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Alford H Hermann Family Foundation at a glance

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Alford H Hermann Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$750
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$750
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Youth Development$10kHealth$6kReligion$6kInternational$3kHousing & Shelter$1kSocial Science$1kFood & Nutrition$1kPublic Benefit$750Other$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$750
Median grant
1
States reached
$471k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RANDOLPH BORNE INSTITUE$750
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 42% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF HERSHEY: $2k → 12%RANDOLPH BORNE INSTITUE: $750 → 7%RANDOLF BOURNE INSTITUE: $500 → 10%RANDOLPH BOURNE INSTITUTE: $750 → 14%BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF HIGHLAMD LAKES: $103 → 9%INFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK: $500 → 10%SAN ANTONIO RESCUE MISSION: $300 → 16%SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 13%MISES INSTITUTE: $1k → 15%ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITA: $500 → 17%EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF HERSHEY: $1k → 12%RANDOLF BOURNE INSTITUTE: $500 → 7%ANTIWARCOM: $250 → 14%INFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK: $2k → 10%SAN ANTONIO RESCUE MISSION: $300 → 16%ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $500 → 17%HERSHEY FREE CHURCH: $1k → 12%RANDOLPH BOURNE INSTITUTE: $500 → 7%INFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK: $525 → 10%SAN ANTONIO RESCUE MISSION: $300 → 16%ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $500 → 17%EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF HERSHEY: $1k → 12%YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY: $5k → 10%SAN ANTONIO RESCUE MISSION: $250 → 16%HERSHEY FREE CHURCH: $1k → 12%YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY: $3k → 10%SAN ANTONIO RESCUE MISSION: $250 → 16%YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY: $3k → 10%THE SALVATION ARMY: $500 → 16%TEAM LUKE HOPE FOR MINDS: $517 → 10%THE SALVATION ARMY: $500 → 16%THE LIBERTARIAN INSTITUTE: $525 → 10%TEAM LUKE HOPE FOR MINDS: $506 → 10%ATX ADAPTED SPORTS: $527 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25k · 8 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

$25k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+2%

Still filing today

75%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’22’23’24’25
HealthYouth DevelopmentInternationalEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • YA
    YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $10k · revenue +63%
  • IC
    INFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +14%
  • RB
    RANDOLPH BOURNE INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2019–2025 · $2k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • LV
    LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $527
  • TL
    The Libertarian Institute
    one grant, 2024 · $525 · revenue +2%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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The Law & Humanities Institute
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2
Lex Rex Institute

To restore America's founding principles by defending the rule of law, educate the public on constitutional governance, and hold public officials accountable to their constitutional and moral duties.

Crime & Legal
3
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
4
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
5
Global Liberty Institute Usa

To research and educate on the topics of individual and economic freedom and the free exchange of ideas throughout the world.

Public Benefit
6
The Schull Institute
Education
7
Competition & Innovation Institute
Public Benefit
8
La Jolla Institute for Immunology

At la jolla institute for immunology, our scientists focus on understanding how the immune system works in order to promote human health and prevent disease. our discoveries apply to many diseases, ranging from diabetes to heart disease,…

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9
The Scintillon Institute

To create breakthrough technologies that catalyze discoveries in a spirited home for collaborative science. With the goal to build and disseminate new capabilities, engineer unique technologies, and pioneer pathways to fresh discoveries,…

Science & Tech
10
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Ltd

The ludwig institute for cancer research ltd is an international not-for-profit organization committed to preventing and controlling cancer through integrated laboratory and clinical research.

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11
Schmidt Ocean Institute
Science & Tech
12
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Informed Consent Action Network; the most unlike its peers is The Libertarian Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF HERSHEY: $5,500 · OtherEVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF HERSHEYSan Antonio Rescue Mission: $1,400 · OtherSan Antonio Rescue MissionLUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC: $1,200 · OtherLUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECON…THE SALVATION ARMY: $1,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYIndividual grant recipient: $527 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $500 · OtherRANDOLF BOURNE INSTITUTE: $500 · OtherST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $500 · Other+3 more: $453 · OtherYOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY INCINFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK: $2,592 · HealthINFORMED CONSENT AC…Team Luke Hope for Minds: $1,023 · HealthTeam Luke Hope for …ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S …SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $500 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS …RANDOLPH BOURNE INSTITUTE INC: $2,000 · InternationalThe Libertarian Institute: $525 · Education
Other$11,580Youth Development$10,000Health$5,115International$2,000Education$525

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK: $2,592 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRANDOLPH BOURNE INSTITUTE INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSan Antonio Rescue Mission: $1,400 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeam Luke Hope for Minds: $1,023 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Libertarian Institute: $525 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alford H Hermann Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alford H Hermann Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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