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Herbert 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.

$389k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$97k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$478kEducation$118kReligion$82kInternational$52kMembership Benefit$49kYouth Development$47kArts & Culture$3kHuman Services$2k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
$45,595
Median grant
4
States reached
$219k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$96,960
GRAFTON SCHOOL INC$77,849
ST JUDE$49,240
PI BETA PHI FOUNDATION$48,876
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$45,595
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OF MNND$35,254
PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION$15,626
RELATE COUNSELING CENTER$9,000
YOUNG LIFE$7,120
THE BOWERY MISSION$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 (FY22–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SOUTHWEST OPTIONS FOR WOMEN: $2k → 11%RELATE COUNSELING CENTER: $16k → 11%RELATE COUNSELING CENTER: $12k → 11%RELATE COUNSELING CENTER: $9k → 11%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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$673k · 10 repeat orgs$158k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$673k
$109k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+13%

Still filing today

70%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationInternationalYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $149k · revenue +5%
  • GS
    GRAFTON SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    2× · 2022–2024 · $118k · revenue +33%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $114k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • TH
    TANZANIA HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
    one grant, 2022 · $52k · revenue -46%
  • TB
    THE BARSTOOL FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD
    one grant, 2022 · $23k
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
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
2
Nebraska Methodist Hospital

Nebraska methodist hospital (commonly know as "methodist hospital") is an acute care facility dedicated to bringing high quality care for the mind, body and spirit of every person. we provide community-based health care, health education…

Health
3
Planned Parenthood North Central States Foundation

To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.

Human Services
4
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
5
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland Foundation

Supporting planned parenthood of the heartland, inc.

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6
Physicians Clinic Inc

Methodist physicians clinic provides accessible, quality medical care through its integrated team of health professionals, including specialists in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery,…

Health
7
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
8
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
9
Inova Health System Foundation

Inova health system foundation is the parent of inova health system (ihs). ihs provides healthcare and related services throughout northern virginia and the greater metropolitan washington, d.c. area, including certain contiguous counties…

Health
10
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

—
11
St Martin Hospital Inc

To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
12
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OF MNND: $95,925 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OF MNNDST JUDE: $71,279 · OtherST JUDEPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION: $58,816 · OtherPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATIONPI BETA PHI FOUNDATION: $48,876 · OtherPI BETA PHI FOUNDATIONTHE BARSTOOL FUND: $30,000 · OtherTHE BARSTOOL FUNDPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $22,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD+3 more: $6,066 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $148,604 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATIONAmerican Heart Association Inc: $113,642 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncGRAFTON SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $117,849 · EducationGRAFTON SCHOOL I…TANZANIA HEALTH PARTNERSHIP: $51,643 · InternationalRelate Inc: $37,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHWEST OPTIONS FOR WOMEN: $2,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG LIFE: $16,120 · Youth DevelopmentChristian Herald Association Inc: $10,500 · Religion
Other$333,462Health$262,246Education$117,849International$51,643Human Services$39,000Youth Development$16,120Religion$10,500

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 budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $148,604 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGRAFTON SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $117,849 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $113,642 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION: $58,816 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTANZANIA HEALTH PARTNERSHIP: $51,643 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetPI BETA PHI FOUNDATION: $48,876 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRelate Inc: $37,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $16,120 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST OPTIONS FOR WOMEN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GRAFTON SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TANZANIA HEALTH PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds PI BETA PHI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Relate Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds Christian Herald Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST OPTIONS FOR WOMEN ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Herbert Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herbert Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Herbert Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Herbert Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 17 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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