How much does Hermanson Family Charitable Foundation give?

Hermanson Family Charitable Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $2,900 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Hermanson Family Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (49%), Philanthropy (41%), International (3%).

Who are Hermanson Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Iowa State University Foundation ($336k), Riverside Lutheran Bible Camp ($13k), Samaritan's Purse ($13k).

Does Hermanson Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Hermanson Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Where is Hermanson Family Charitable Foundation based?

Hermanson Family Charitable Foundation is based in IA.

Hermanson Family Charitable Foundation

Hermanson Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Hermanson Family Charitable Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Hermanson Family Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, South Story Bank 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.

$3k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$1k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$680kPhilanthropy$579kInternational$39kReligion$21kHealth$14kHuman Services$12kFood & Nutrition$10kPublic Benefit$8kOther$0

02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500

Median grant

States reached

$42k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
RIPE FOR HARVEST	$1,000
ROLAND STORY SCHOOL FOUNDATION	$500
IOWA 4-H FOUNDATION	$500
JUDICIAL WATCH	$500
HOPE MINISTRIES	$300
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$100

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 (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 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$467k · 30 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$467k

$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%

+50%

Still filing today

43%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationReligionHuman ServicesArts & CulturePublic BenefitInternationalOther

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

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
7× · 2017–2023 · $336k · revenue +1%
SP
SAMARITAN'S PURSE
6× · 2017–2022 · $13k · revenue +134%
UW
UNITED WAY OF STORY COUNTY INC
6× · 2017–2022 · $11k · revenue +5%

Funded once

SC
STORY CITY ANTIQUE CAROUSEL
one grant, 2018 · $1k
BB
BIBLE BAPTIST SHEPHERD CHURCH
one grant, 2021 · $1k
IS
IOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +179%

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.

University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

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,…

Education

United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy

Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

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…

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Washburn University 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.

Education

University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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State University of Iowa Alumni Association

Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.

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American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa

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…

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Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education

State University of Iowa Foundation

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…

Education

University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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Greater Austin Christian Foundation

Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.

Religion

Grand View University

Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 48 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)

25/26

Grantees still filing

22/26

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$675,014Philanthropy$579,322Other$102,900Health$14,300Religion$13,200Public Benefit$7,850Human Services$6,050

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.

Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA24.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Hermanson Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hermanson Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

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