Virginia · Private foundation
Herndon Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 138
- Grants FY2024
- 147
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 94 to 147
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $62M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Herndon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $388k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 130 | $5.6M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 147 | $5.7M | 18% |
| FY2022 | 131 | $5.4M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 116 | $4.2M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 109 | $4.1M | 27% |
| FY2019 | 116 | $4.6M | 40% |
| FY2018 | 94 | $4.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| VMI Foundation | $5,767,025 | 7 | 4% |
| University of Richmond | $3,504,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Jsargeant Reynolds Community College Educational Foundation Inc | $1,675,000 | 6 | 27% |
| Virginia Historical Society | $1,500,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Virginia Commonwealth University College of Engineering Foundation | $1,050,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Cristo Rey Richmond High School Inc | $575,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Medical College of Va Foundation | $530,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Richmond Ballet | $375,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Virginia Opera Association Inc | $370,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Up Rva | $362,500 | 6 | 7% |
Show all 176 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 74 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Herndon Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 169 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Robins Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Tesco Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn
How this is measured
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About Herndon Foundation
- How much does Herndon Foundation give?
- Herndon Foundation reported 138 grants totaling $5,635,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 94 and 147 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Herndon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (42%), Arts & Culture (15%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are Herndon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: VMI Foundation ($5.8M), University of Richmond ($3.5M), Jsargeant Reynolds Community College Educational Foundation Inc ($1.7M).
- Does Herndon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Herndon Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Herndon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation, The Pauley Family Foundation.
- Where is Herndon Foundation based?
- Herndon Foundation is based in VA.
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