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Herrick Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
88
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Health$12MArts & Culture$8.6MEducation$4.7MHousing & Shelter$4.6MEnvironment$3.7MHuman Services$3.1MFood & Nutrition$2.8MPublic Benefit$1.7MOther$0
02FY2025 · 88 grants

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
$16,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$177M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 9%GRANTMAKERS IN AGING: $50k → 9%BLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS INC: $10k → 5%CEDAR POST INC: $8k → 14%GAP MINISTRIES: $50k → 15%BLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS: $250 → 5%WESTERN WASHTENAW AREA VALUE EXPRES: $20k → 14%WESTERN WASHTENAW AREA VALUE EXPRES: $250 → 14%ANSWERS FOR LIFE PREGNANCY CENTER: $20k → 15%OZONE HOUSE INC: $500k → 14%BLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS: $51k → 5%COMMUNITY SHARING: $25k → 8%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $50k → 15%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN INC: $25k → 8%PRESBYTERIAN VILLAGES OF MICHIGAN F: $750k → 8%PRESBYTERIAN VILLAGES OF MICHIGAN F: $25k → 8%FRIENDSHIP CENTERS OF EMMET COUNTY: $25k → 9%PRESBYTERIAN VILLAGES OF MICHIGAN F: $5k → 8%ENNIS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $100k → 21%PRESBYTERIAN VILLAGES OF MICHIGAN F: $250 → 8%CHILDREN'S LITERACY NETWORK: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S LITERACY NETWORK: $10k → 14%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT INC: $10k → 14%ARBOR HOSPICE: $175k → 14%ARBOR HOSPICE: $75k → 14%MANY HANDS LIFESHARING COMMUNITY: $1.6M → 14%MANY HANDS LIFESHARING COMMUNITY: $115k → 14%MANY HANDS LIFESHARING COMMUNITY: $50k → 14%MANY HANDS LIFESHARING COMMUNITY: $50k → 14%HOME GROWN COMMUNITY: $25k → 14%MANY HANDS LIFESHARING COMMUNITY: $16k → 14%MANY HANDS LIFESHARING COMMUNITY: $10k → 14%MANY HANDS LIFESHARING COMMUNITY: $10k → 14%OZONE HOUSE INC: $10k → 14%MANY HANDS LIFESHARING COMMUNITY: $8k → 14%MANY HANDS LIFESHARING COMMUNITY: $8k → 14%MANY HANDS LIFESHARING COMMUNITY: $8k → 14%MANY HANDS LIFESHARING COMMUNITY: $250 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
VA
AZ
DC

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.

04

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.

Herrick Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$33M · 46 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
67

Total granted

$33M
$7.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+17%

Still filing today

80%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther

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

  • UO
    University of Michigan
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +139% · 76% of their budget
  • HF
    HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +48%
  • GL
    Great Lakes Center for the Arts
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • MC
    MI COALITION TO END DOMESTIC AND SE
    one grant, 2020 · $1.1M
  • MC
    MACKINAC CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +64%
  • MN
    MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION
    one 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.

04Your field

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.

1
Business Leaders for Michigan

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.…

2
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

3
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

4
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

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.…

Community Improvement
5
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

6
Land Conservancy of West 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…

Environment
7
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
8
Mymichigan Medical Group

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
9
Michigan Science Center

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.

Education
10
Area Agency On Aging of Western Michigan Inc

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…

Human Services
11
Lincoln Behavioral Services

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…

Health
12
Great Lakes Community Action Partnership

The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.

Human Services

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts Performance …Southeast Michigan Communit…Adult Residential Care Serv…Michigan Civic & Economic D…Christian Evangelical Minis…Policy Research and AdvocacyFamily Philanthropic Founda…Independent K-12 SchoolsTrade Union OrganizationsTucson Community Organizati…Detroit Community Developme…Health Systems and Foundati…Senior Healthcare Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%34%35–55yr14%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%6%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr14%36%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/108
the rest of the field
15%
4,265/28,179

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.

05the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/101
Grantees still filing
65/101
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of Michigan — $4,200,000 · OtherUniversity of MichiganTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $2,000,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYMI COALITION TO END DOMESTIC AND SE — $1,075,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $1,000,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $1,000,000 · OtherMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUND — $980,000 · OtherMACKINAC CENTER — $1,000,000 · Other+88 more — $10,409,543 · Other+88 moreINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $4,950,000 · Arts & CultureINTERLOCHEN CENTER F…Great Lakes Center for the Arts — $2,575,000 · Arts & CultureGreat Lakes Center f…Riverside Arts Center Foundation Inc — $310,250 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $450,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM — $3,000,000 · HealthHENRY FORD HEAL…Packard Health Inc — $1,550,000 · HealthPackard Health …UMRC-PORTER HILLS FOUNDATION — $1,150,000 · HealthUMRC-PORTER HIL…MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION — $440,000 · HealthMCLAREN NORTHER…+6 more — $145,750 · HealthMany Hands Lifesharing Community — $1,855,750 · Human ServicesMany Hand…Presbyterian Villages of Michigan — $780,250 · Human ServicesPresbyter…OZONE HOUSE INC — $510,000 · Human ServicesOZONE HOU…Arbor Hospice Inc — $250,000 · Human ServicesArbor Hos…+14 more — $488,600 · Human Services+14 moreASHLAND UNIVERSITY — $825,000 · EducationAIM HIGH SCHOOL — $715,410 · EducationSTEM FLIGHTS — $266,100 · EducationTHE WINGS CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · EducationTHE GLOUCESTER INSTITUTE INC — $200,000 · EducationLAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY — $170,500 · EducationTHE NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $150,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $100,000 · EducationConservative Partnership Institute — $100,000 · Education+5 more — $178,878 · EducationThe Stewardship Network — $925,000 · EnvironmentLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc — $515,000 · EnvironmentHURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVE — $300,000 · EnvironmentLEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY — $250,250 · EnvironmentGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $1,500,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more — $35,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$21,664,543Arts & Culture$8,285,250Health$6,285,750Human Services$3,884,600Education$2,905,888Environment$1,990,250Food & Nutrition$1,535,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $4,950,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $4,200,000 over 5y, 76% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM — $3,000,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGreat Lakes Center for the Arts — $2,575,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $2,000,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMany Hands Lifesharing Community — $1,855,750 over 3y, 68% of budgetPackard Health Inc — $1,550,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $1,500,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetUMRC-PORTER HILLS FOUNDATION — $1,150,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER — $1,000,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetThe Stewardship Network — $925,000 over 4y, 42% of budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY — $825,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAIM HIGH SCHOOL — $715,410 over 6y, 8.4% of budgetWASHTENAW HOUSING ALLIANCE — $600,000 over 4y, 88% of budgetLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc — $515,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOZONE HOUSE INC — $510,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetOld Pueblo Community Services — $510,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR MICHIGAN — $500,001 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetTHE MICHIGAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetMICHIGAN COALITION TO END DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE — $450,250 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetGROWING HOPE INC — $441,250 over 5y, 14% of budgetMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION — $440,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetLENAWEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $435,550 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetHOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $350,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetRiverside Arts Center Foundation Inc — $310,250 over 3y, 32% of budgetHURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVE — $300,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLACASA — $300,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetSTEM FLIGHTS — $266,100 over 5y, 50% of budgetLEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY — $250,250 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetArbor Hospice Inc — $250,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Monroe Inc — $210,250 over 2y, 17% of budgetSOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK — $200,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE WINGS CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetAnn Arbor Art Association — $175,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetLENAWEE YOUTH CENTER INC — $175,000 over 1y, 83% of budgetLAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY — $170,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKINETIC RESEARCH CORPORATION — $121,041 over 2y, 16% of budgetYPSILANTI MEALS ON WHEELS — $115,250 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENNIS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHAVEN FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetConservative Partnership Institute — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDISCOVERY CENTER GREAT LAKES — $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetFOOD GATHERERS — $90,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAnn Arbor Symphony Orchestra Inc — $75,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI61.6× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Northeastern University7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Herrick Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Herrick Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 151 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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