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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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $70,500 |
| GILDER LEHRMAN INST OF AMER HIST | $15,000 |
| U OF A FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ARIZONA THEATRE COMPANY | $5,000 |
| LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $4,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $1,000 |
| ARIZONA PUBLIC MEDIA | $1,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN | $850 |
| Individual grant recipient | $700 |
| COMPASSION AND CHOICES | $500 |
| OBAMA FOUNDATION | $500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA MUSEUM OF ART | $500 |
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 (FY22–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +37% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 12 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
University of Chicago7× · 2017–2024 · $111k · revenue +56%- TSTucson Symphony Society7× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +44%
- CSChicago Symphony Orchestra8× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- TBThe Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute Incone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -51%
- B2BIOSPHERE 2one grant, 2021 · $10k
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -33%
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Education and Research
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
How this is measured
43 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. 43 of the 81 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 President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
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- Who funds THE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Tucson Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Arizona Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEEONE ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds AKASHINGA INC ↗
- Who funds INVISIBLE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds SHADY HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
- Who funds HARVARD VARSITY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds The Fishing School 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Herbst Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herbst Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Buckingham Browne & Nichols School: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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