Hoerle Foundation

• The foundation makes contributions only to organisations it has preselected and does not accept unsolicited requests, so a cold proposal is unlikely to be considered; a grant writer should look for a route through someone who already knows the foundation.
• Its grants span schools and universities, performing arts, museums, churches, environmental, animal-welfare and health organisations, so subject fit matters less than being known to it.
• Half of its 101 grants to organisations were $1,000 or less and about 8 in 10 fell between $150 and $20,000, so a modest request matches its typical grant, though its largest grant was about $755,000.
• In its most recent filing, 97% of grant dollars to organisations went to organisations it had also funded in earlier filings, so a new applicant should expect to be brought in through a relationship rather than a public call.
• The filing shows no geographic focus, and the grants have mainly gone to Connecticut and New York, but that is a pattern in the grants rather than a stated rule.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Kent School · Charitable
  $721,0002024 tax year
• Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York · Charitable
  $450,0002024 tax year
• Dancing Classrooms · Charitable
  $54,0002024 tax year
• Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust · Charitable
  $27,5002024 tax year
• The New York Historical · Charitable
  $20,0002024 tax year
• Saint John's Episcopal Church · Charitable
  $18,0002024 tax year
• Yale University · Charitable
  $10,5002024 tax year
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institutiion · Charitable
  $10,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.