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Carl and Henrietta Herrmann Family Foundation at a glance

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Carl and Henrietta Herrmann Family Foundation

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.

$158k
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$400kHealth$329kEducation$209kReligion$82kHuman Services$81kHousing & Shelter$56kArts & Culture$36kRecreation & Sports$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$30,000
ST BEDE THE VENERABLE$25,000
LOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION$15,000
PREGNANCY HELP CENTER OF SAN GABRIEL VALLEY$10,000
YWCA OF GLENDALE$10,000
DOOR OF HOPE$5,000
ELIZABETH HOUSE$5,000
ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION$5,000
NORTHVIEW HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
INTERNATIONAL SPORTS AND MUSIC PROJECT$5,000
MARY HEALTH OF THE SICK CONVALESCENT & NURSING HOSPITAL$4,000
CALTECH ASSOCIATES$4,000
UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES$3,000
NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
02The need
03

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%SPORTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR HOMES: $2k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR HOMES: $1k → 11%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $3k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $3k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $2k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $2k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $2k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $2k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $2k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $2k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
IL
NY
CA
CO
AZ
DC
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Carl and Henrietta Herrmann Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 0%.

Carl and Henrietta Herrmann Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 53 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

53 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
13

Total granted

$1.2M
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+88%

Still filing today

43%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationReligionEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • LA
    LOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +148%
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +4%
  • PE
    PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +254%

Funded once

  • JE
    JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY
    one grant, 2018 · $12k
  • HT
    HOLY TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • SV
    SUN VALLEY WRITERS CONERENCE
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
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.

1
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
2
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
3
Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services

To provide comprehensive, family-centered social, educational and behavioral health services that encourage children, adolescents and their families to lead self reliant, stable and productive lives.

Human Services
4
Valle Del Sol Inc

Valle del sol inspires positive change by investing in health and human services to strengthen families with tools and skills for self-sufficiency and by building the next generation of latino and diverse leaders.

Health
5
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
6
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
7
Disability Rights California

Drc works in partnership with disabled people to defend rights, advance opportunities, grow power, and expand public support for disability justice in california and beyond.

Civil Rights
8
Biocom California

Accelerating life science success.

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9
Cancer Support Community Valley Ventura/Santa Barbara Inc

Cancer support community valley/ventura/santa barbaras mission is to uplift and strengthen people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.

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10
Heritage Housing Partners

To promote historic preservation and neighborhood revitalization by developing, owning, and operating rental or for sale low-income housing property.

Housing & Shelter
11
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc

The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…

Education
12
Burbank Housingsr Corporation

To own and operate affordable rental housing.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca of Glendale and Pasadena; the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 71 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
21/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EDUCATING AUTISTICS CHAIN MAI FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherEDUCATING AUTISTICS CHAIN MAI FOUNDATIONNORTHVIEW HIGH SCHOOL: $46,500 · OtherNORTHVIEW HIGH SCHOOLYWCA OF GLENDALE AND PASADENA: $35,000 · OtherYWCA OF GLENDALE AND PASADENACALTECH ASSOCIATES: $32,000 · OtherNOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL: $29,000 · OtherFLINTRIDGE SACRED HEART ACADEMY: $27,000 · OtherST BEDE THE VENERABLE: $25,000 · OtherELIZABETH HOUSE: $25,000 · OtherDIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $24,250 · OtherTHE CAMPBELL CENTER: $23,750 · OtherLA LIONS CO EL SEGUNDO REGENTS: $22,750 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $22,000 · Other+40 more: $259,650 · Other+40 moreLOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION INC: $400,250 · EnvironmentLOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION …BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $105,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UN…Mary Health of the Sick Convalescent & Nursing Hospital Incorporated: $26,150 · HealthMary Health of …BREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS: $21,750 · HealthBREAST CANCER P…PREGNANCY HELP CENTER OF SAN GABRIEL VALLEY INC: $10,000 · HealthPREGNANCY HELP …ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUND…+3 more: $10,500 · Health+3 morePASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $37,500 · PhilanthropyVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,000 · PhilanthropySUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC: $26,000 · EducationHILLSIDE SCHOOL AND LEARNING CENTER: $14,000 · EducationUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $18,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $6,750 · Human ServicesMAMBA & MAMBACITA SPORTS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR HOMES INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF PASADENA INC: $10,300 · ReligionTERI Inc: $2,000 · Religion
Other$621,900Environment$400,250Health$183,400Philanthropy$44,500Education$40,000Human Services$32,750Religion$12,300

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION INC: $400,250 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $105,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $37,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetYWCA OF GLENDALE AND PASADENA: $35,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL: $29,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMary Health of the Sick Convalescent & Nursing Hospital Incorporated: $26,150 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC: $26,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CAMPBELL CENTER: $23,750 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS: $21,750 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $18,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSIDE SCHOOL AND LEARNING CENTER: $14,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of South Pasadena Public Library Inc: $12,750 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetVILLA DE VIDA INC: $12,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF PASADENA INC: $10,300 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetPREGNANCY HELP CENTER OF SAN GABRIEL VALLEY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOOR OF HOPE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA OF THE FOOTHILLS: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $6,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SPORTS AND MUSIC PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDESI GEESTMAN FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR HOMES INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTERI Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION GRATITUDE INC: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds LOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YWCA OF GLENDALE AND PASADENA ↗
  • Who funds NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Mary Health of the Sick Convalescent & Nursing Hospital Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CAMPBELL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds HILLSIDE SCHOOL AND LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Friends of South Pasadena Public Library Inc ↗
  • Who funds VILLA DE VIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF PASADENA INC ↗
  • Who funds PREGNANCY HELP CENTER OF SAN GABRIEL VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DOOR OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF THE FOOTHILLS ↗

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.

California Community …The Rose Hills Founda…The Ahmanson Foundati…Pasadena Community Fo…Carrie Estelle Doheny…Catholic Community Fo…The Timothy and Judit…Mayr George H - MainSempra FoundationOrange County Communi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…
California Community FoundationCA20.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Timothy and Judith Smith Foundation · Mayr George H - Main · Sempra Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Carl and Henrietta Herrmann Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carl and Henrietta Herrmann 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%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 71 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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