· Private foundation
Cm Herndon 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLACK MOUNTAIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $25,000 |
| TROSA | $15,000 |
| NC VETERINARY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| DUKE DIVINITY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $15,000 |
| INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE | $10,000 |
| CARING HOUSE | $10,000 |
| PHARMASSIST | $10,000 |
| THRESHOLD | $10,000 |
| FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD | $10,000 |
| DURHAM RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| MUSEUM OF LIFE AND SCIENCE | $10,000 |
| URBAN MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| A PLACE AT THE TABLE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
DUKE UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +49%- TRTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +5%
INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- BMBLACK MOUNTAIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $25k
- AHASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +53%
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.
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.
Established in 1983, Urban Ministries of Durham provides case management to end people's homelessness, offer emergency shelter, free meals, groceries, clothing, referral to needed resources, workforce and life skills training, and…
To provide access to stable, affordable housing for people who are homeless or at risk by developing and managing rental communities.
Build strong communities by developing, managing, and advocating for permanent affordable housing that provides durham residents with low to moderate incomes a stable foundation for achieving economic security.
Carolina hill provides safe and caring emergency shelter and supportive services to homeless families focusing efforts to achieve rapid re-housing and developing skills and resources to maintain it.
Triangle family services fulfills its mission of building a stronger community by strengthening the family through services in the following core program areas: family safety, financial stability, housing security, and mental health.
L'arche north carolina cultivates inclusive communities where people across the spectrum of intellectual and developmental disability identities live and flourish together.
Urban triage transforms culture, institutions, and communities to ensure a humane future.
Drueding center has become a tangible expression of holy redeemer health system's commitment to families and an embodiment of its mission: to care, comfort, and heal. drueding center partners with our families to build the skills to heal…
Secu family house at unc hospitals provides an affordable, safe, nurturing home away from home for seriously ill patients, their family members, and caregivers from throughout north carolina and beyond.
To provide food and shelter for the homeless
Safe harbour provides a continuum of housing and supportive services for homeless and nearly homeless individuals and families in our communities.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds CARING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THRESHOLD INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FOR NEW HOPE ↗
- Who funds A PLACE AT THE TABLE ↗
- Who funds EMILY KRZYZEWSKI CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DURHAM LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Fox Family Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke University Health System Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Duke University · Barnes Family Foundation · The Forest At Duke Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cm Herndon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cm Herndon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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