· Private foundation
Hermanson Family Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIPE FOR HARVEST | $1,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $500 |
| ROLAND STORY SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $500 |
| IOWA 4-H FOUNDATION | $500 |
| HOPE MINISTRIES | $300 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $100 |
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 (FY20–21, $550) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
30 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $336k · revenue +1%- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE6× · 2017–2022 · $13k · revenue +134%
- UWUNITED WAY OF STORY COUNTY INC6× · 2017–2022 · $11k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- SCSTORY CITY ANTIQUE CAROUSELone grant, 2018 · $1k
- ISIOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +179%
- BBBIBLE BAPTIST SHEPHERD CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.
The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The university of iowa center for advancement's mission is to advance the university of iowa through engagement and philanthropy. we serve our alumni and friends in the state and the region, throughout the country, and around the world. we…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 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. 26 of the 48 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 COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
- Who funds WALDORF LUTHERAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF STORY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds LIVING HISTORY FARMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOBILITY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds IOWA 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STORY CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CRUSADERS ↗
- Who funds Dresses For Orphans Inc ↗
- Who funds MARY GREELEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · South Story Bank Charitable Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Hermanson Family Charitable 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.