Illinois · Private foundation
Armin and Esther Hirsch Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $822k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 96
- Grants FY2025
- 83
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 81 to 144
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 21
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Armin and Esther Hirsch Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 96 | $822k | 34% |
| FY2024 | 83 | $1.0M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 81 | $642k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 144 | $847k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 106 | $1.0M | 15% |
| FY2020 | 118 | $789k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hht Foundation | $360,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Connections for the Homeless Inc | $280,493 | 6 | 1% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $245,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $180,400 | 6 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $165,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Childrens Oncology Services Inc | $147,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation | $127,500 | 5 | 0% |
| All Stars Project Inc | $120,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Curing Kids Cancer Inc | $116,100 | 4 | 2% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $95,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 120 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 150 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Armin and Esther Hirsch Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 106 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
Compare Armin and Esther Hirsch Foundation with peer funders
About Armin and Esther Hirsch Foundation
- How much does Armin and Esther Hirsch Foundation give?
- Armin and Esther Hirsch Foundation reported 96 grants totaling $822,441 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 81 and 144 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Armin and Esther Hirsch Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (34%), Education (17%), International (8%).
- Who are Armin and Esther Hirsch Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Hht Foundation ($360k), Connections for the Homeless Inc ($280k), The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research ($245k).
- Does Armin and Esther Hirsch Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Armin and Esther Hirsch Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Armin and Esther Hirsch Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, AbbVie Foundation, The Earl and Bettie Fields Automotive Group Foundation Inc.
- Where is Armin and Esther Hirsch Foundation based?
- Armin and Esther Hirsch Foundation is based in IL.
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