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Hereford Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Hereford Family Foundation Inc

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.

$206k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$206k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Human Services$130kHealth$110kEnvironment$30kInternational$30kHousing & Shelter$25kEducation$10kAnimals$10kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$206,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIOUS$206,000
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 (FY22–22, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VISION CASHIERS: $5k → 18%CANINE ASSISTANTS: $35k → 13%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

NY
OR
CT
VA
TN
NC
DC
MS
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

13%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$80k · 3 repeat orgs$516k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
20

Total granted

$80k
$310k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
+14%

Still filing today

33%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $30k · revenue -4%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $25k
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $25k

Funded once

  • CA
    CANINE ASSISTANTS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +17%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
3
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
4
Childfund International Usa

Childfund's mission is to help deprived, excluded and vulnerable children have the capacity to become young adults, parents and leaders who bring lasting and positive change to their communities, and to promote societies whose individuals…

International
5
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
6
World Vision Inc

World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…

International
7
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
8
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
9
Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International
10
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
11
Childfund Alliance

Childfund alliance is a global network of 11 child-focused development and humanitarian organizations working in more than 70 countries. we help nearly 30 million children and their families to overcome poverty and the underlying…

International
12
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc; the most unlike its peers is World Wildlife Fund 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

9 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. 9 of the 24 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIOUS: $206,000 · OtherVARIOUSIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE SALVATION ARMY: $25,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYCHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATL: $25,000 · OtherCHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $25,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $25,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $25,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTAAMERICAN FND FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $15,000 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIOR: $15,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY: $15,000 · Other+5 more: $40,000 · Other+5 moreSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $25,000 · HealthMERCY FLIGHTS INC: $15,000 · HealthTHE ADAPTIVE LEARNING CENTER FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN INC: $5,000 · HealthCANINE ASSISTANTS INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesVISION CASHIERS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $15,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $15,000 · InternationalBAYLOR SCHOOL: $5,000 · Education
Other$446,000Health$45,000Human Services$40,000Environment$30,000International$30,000Education$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCANINE ASSISTANTS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY FLIGHTS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADAPTIVE LEARNING CENTER FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVISION CASHIERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBAYLOR SCHOOL: $5,000 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 CANINE ASSISTANTS INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds MERCY FLIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE ADAPTIVE LEARNING CENTER FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds VISION CASHIERS INC ↗
  • Who funds BAYLOR SCHOOL ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Hereford Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hereford Family Foundation Inc. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Mercy Flights Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 24 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $233k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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