Illinois · Private foundation
Herbst Family 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.
- $126k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2024
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $70,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 27
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Herbst Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 30 | $126k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $112k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $138k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $142k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $59k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $94k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $48k | 38% |
| FY2017 | 21 | $34k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Chicago | $110,500 | 7 | 0% |
| The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History | $67,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Tucson Symphony Society | $45,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $37,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Buckingham Browne & Nichols School | $31,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Lyric Opera of Chicago | $29,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Arizona Theatre Company | $20,500 | 7 | 0% |
| The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Chapin School Ltd | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| National Academy of Sciences | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($331k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Herbst Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Donald Pitt Family Foundation · Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · The Stocker Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · John and Helen Murphey Foundation Inc · The Gordon Foundation
How this is measured
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About Herbst Family Foundation
- How much does Herbst Family Foundation give?
- Herbst Family Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $126,310 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Herbst Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (45%), Arts & Culture (30%), Science & Tech (16%).
- Who are Herbst Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Chicago ($111k), The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History ($67k), Tucson Symphony Society ($45k).
- Does Herbst Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Herbst Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Herbst Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, Donald Pitt Family Foundation, Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona.
- Where is Herbst Family Foundation based?
- Herbst Family Foundation is based in IL.
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