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Herrick Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $433k
- $50k–250k22 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+9 grants · $6.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MANY HANDS LIFESHARING COMMUNITY | $1,555,500 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIG | $1,000,000 |
| INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $1,000,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN VILLAGES OF MICHIGAN F | $750,000 |
| LITTLE TRAVERSE CONSERVANCY | $500,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $500,000 |
| HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM | $500,000 |
| INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK OF W | $250,000 |
| HURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVE | $250,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MONROE INC | $200,000 |
| MICHIGAN COMMUNITY CAPITAL | $200,000 |
| MICHIGAN COALITION TO END DOMESTIC | $150,000 |
| GROWING HOPE | $150,000 |
| THE CORNER HEALTH CENTER | $125,000 |
| MANY HANDS LIFESHARING COMMUNITY | $115,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $3.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Herrick Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.1M 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
- UOUniversity of Michigan5× · 2020–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +139% · 76% of their budget
- HFHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM6× · 2020–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +48%
- GLGreat Lakes Center for the Arts5× · 2020–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +53%
Funded once
- MCMI COALITION TO END DOMESTIC AND SEone grant, 2020 · $1.1M
- MCMACKINAC CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +64%
- MNMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $440k · revenue -48%
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.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
Creating healthy communities - together
The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.
Through internal expertise, external partnerships, and advocacy, the area agency on aging of western michigan provides older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers equitable access to services that promote independence and…
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ozone House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kinetic Research Corporation. 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 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
101 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. 101 of the 151 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 INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Many Hands Lifesharing Community ↗
- Who funds Packard Health Inc ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds UMRC-PORTER HILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Stewardship Network ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Presbyterian Villages of Michigan ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WASHTENAW HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds OZONE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Old Pueblo Community Services ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds THE MICHIGAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN COALITION TO END DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds GROWING HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LENAWEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Riverside Arts Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds LACASA ↗
- Who funds STEM FLIGHTS ↗
- Who funds LEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Arbor Hospice Inc ↗
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 Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · United Way of Washtenaw County · James a and Faith Knight Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Duffy Foundation · The Buhr Foundation · The Martin Family Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
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 Herrick 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.
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
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.
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