· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARLES CITY LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF IOWA | $4,000 |
| OAK HILL COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| PAWS HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| ACBC FOOD SHELF | $1,250 |
| COMMUNITY PATHWAYS OF STEELE CO | $1,000 |
| NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| CITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| MID-IOWA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS | $1,000 |
| CHARLES CITY ART ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $1,000 |
| ALEXANDRA HOPE HOUSE | $1,000 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- CCCharles City Schools - Fine Arts Programone grant, 2022 · $25k
- NINorth Iowa Community Collegone grant, 2021 · $25k
- APAMERICAN PASSENGER TRAIN HISTORY MUSEUM INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -23%
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.
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.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 47 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 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 FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds OWATONNA HOPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF OWATONNA INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL 19TH AMENDMENT SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds BETHEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Herby Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herby Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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