Harold E Hirsch Foundationinc
Millwood, NY · EIN 13-6160989. Reported 161 grants totalling $157,718 to 65 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Harold E Hirsch Foundationinc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $180. Half of everything it gave fell between $100 and $300; the smallest was $25 and the largest $17,262. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Congregation Sons of Israel | Briarcliff Manor, NY | $56,314 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Temple Emanuel | Newton, MA | $24,404 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania the Penn Fund | Philadelphia, PA | $18,400 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Northern Westchester Hospital Foundation | Mount Kisco, NY | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Skidmore College | Saratoga Springs, NY | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Historic Hudson Valley Development Office | Pocantico Hills, NY | $8,800 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Wildlife Conservation Society | Bronx, NY | $5,638 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Union College | Schenectady, NY | $2,600 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | Washington, DC | $1,400 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Horace Greeley Scholarship | Chappaqua, NY | $1,200 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| New Castle Historical Society | Chappaqua, NY | $1,200 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| New York Botanical Garden | New York, NY | $1,200 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Making Headway Foundation | Chappaqua, NY | $1,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mystic Seaport Museum | Mystic, CT | $904 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation | New York, NY | $800 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Colonial Williamsburg Foundation | Williamsburg, VA | $750 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Adl | New York, NY | $720 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| New England Aquarium | Boston, MA | $623 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mental Health Association in Ulster County Inc Resource Development | Lake Katrine, NY | $500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mental Health Association of Westchester | Tarrytown, NY | $500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Tuck Annual Giving | Hanover, NH | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Union College Hillel | Schenectady, NY | $450 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Museum of Science Boston | Boston, MA | $420 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American Cancer Society | New York, NY | $400 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American Red Cross | New York, NY | $400 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Feeding Westchester | Elmsford, NY | $400 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Hias | Washington, DC | $400 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hope's Door | Hawthorne, NY | $400 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mount Kisco Interfaith Food Pantry Inc | Mount Kisco, NY | $400 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Westmoreland Sanctuary Inc | Mount Kisco, NY | $400 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jacob Burns Film Center | Pleasantville, NY | $380 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mount Kisco Child Care Center | Mount Kisco, NY | $340 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Teatown | Ossining, NY | $340 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Clearwater | Beacon, NY | $320 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American Red Cross | Washington, DC | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Save the Sound | New Haven, CT | $300 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Tuck School of Business | Hanover, NH | $300 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Hudson Valley Lgbtq Community Center | Kingston, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pace University Gift Processing Center | Boston, MA | $250 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Red Hook Community Center | Red Hook, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Westchester Community College Foundation | Valhalla, NY | $250 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Maritime Aquarium | Norwalk, CT | $240 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Museum of Fine Arts | Boston, MA | $235 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Northern Westchester | Mount Kisco, NY | $200 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Center for Jewish History | New York, NY | $200 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Friends of the Rockefeller State Park Preserve | Sleepy Hollow, NY | $200 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| New York Public Radio | New York, NY | $200 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Wbur 909 Fm | Boston, MA | $200 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ma Horticultural Society | Wellesley, MA | $180 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wcny | Syracuse, NY | $170 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Alpha Phi Foundation | Evanston, IL | $150 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Alumni Association-Nymc | Valhalla, NY | $150 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Food Bank of the Hudson Valley | Worchester, MA | $150 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Zoo New England | Boston, MA | $150 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Touro College | New York, NY | $125 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Dress for Success | New York, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Junior League of Northern Westchester | Mount Kisco, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sierra Club | Merrifield, VA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Bardavon | Poughkeepsie, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ulster Co SPCA | Kingston, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous | West Orange, NJ | $90 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alpha Phi Foundation | Denver, CO | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Chappaqua Library | Chappaqua, NY | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Library | Chappaqua, NY | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Appalachian Mountain Club | Boston, MA | $25 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
44 of 65 (68%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 61%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Congregation Sons of Israel
CONTRIBUTIONS ARE GIVEN TO CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS TO ALLOW THEM TO PURSUE THEIR CHARITABLE PURPOSE.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 80 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 46 | $40,151 | $150 |
| 2021 | 34 | $35,034 | $182 |
| 2022 | 43 | $38,469 | $200 |
| 2023 | 38 | $44,064 | $200 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 68% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $180. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Harold E Hirsch Foundationinc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 610, Millwood, NY, 10546. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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