How much does Herman Robert E Charitable Tr Main give?

Herman Robert E Charitable Tr Main reported 19 grants totaling $614,990 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Herman Robert E Charitable Tr Main fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (19%), Youth Development (15%), Recreation & Sports (12%).

Who are Herman Robert E Charitable Tr Main's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: WF Events Inc ($360k), Coyote Clay Target League Inc ($302k), Lighthouse Church of Fargo ($203k).

Does Herman Robert E Charitable Tr Main fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Herman Robert E Charitable Tr Main accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Herman Robert E Charitable Tr Main?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Midcontinent Foundation, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation, North Dakota Community Foundation.

Where is Herman Robert E Charitable Tr Main based?

Herman Robert E Charitable Tr Main is based in MO.

Herman Robert E Charitable Tr Main

Herman Robert E Charitable Tr Main at a glance

· Private foundation

Herman Robert E Charitable Tr Main

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$615k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$75k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$629kYouth Development$507kRecreation & Sports$407kReligion$402kEducation$308kArts & Culture$269kHealth$181kFood & Nutrition$150kOther$0

02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k16 grants · $472k
$50k–250k2 grants · $135k

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WF EVENTS LLC	$75,000
CITY OF COLUMBUS	$60,000
WESTERN STAR AVIATION EDUCATION FOUND	$45,000
COYOTE CLAY TARGET LEAGUE INC	$40,000
HOSPICE OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY	$35,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MINOT INC	$34,000
ANNE CARLSEN CENTER	$32,000
JEREMIAH PROGRAM	$30,000
GREAT PLAINS FOOD BANK	$30,000
LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH OF FARGO	$30,000
HARMONIC CREATIVE WORLD	$30,000
CARE CENTER INC	$30,000
DOWN HOME	$30,000
PERRY CENTER INC	$29,490
MON-DAK GYMNASTICS SUPPORT GROUP	$25,000

02The need

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 (FY23–25, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

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

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.5M · 22 repeat orgs$795k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against -57% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.5M

$606k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

-57%

Still filing today

86%

26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther

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

WE
WF Events Inc
5× · 2020–2025 · $360k · revenue +140%
CC
COYOTE CLAY TARGET LEAGUE INC
4× · 2022–2025 · $302k · revenue +55%
VF
Village Family Service Center
5× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +21%

Funded once

WC
WILLISTON COMMUNITY BUILDERS
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -65%
DB
DAKOTA BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH
one grant, 2022 · $51k · revenue +14%
SW
STAGE WEST COMMUNITY THEATRE
one grant, 2022 · $50k

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.

Catholic Charities North Dakota

Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.

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North Dakota News Cooperative

Arts & Culture

Dickinson Area Chamber of Commerce

The dickinson area chamber of commerce will provide leadership to promote a progressive business environment.

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Mankato Area Foundation

The Mankato Area Foundation is a trusted resource that connects donors with causes they care about, provides funding to enhance our region and serves as a collaborative community partner.

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Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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Dakota Plains Legal Services

To promote equal access to justice and improve the lives of low-income clients through quality legal assistance

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Greater North Dakota Chamber of Commerce

The greater north dakota chamber of commerce works on behalf of our members to advocate for a positive business climate.

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North Dakota State Fair Foundation

The mission of the north dakota state fair foundation is to develop lifelong relationships with donors to secure the philanthropic gifts that will enhance and support the work of the north dakota state fair.

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Women and Technology

Amplifying the economic voice of women business owners through advocacy and access to critical resources.

Human Services

Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition

Winona Health Foundation

The mission of the Winona Health Foundation is to gather, steward, and distribute resources needed to support and advance the mission of Winona Health and its affiliates.

Health

Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Anne Carlsen Center; the most unlike its peers is Fargo Air Museum. 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

27 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. 27 of the 46 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

16/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,614,350Recreation & Sports$466,500Youth Development$385,000Human Services$342,490Education$203,000Arts & Culture$189,000Food & Nutrition$130,000

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.

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.

Midcontinent FoundationMN27.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Midcontinent Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · North Dakota Community Foundation · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Dakota Medical Foundation · The Barry Foundation · Offutt Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Fred M Hector Jr Charitable Trust · Alex Stern Family Foundation · Otter Tail Corporation Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans

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 Herman Robert E Charitable Tr Main funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herman Robert E Charitable Tr Main. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

8report 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home