· Private foundation
Alonzo F & Norris B Herndon Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Albany State University | $3,500 |
| Georgia Southern | $2,500 |
| University of Wisconsin | $2,500 |
| Middle Georgia State University | $2,500 |
| Tallahassee Community College | $2,500 |
| valparaiso university | $2,500 |
| university of the arts | $2,500 |
| Georgia State University | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 53% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2018, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- GSGeorgia State University2× · 2017–2018 · $8k
- GSGeorgia Southern2× · 2017–2018 · $5k
- MGMiddle Georgia State University2× · 2017–2018 · $5k
Funded once
- KSKennesaw State Universityone grant, 2017 · $5k
- NCNorth Carolina Central Universityone grant, 2017 · $3k
- XUXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +41%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Organization's mission is to accept donations from sources within the United States for the benefit of the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The organization operates, manages and promotes ancillary services for the benefit of the campus community, including faculty, staff and students in harmony with the educational mission and goals of the state university college at suny…
Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.
To inform, involve and serve members of the ecu family throughout their lifelong relationship with the university through the promotion of goodwill and recognition of students and alumni.
The mission of the alumni association is to benefit the university of southern mississippi, its students, and alumni through upholding traditions, sponsoring activities, events, and publications.
Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate (continued in schedule o)students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous…
Clu is an institution offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in the liberal arts and sciences.
Organization's mission gallaudet university, federally chartered in 1864, is a bilingual, diverse, multicultural institution of higher education that ensures the intellectual and professional advancement of deaf and hard of hearing…
The university's mission is to promote academic excellence in a christian environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Savannah State University Foundation Inc and Subsidiaries and the most unlike its peers is The University of the Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Alonzo F & Norris B Herndon Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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