· Private foundation
Herby 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARLES CITY LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF IOWA | $4,000 |
| OAK HILL COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS | $3,000 |
| PAWS HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| ACBC FOOD SHELF | $1,250 |
| ALEXANDRA HOPE HOUSE | $1,000 |
| NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY PATHWAYS OF STEELE CO | $1,000 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $1,000 |
| CHARLES CITY ART ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| CITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| MID-IOWA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 42% of those 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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CCCharles City Public Library Foundation6× · 2018–2023 · $13k · revenue +30%
- CICITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION5× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +47%
- CPCOMMUNITY PATHWAYS OF STEELE COUNTY5× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- NINorth Iowa Community Collegone grant, 2021 · $25k
- CCCharles City Schools - Fine Arts Programone grant, 2022 · $25k
- APAMERICAN PASSENGER TRAIN HISTORY MUSEUM INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -23%
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.
Provide food to those in need.
Food pantry and meal service for the low income/needy people of central iowa. food at first service approximately 25000 people/meals in the current year. the food pantry served approximately 17000 people and 400 familes in the current…
Provide food for hungry individuals in martin county, mn
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
To help fill the needs of mills county area residents who need basic food and personal items allowing them to live a better quality of life in times of need
Providing food to the needy
Title iii older americans act
Feed the needy people of benton county
Obtain, warehouse, and distribute food products to client agencies to help alleviate hunger in southern iowa communities.
Provide food to local needy
To provide food to the needy and indigent people in pipestone county, minnesota and for purposes incident thereto.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is City Improvement Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 47 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.
- Who funds FLOYD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Charles City Public Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds CITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PATHWAYS OF STEELE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PASSENGER TRAIN HISTORY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds OWATONNA HOPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF OWATONNA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL 19TH AMENDMENT SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds 180 DEGREES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK ↗
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: First Security Foundation · Tomson Family Foundation Trust · Otto Bremer Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Herby Family Foundation 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.