Wisconsin · Private foundation
Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 68
- Grants FY2024
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $700,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 73
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $82M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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 | 68 | $4.2M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $2.3M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 73 | $4.5M | 29% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $3.3M | 8% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $3.1M | 9% |
| FY2019 | 55 | $4.7M | 5% |
| FY2018 | 62 | $8.5M | 21% |
| FY2017 | 60 | $4.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milwaukee Ballet Company Inc | $4,562,999 | 8 | 21% |
| Milwaukee Art Museum Inc | $3,174,213 | 8 | 7% |
| Milwaukee Film Inc | $2,801,500 | 8 | 13% |
| Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc | $2,740,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc | $2,250,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Uwm Research Foundation Inc | $1,100,000 | 3 | 45% |
| Florentine Opera Company Inc | $1,072,000 | 8 | 10% |
| Marcus Center for the Performing Arts Inc | $975,000 | 5 | 5% |
| United Community Center Inc | $810,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Imagine MKEInc | $745,000 | 6 | 21% |
Show all 96 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 94 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.
Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation Inc · Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation
How this is measured
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About Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc
- How much does Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc give?
- Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc reported 68 grants totaling $4,154,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 73 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (74%), Education (7%), Human Services (5%).
- Who are Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Milwaukee Ballet Company Inc ($4.6M), Milwaukee Art Museum Inc ($3.2M), Milwaukee Film Inc ($2.8M).
- Does Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable.
- Where is Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc based?
- Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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