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Herrig Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$44kReligion$28kYouth Development$21kHousing & Shelter$19kEducation$17kArts & Culture$15kHealth$11kPublic Benefit$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,002
Median grant
5
States reached
$540k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER DUBUQUE$10,000
DUBUQUE CITY YOUTH BALLET$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$4,242
NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH$3,279
ST COLUMBKILLE'S CHURCH$1,309
NO FOOT TOO SMALL$1,050
TASSAJARA MOUNTAIN ZEN CENTER$1,002
PROJECT ROOTED$1,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE$1,000
DUBUQUE HUMANE SOCIETY$1,000
TUNNELS TO TOWERS$622
GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE$250
CRESCENT COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $1k → 11%HILLCREST FAMILY SERVICES: $200 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

MN
IL
NY
OR
IA
CA
TN
OK
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$99k · 11 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
19

Total granted

$99k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+47%

Still filing today

64%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER DUBUQUE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +35%
  • NA
    NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue +22%
  • NF
    NO FOOT TOO SMALL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +128%

Funded once

  • DC
    Dubuque County Historical Society
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -25%
  • MM
    MERCY MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +47%
  • HF
    HOLY FAMILY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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.

1
Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau

The Dubuque Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will lead tourism destination promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque Area experience.

Community Improvement
2
The Dubuque Visiting Nurse Association

The visiting nurse association exists to promote and improve the health, wellness, and safety of individuals and communities through provision of comprehensive, home, and community based initiatives and services.

—
3
United Way of Dubuque Area Tri-States

To connect people and resources to advance the health, education, and income of those in need in our community.

Philanthropy
4
Medical Associates Foundation of Dubuque
—
5
Dubuque Mercy Health Foundation

We, mercy health services-iowa and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.dubuque mercy health foundation is a member of mercy health…

Health
6
Iowa Lutheran Hospital Auxiliary

To promote and advance activities beneficial to iowa lutheran hospital.

Health
7
Foundation for Dubuque Public Schools

Support student achievement by promoting investment in the Dubuque Public Schools.

Philanthropy
8
Dubuque Temple Association Inc
Arts & Culture
9
Iowa City Hospice Inc

To provide high-quality and compassionate care to community members approaching the end of life.

Human Services
10
Dubuque Food Pantry

Dispense food to needy in the dubuque area

—
11
Iowa River Hospice Inc

Provide hospice care and bereavement support services.

Human Services
12
St Luke's Health Care Foundation

To support st. luke's hospital as the premier resource for improving the health of eastern iowans.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque; the most unlike its peers is Project Rooted Inc. 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

20 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. 20 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST COLUMBKILLE'S CHURCH: $26,909 · OtherST COLUMBKILLE'S CHURCHNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC: $18,811 · OtherNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INCUNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $13,752 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF IOWADUBUQUE CITY YOUTH BALLET INC: $5,000 · OtherDUBUQUE CITY YOUTH BALLET INC+21 more: $12,737 · Other+21 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE: $44,010 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREAT…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER DUBUQUE: $20,506 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRL…+1 more: $100 · Youth DevelopmentDubuque County Historical Society: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFINLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $5,200 · HealthMERCY MEDICAL CENTER: $2,000 · Health+3 more: $300 · HealthNO FOOT TOO SMALL: $5,900 · Public BenefitPROJECT ROOTED INC: $3,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$77,209Philanthropy$44,010Youth Development$20,606Arts & Culture$10,000Health$7,500Public Benefit$5,900Food & Nutrition$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE: $44,010 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER DUBUQUE: $20,506 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC: $18,811 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDubuque County Historical Society: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNO FOOT TOO SMALL: $5,900 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFINLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $5,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT ROOTED INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMERCY MEDICAL CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUBUQUE REGIONAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $727 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAQUINAS COMMUNICATIONS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHillcrest Family Services Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUBUQUE COUNTY RIGHT TO LIFE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF DUBUQUE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLS AND DALES CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUBUQUE DREAM CENTER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

James B & Melita a Mc…Heartland Charitable …Alliant Energy Founda…The Butler Family Fou…Community Foundation …Spahn & Rose Lumber C…Flynn Family Foundati…Sirk Family FoundationMathis Pfohl Foundati…Ay McDonald Charitabl…Dupaco RW Hoefer Foun…Dubuque Racing Associ…
James B & Melita a McDonough FoundationIA34.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Heartland Charitable Trust · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Butler Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn · Flynn Family Foundation · Sirk Family Foundation · Mathis Pfohl Foundation · Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • New Avenues for Youth Inc: 20% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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