Arizona · Private foundation
The Herberger Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $210,161
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 28
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations The Herberger Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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 | 9 | $1.0M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $761k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $1.2M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $1.1M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $1.3M | 19% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Phoenix Theatre Company and Subsidiary | $985,161 | 6 | 3% |
| Scottsdale Arts | $960,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Arizona Opera Company | $810,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Valley Youth Theatre | $475,000 | 4 | 11% |
| Ballet Arizona | $375,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Childsplay Inc | $350,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Itheatre Collaborative | $160,000 | 4 | 77% |
| Arizona Theatre Company | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Phoenix Symphony Association | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Herberger Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Arizona Community Foundation · Margaret T Morris Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · Thunderbirds Charities · Scottsdale League for the Arts · Scottsdale Arts · Moreno Family Foundation · Flinn Foundation · Sherman and Linda Saperstein Charitable Trust · L Roy Papp Charitable Trust · Charles and Laura Goldstein Philanthropic Foundation
How this is measured
About The Herberger Foundation
- How much does The Herberger Foundation give?
- The Herberger Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $1,017,222 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 28 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Herberger Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (90%), Health (3%), Education (1%).
- Who are The Herberger Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Phoenix Theatre Company and Subsidiary ($985k), Scottsdale Arts ($960k), Arizona Opera Company ($810k).
- Does The Herberger Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Herberger 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 The Herberger Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust, Arizona Community Foundation, Margaret T Morris Foundation.
- Where is The Herberger Foundation based?
- The Herberger Foundation is based in AZ.
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