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Herbst Family Foundation

Name: Herbst Family Foundation grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

85
grants reported: $376,635
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $1,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

school athletics board booth business department dept math

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

U of a Foundation7 grants · $128,000
University of Chicago3 grants · $72,500
Gilder Lehrman Inst of Amer Hist3 grants · $35,000
Buckingham Browne Nichols Fund2 grants · $25,250
Tucson Symphony Orchestra2 grants · $20,000
Chicago Symphony Orchestra3 grants · $18,000
Lyric Opera of Chicago3 grants · $13,500
Arizona Theatre Company3 grants · $12,000
Arizona Public Media3 grants · $10,500
Friends of Idf1 grant · $5,000

Giving over time

$138,450

2022

$111,875

2023

$126,310

2024

Grant history

All 85 reported grants, largest first.

$70,500
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Program support
$52,000
U of a Foundation · Tucson, AZ · 2023
School of art
$25,000
Buckingham Browne Nichols Fund · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Program support
$25,000
U of a Foundation · Tucson, AZ · 2022
Department of math
$25,000
U of a Foundation · Tucson, AZ · 2022
School of art
$15,000
Gilder Lehrman Inst of Amer Hist · New York, NY · 2024
Program support
$15,000
Tucson Symphony Orchestra · Tucson, AZ · 2022
Program support
$10,000
U of a Foundation · Tucson, AZ · 2024
School of art
$10,000
Gilder Lehrman Inst of Amer Hist · New York, NY · 2023
Program support
$10,000
U of a Foundation · Tucson, AZ · 2023
Program support
$10,000
Gilder Lehrman Inst of Amer Hist · New York, NY · 2022
Program support
$9,000
Chicago Symphony Orchestra · Chicago, IL · 2023
Program support
$6,000
Arizona Public Media · Tucson, AZ · 2023
Program support
$5,000
Arizona Theatre Company · Tucson, AZ · 2024
Program support
$5,000
Lyric Opera of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Program support
$5,000
Tucson Symphony Orchestra · Tucson, AZ · 2024
Program support
$5,000
Friends of Idf · New York, NY · 2023
Program support
$5,000
Lyric Opera of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
Program support
$5,000
Radcliffe Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Program support
$5,000
U of a Foundation · Tucson, AZ · 2022
Dept athletics
$4,500
Chicago Symphony Orchestra · Chicago, IL · 2024
Program support
$4,500
Chicago Symphony Orchestra · Chicago, IL · 2022
Program support
$4,000
Arizona Theatre Company · Tucson, AZ · 2023
Program support
$3,500
Lyric Opera of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
Program support
$3,500
Arizona Public Media · Tucson, AZ · 2022
Program support
$3,000
Arizona Theatre Company · Tucson, AZ · 2022
Program support
$2,000
Refugee One · Chicago, IL · 2023
Program support
$1,500
National Academy of Medicine · Washington, DC · 2023
Program support
$1,500
National Academy of Medicine · Washington, DC · 2022
Program support
$1,500
Refugee One · Chicago, IL · 2022
Program support
$1,000
Arizona Public Media · Tucson, AZ · 2024
Program support
$1,000
Planned Parenthood Federation of America · New York, NY · 2024
Program support
$1,000
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Women's board
$1,000
Booth School of Business · Chicago, IL · 2023
Program support
$1,000
New York 529 College Savings Plan · Boston, MA · 2023
Program support
$1,000
Planned Parenthood Federation of America · New York, NY · 2023
Program support
$1,000
South Seaport Museum · New York, NY · 2023
Program support
$1,000
Tucson Festival of Books · Tucson, AZ · 2023
Program support
$1,000
Wildlife Conservation Network · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Program support
$1,000
International Anti-Poaching Foundation · Alexandria, VA · 2022
Program support
$1,000
Planned Parenthood Federation of America · New York, NY · 2022
Program support
$1,000
The Fishing School · Washington, DC · 2022
Program support
$1,000
Tucson Festival of Books · Tucson, AZ · 2022
Program support
$1,000
U of a Foundation · Tucson, AZ · 2022
Program support
$1,000
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
Booth school of business
$1,000
Wildlife Conservation Network · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Program support
$850
Smithsonian · Washington, DC · 2024
Program support
$700
Wttw Wfmt · Chicago, IL · 2024
Program support
$500
Arizona Land and Water Trust · Tucson, AZ · 2024
Program support
$500
Committee of Human Rights · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Program support
$500
Compassion and Choices · Denver, CO · 2024
Program support
$500
Invisible Theater · Tucson, AZ · 2024
Program support
$500
Obama Foundation · Topeka, KS · 2024
Program support
$500
University of Arizona Museum of Art · Tucson, AZ · 2024
Program support
$500
US Holocaust Memorial Museum · Annapolis Junction, MD · 2024
Program support
$500
Invisible Theater · Tucson, AZ · 2023
Program support
$500
Hill School · Pottstown, PA · 2022
Program support
$500
Latin School of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
Program support
$500
Shady Hill School · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Program support
$500
World Learning · Washington, DC · 2022
Program support
$400
Wbez Public Radio · Chicago, IL · 2024
Program support
$350
Wttw Wfmt · Chicago, IL · 2023
Program support
$350
Wttw Wfmt · Chicago, IL · 2022
Program support
$300
Nature Conservancy · Arlington, VA · 2024
Program support
$275
Chicago Humanities Festival · Chicago, IL · 2023
Program support
$250
Amerind Museum · Dragoon, AZ · 2024
Program support
$250
Buckingham Browne Nichols Fund · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Program support
$250
Harvard Radcliffe Institute · Boston, MA · 2024
Program support
$250
Shady Hill School · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Program support
$250
Sierra Club · Merrifield, VA · 2024
Program support
$250
Therapeutic Riding of Tucson · Tucson, AZ · 2024
Program support
$250
Tucson Museum of Art · Tucson, AZ · 2024
Program support
$250
Compassion and Choices · Denver, CO · 2023
Program support
$250
Gabriel'S Angels · Phoenix, AZ · 2023
Program support
$250
J Street · Washington, DC · 2023
Program support
$250
Smithsonian · Washington, DC · 2023
Program support
$250
Therapeutic Riding of Tucson · Tucson, AZ · 2023
Program support
$210
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Program support
$200
Literacy Connects · Tucson, AZ · 2024
Program support
$200
True Concord Voices and Orchestra · Tucson, AZ · 2024
Program support
$200
World Life Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Program support
$200
Nature Conservancy · Arlington, VA · 2023
Program support
$200
Shady Hill School · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Program support
$100
Wbez Public Radio · Chicago, IL · 2023
Program support
$100
Wbez Public Radio · Chicago, IL · 2022
Program support

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