Maryland · Private foundation
Zell and Myrna Hurwitz Foundation Inc
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.
- $298k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,800
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $96,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 51
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Zell and Myrna Hurwitz Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 31 | $202k | 48% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $137k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $461k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $498k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $799k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $414k | 66% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $135k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algemeiner Inc | $84,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Imadi Inc | $55,800 | 3 | 2% |
| Lehrman Community Day School Inc | $39,719 | 3 | 0% |
| Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc | $27,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Temple Menorah | $17,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $16,300 | 5 | 0% |
| Chai Lifeline Inc | $13,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Momentum Unlimited Inc | $12,800 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $12,525 | 6 | 0% |
| Temple Emanu-El of Greater Miami Inc | $11,179 | 4 | n/a |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 74 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Zell and Myrna Hurwitz Foundation Inc 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: Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Jewish Communal Fund · Center for Jewish Education Inc · Crane Family Foundation Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc · Herbert Bearman Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Kathy L Shapiro Foundation Inc Inc
How this is measured
Compare Zell and Myrna Hurwitz Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Zell and Myrna Hurwitz Foundation Inc
- How much does Zell and Myrna Hurwitz Foundation Inc give?
- Zell and Myrna Hurwitz Foundation Inc reported 32 grants totaling $298,198 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 51 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Zell and Myrna Hurwitz Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (48%), Religion (6%), Arts & Culture (3%).
- Who are Zell and Myrna Hurwitz Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Algemeiner Inc ($85k), Imadi Inc ($56k), Lehrman Community Day School Inc ($40k).
- Does Zell and Myrna Hurwitz Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Zell and Myrna Hurwitz Foundation Inc 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 Zell and Myrna Hurwitz Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore, Jewish Communal Fund, Center for Jewish Education Inc.
- Where is Zell and Myrna Hurwitz Foundation Inc based?
- Zell and Myrna Hurwitz Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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