The Kirsch Family Foundation Incorporated
This organization is a private foundation dedicated to supporting various charitable causes. Its mission centers around promoting education, addressing food insecurity, and advocating for legal education, as well as supporting animal preservation initiatives. The foundation primarily serves educational institutions and organizations that focus on social welfare, housing, and food security. Through its grantmaking, it demonstrates a commitment to enhancing educational opportunities and providing assistance to vulnerable populations.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
Ideal Applicant
An established national or regional nonprofit working in education, scholarships, literacy, food/housing assistance, legal education, or related charitable work that seeks modest project or program support and has an existing relationship or network connection to the foundation or its grantees.
Good Fit
- • Mission aligns with education, scholarship, literacy, food insecurity, housing, or legal education.
- • Organizational scale appropriate for small grants (typical awards in the hundreds to low thousands).
- • Existing or introducible relationship to the foundation, board members, or current grantees.
- • Track record of measurable program delivery and stewardship for small unrestricted or programmatic gifts.
Geography
Latest-year grants reached ten states and the largest state received about 35% of dollars; giving is distributed across multiple states rather than confined to a single city or county.
Recipient Variety
The foundation funded 14 distinct recipients in 2024 (and 7–16 recipients in prior years) across education, food, housing, legal and animal preservation, showing a fairly broad set of independent grantees for a small private foundation.
New Applicants
The foundation's filings and application metadata indicate it funds only preselected organizations and there is no public application route; although earlier years showed substantial new-grantee turnover, the explicit preselection policy and limited public contact information make entry for unfamiliar applicants unlikely.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
