Hirsch Family Foundation

The Hirsch Family Foundation (HFF) is a private family foundation based in Dallas Texas.  HFF funds a wide variety of charitable initiatives including scholarships, medical research, the arts, Jewish community interests, and foreign policy research.

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At-A-Glance

Type: Non-profit, 501(c)(3), Private Foundation
Formation:

2004

Location: Dallas, TX View on map
Tax ID: 20-1225862
Most Recent Filing: 2024
Budget (2024): Assets: $53,317,911 Revenue: $5,077,473 Expenses: $8,371,957

Between 2010 and 2017, HFF donated more than $5.2 million to the Center for European Policy Analysis, by far the largest recipient of its donations. 1 Temple Emanu-el in Dallas also received $210,000 to “support reform in the Jewish Community.” 2 The Hirsch Family Foundation also formerly supported the now-defunct conservative National Center for Policy Analysis. 3

The group has provided some support to social liberal organizations, providing $25,000 to National Women’s Law Center in 2015 to “build critical public support for female attorneys”4 and $10,000 to a regional affiliate of Planned Parenthood in 2017. 5

HFF does not accept unsolicited grant requests and maintains no website. Laurence Hirsch, a private equity investor and Republican political donor,6 sits on the foundation board. 7

Board of Directors

Bradford Hirsch

Daria Lee Hirsch

Laurence Hirsch

Margaret Hirsch

Susan Hirsch

Financial Statistics

Total Assets

Total Revenue

Total Expenses

YearTotal AssetsTotal RevenueTotal ExpensesFiling
2024 $53,317,911 $5,077,473 $8,371,957 View
2023 $59,324,534 $1,254,823 $9,033,150 View
2022 $58,700,329 $2,387,204 $6,891,586 View
2021 $63,429,487 $34,969,949 $9,597,551 View
2020 $47,956,293 $1,404,117 $5,270,437 View

Prior year filings: 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011

Expenses Detail

Grant Activity

All-time grants given statistics from Candid dataset:

  • Total Grant Value: $63,780,633
  • Number of Grants: 830
  • Number of Recipients: 238

Selection of highest value grants given from the last seven years:

AmountYearFunderSubject
$2,500,0002021 Georgia O'keeffe Museum2021 CONTRIBUTION
$1,200,0002023 Trinity Park Conservancy2023 CONTRIBUTION
$1,000,0002023 The Commit PartnershipCONTRIBUTION TO OPPORTUNITY 2040
$646,0002023 Parkland Foundation3RD INSTALLMENT OF 5-YEAR PLEDGE (PCHICOS)
$646,0002022 Parkland Foundation3RD INSTALLMENT OF 5-YEAR PLEDGE (PCHICOS)
$646,0002021 Parkland Health Foundation3RD INSTALLMENT OF 5-YEAR PLEDGE (PCHICOS)
$575,0002022 Center for European Policy Analysis2ND SEMI ANNUAL PAYMENT 2022
$500,0002024 St Mark's School of Texas2024 CONTRIBUTION
$446,0002024 Parkland Foundation3RD INSTALLMENT OF 5-YEAR PLEDGE (PCHICOS)
$445,0002024 Center for European Policy Analysis2ND SEMI ANNUAL PAYMENT OF 2023
$400,0002024 United to Learn2024 CONTRIBUTION
$325,0002024 Center for European Policy Analysis1ST SEMI ANNUAL PAYMENT OF 2023
$325,0002023 Center for European Policy Analysis1ST SEMI ANNUAL PAYMENT OF 2023
$325,0002023 Center for European Policy Analysis2ND SEMI ANNUAL PAYMENT OF 2023
$325,0002022 Center for European Policy Analysis1ST SEMI ANNUAL PAYMENT 2022
$325,0002021 Center for European Policy Analysis1ST SEMI ANNUAL PAYMENT 2021
$325,0002021 Center for European Policy Analysis2ND SEMI ANNUAL PAYMENT 2021
$325,0002020 Center for European Policy Analysis2ND SEMI ANNUAL PAYMENT 2020
$325,0002020 Center for European Policy Analysis1ST SEMI ANNUAL PAYMENT 2020
$300,0002021 Lift2021 DONATION
$250,0002024 The Hockaday School2024 CONTRIBUTION
$230,0002024 Temple Emanu-El2024 CONTRIBUTION
$225,0002024 Summer Search2024 CONTRIBUTION
$225,0002023 Summer Search5TH INSTALLMENT OF 5-YEAR PLEDGE
$225,0002023 VogelARTS PERFORMANCE EVENT

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References

1. BIG Online. “Hirsch Family Foundation.” Undated Accessed September 10, 2019 http://www.bigdatabase.com/Big-DB/USFoundation-profiles/HIRSCH%20FAMILY%20FOUNDATION-201225862.HTML
2. Form 990. 2015. Accessed September 10, 2019
3. Data compiled by FoundationSearch.com subscription service, a project of Metasoft Systems, Inc., from forms filed with the IRS. Queries conducted September 30, 2019.
4. Hirsch Family Foundation, Return of a Private Foundation (Form 990-PF), 2015, Part XV Line 3
5. Hirsch Family Foundation, Return of a Private Foundation (Form 990-PF), 2017, Part XV Line 3
6. Garrett, Robert T. “Who Are Marco Rubio’s Top Five Texas Donors?” Dallas News. Dallas News, January 26, 2016. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2016/01/26/who-are-marco-rubio-s-top-five-texas-donors/.
7. Hirsch Family Foundation, Return of a Private Foundation (Form 990-PF), 2017, Part VIII Line 1