Daniel P Haerther Charitable Trust

• The filing says the trust accepts applications from qualified operating charities but gives no deadlines, so there is no submission date to plan around.
• State the purpose of your grant and include the customary documents that show financial responsibility.
• Most of its grants fall between $22,500 and $170,000, with a median of $100,000 and half of its 63 grants at $100,000 or less, so a request near that median is in line with its record, though the trustees set the award limits and its largest grant was $460,000.
• In its latest filing, 98% of its grant dollars to organisations went to organisations it had also funded earlier, so this is a largely relationship-led funder and a first approach may be harder to win.
• Its recipients include schools, social-service charities, a public aquarium and an arboretum, but no grant-wide purpose, subject programme or geographic focus is stated, so judge fit by how well your own purpose matches the operating charities it supports.

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

• Shedd Aquarium · General purposes
  $460,0002024 tax year
• Princeton University · General purposes
  $166,6672024 tax year
• De Lasalle Institute · General purposes
  $154,6502024 tax year
• DePaul College Prep · General purposes
  $148,3002024 tax year
• Holy Trinity High School · General purposes
  $148,2502024 tax year
• Mother McAuley High School · General purposes
  $148,1002024 tax year
• Saint Patrick High School · General purposes
  $148,1002024 tax year
• Trinity High School · General purposes
  $148,1002024 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.