sierra State Parks Foundation
The Sierra State Parks Foundation provides critically needed financial and professional support to the Lake Tahoe-Donner Sierra State Parks for Education, Restoration, and Cultural and Environmental Preservation in partnership with…
Recreation & Sports
6
Protect Our Winters Action Fund
Works to make action on climate change a top policy priority for the outdoor sports community.
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7
Tall Pines Conservancy
Our mission is to preserve our rural heritage by protecting remaining farmland, water resources, natural areas and open space adjacent to and impacting northwestern waukesha county.
Environment
8
The Sierra Fund
The Sierra Fund mission is to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada. We rely on the principles of science, stewardship, environmental justice, and policy advocacy to promote headwater resiliency for the…
Environment
9
Sierra Avalanche Center
The sierra avalanche center provides avalanche forecasts and education for safe winter backcountry travel in tahoe.
Public Safety & Disaster
10
Tahoe Institute for Natural Science
To advance the natural history, conservation and ecosystem knowledge of the Tahoe region through science, education and outreach.
Environment
11
Friends of Wisconsin State Parks Inc
To preserve, promote, protect, and enhance wisconsin state parks, forests, trails, and recreation areas.
Recreation & Sports
12
Far West Skiing Inc
Far West Skiing promotes participation and enthusiasm in alpine ski racing from entry level to elite level by encouraging and supporting Far West clubs, athletes, coaches and officials to become passionate lifelong skiers.
Recreation & Sports
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Truckee Donner Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Aim High. 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
13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$220,360Environment$35,563Human Services$6,184Philanthropy$4,500Education$1,500Animals$500Youth Development$100
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.
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.
Tahoe Truckee Community FoundationCA15.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation · Barbara L & Richard C · The Corrigan-Walla Foundation · Martis Camp Community Foundation · United Way of Dane County Inc · Tahoe Community Foundation · Madison Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
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 organisation THE VIRGINIA B HIRSH 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Shane McConkey Foundation.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~37 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.7× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 274674949 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Shane McConkey Foundation, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 37 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to The Virginia B Hirsh Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines