· Private foundation
The Virginia B Hirsh 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TTCF | $11,000 |
| BMCHS | $6,770 |
| Northernettes | $5,000 |
| Tahoe Fund | $5,000 |
| WORT FM Back Porch Radio Broadcasti | $2,000 |
| Four Lakes Community Collection | $2,000 |
| Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center | $2,000 |
| PBS Reno | $1,200 |
| Olbrich Botanical Society | $763 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank | $500 |
| Scotty Lapp Foundation | $100 |
| Sierra Senior Services | $50 |
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 (FY19–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TFTAHOE FUND6× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +336%
- FOFSC OF MADISON INC3× · 2019–2022 · $9k · revenue +43%
- SMSHANE MCCONKEY FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $5k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- EHEDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $8k
- TATCU AthleticsFrog Clubone grant, 2023 · $5k
- FSFigure Skating Club of Madisonone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.
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,…
The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
Works to make action on climate change a top policy priority for the outdoor sports community.
To advance the natural history, conservation and ecosystem knowledge of the Tahoe region through science, education and outreach.
To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.
The sierra avalanche center provides avalanche forecasts and education for safe winter backcountry travel in tahoe.
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.
The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.
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…
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 61 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 TAHOE FUND ↗
- Who funds FSC OF MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds SHANE MCCONKEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONE MILLION AOK ↗
- Who funds WIL-MAR NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain Area Preservation Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH ↗
- Who funds WINGRA SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds TRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds OLBRICH BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
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: Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · Barbara L & Richard C Barrett Foundation · United Way of Dane County Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Park L Loughlin Charitable Foundation · The Corrigan-Walla Foundation · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Virginia B Hirsh Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Virginia B Hirsh Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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