Harold E Hirsch Foundationinc
Millwood, NY · EIN 13-6160989. Reported 201 grants totalling $200,737 to 73 recipients across tax years 2020-2024. 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 $200. 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. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Congregation Sons of Israel | Briarcliff Manor, NY | $70,832 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Temple Emanuel | Newton, MA | $32,888 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania the Penn Fund | Philadelphia, PA | $23,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Northern Westchester Hospital Foundation | Mount Kisco, NY | $12,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Skidmore College | Saratoga Springs, NY | $12,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Historic Hudson Valley Development Office | Pocantico Hills, NY | $11,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Wildlife Conservation Society | Bronx, NY | $6,897 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Union College | Schenectady, NY | $3,700 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | Washington, DC | $1,650 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| New Castle Historical Society | Chappaqua, NY | $1,550 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| New York Botanical Garden | New York, NY | $1,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Horace Greeley Scholarship | Chappaqua, NY | $1,450 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Making Headway Foundation | Chappaqua, NY | $1,250 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Mystic Seaport Museum | Mystic, CT | $1,079 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation | New York, NY | $1,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Tuck Annual Giving | Hanover, NH | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Adl | New York, NY | $900 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| New England Aquarium | Boston, MA | $852 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Feeding Westchester | Elmsford, NY | $754 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Colonial Williamsburg Foundation | Williamsburg, VA | $750 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Museum of Science Boston | Boston, MA | $700 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Westmoreland Sanctuary Inc | Mount Kisco, NY | $700 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Jacob Burns Film Center | Pleasantville, NY | $660 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mount Kisco Interfaith Food Pantry Inc | Mount Kisco, NY | $600 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hias | Washington, DC | $500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| 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 |
| Union College Hillel | Schenectady, NY | $450 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Teatown | Ossining, NY | $425 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Clearwater | Beacon, NY | $420 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Cancer Society | New York, NY | $400 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American Red Cross | New York, NY | $400 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| American Red Cross | Washington, DC | $400 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hope's Door | Hawthorne, NY | $400 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Center for Jewish History | New York, NY | $375 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Mount Kisco Child Care Center | Mount Kisco, NY | $340 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Save the Sound | New Haven, CT | $300 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Tuck School of Business | Hanover, NH | $300 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Friends of the Rockefeller State Park Preserve | Sleepy Hollow, NY | $250 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Hudson Valley Lgbtq Community Center | Kingston, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New York Public Radio | New York, NY | $250 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Pace University Gift Processing Center | Boston, MA | $250 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Red Hook Community Center | Red Hook, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Schofield Sch PTO | Wellesley, MA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| 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 |
| Camp Avoda | Middleboro, MA | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| 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 |
| Alpha Phi Foundation | Denver, CO | $100 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Dress for Success | New York, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Friends of the Chappaqua Library | Chappaqua, NY | $100 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Greater Hudson Valley Council BSA | Fishkill, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Junior League of Northern Westchester | Mount Kisco, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lustgarten Foundation | Boone, WI | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Planned Parenthood | Washington DC, MD | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sierra Club | Merrifield, VA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Bardavon | Poughkeepsie, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Kate | Old Saybrook, CT | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ulster Co SPCA | Kingston, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| West Point Jewish Chapel Fund | West Oint, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous | West Orange, NJ | $90 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chappaqua School Foundation | Chappaqua, NY | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Library | Chappaqua, NY | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Appalachian Mountain Club | Boston, MA | $25 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
48 of 73 (66%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 70%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
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 activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 91 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
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 |
| 2024 | 40 | $43,019 | $214 |
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
67% of its giving went to organizations in New York. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $200. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- 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 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
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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