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Your donation fuels innovation. With your help, Hertz Fellows pursue cutting-edge research with fewer constraints — accelerating progress in science and technology for the public good.
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Donating to the Hertz Foundation fuels our extraordinary community of brilliant minds in their quest to deliver breakthroughs. While your gift today primarily supports the next cohort of graduate students receiving five-year fellowships, the expertise and guidance of the entire community speeds the research and the application of each Fellow’s findings to the real world, both as new products and new fields of inquiry. Your donation of any size will have impact in ways you may not have imagined, in ways that will make history.
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Provides a consistent and reliable stream of support for the nation’s most exceptional innovators.
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Honor a special person’s achievements, reinforce their passion for scientific advancement, or commemorate their life.
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Many companies offer employee matching gift programs, effectively doubling or even tripling your donation.
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A Hertz Fellowship helped launch biotech pioneer Michael Schnall-Levin’s career as founding scientist at 10x Genomics. Today, he’s helping fund the next generation of innovators.
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Empowering the nation’s most exceptional innovators
Working together to solve our toughest challenges
Advancing American scientific and technological leadership
A lifelong community that nurtures curiosity, connection and collaboration
Honor a legacy, shape the future.
Endowed or named fellowships leave a lasting mark. Celebrate a person, family, or cause—and follow the journey of the Fellow your gift supports.
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The Hertz Foundation has achieved the Platinum Seal of Transparency Rating on Guidestar, the world’s largest source of information on non-profit organizations. A platinum status demonstrates the Hertz Foundation’s exceptional trustworthiness, financial strength, fiscal management best practices, and tangible successful outcomes in support of its mission.
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The Hertz Foundation has a 100% score on Charity Navigator, earning it a Four-Star rating, the highest indicator of organizational effectiveness and transparency from the world’s most-utilized independent charity evaluator. This powerful trust indicator demonstrates that donors can give with confidence due the Hertz Foundation’s financial health, fiscal responsibility, and accountability.
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The Hertz Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and our taxpayer ID# is 36-2411723. Your contributions to the Hertz Foundation are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law. Please review our financial information to learn more about our financial strategy.
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