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Herrman Family 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
64% of Herrman Family Charitable Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 17 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Herrman Family Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 19 organizations, $582k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k17 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $142k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $415k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UBS Donor Advised Fund | $200,000 |
| MSPCA | $65,000 |
| QGLBTQ Legal Advocates GLAD | $50,000 |
| Greater Boston PFLAG | $50,000 |
| Worcester Academy | $50,000 |
| Nativity School of Worcester | $27,143 |
| Good Two Know Partners | $25,000 |
| Kennedy Health Center | $21,917 |
| Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute | $15,000 |
| Pan Mass Challenge | $13,077 |
| Fay School | $10,000 |
| Catholic Schools Foundation | $10,000 |
| Esperanza Academy | $10,000 |
| Call2Talk | $10,000 |
| Out Metrowest | $7,200 |
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 (FY20–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 60% 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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2023, 14 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k 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
MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS4× · 2021–2024 · $252k · revenue +49%- VUVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2021 · $125k · revenue +44%
Save The Children Federation Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $90k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $43k
- MWMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -14%
- CSCONNELLY SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILDone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
The edward m. kennedy institute for the united states senate is dedicated to educating the public about the important role of the united states senate in our system of government, encouraging participatory democracy, invigorating civil…
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc and the most unlike its peers is Small Cell Ovarian Cancer Foundation Inc. 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 29 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 101 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 Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Harvest for Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds RATTLESTICK PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC ↗
- Who funds OUT METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds KIMBALL UNION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FRAMINGHAM HISTORY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BETHANY HILL PLACE ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds METROWEST NONPROFIT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN AVENUES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds MASS211 INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of African American History 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: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · The Sudbury Foundation · Metrowest Health Foundation Inc · Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · MutualOne Charitable Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Analog Devices 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 Herrman Family Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- MASS211 Inc — 79% of income from government
- Museum of African American History Inc — 43% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Cape Ann Museum Inc — 38% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- United Way of Tri County Inc — 18% of income from government
- Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated — 16% of income from government
- Hospice of the Good Shepherd Inc — 13% of income from government
- Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc — 11% of income from government
- Edward M Kennedy Community Health Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Out Metrowest Inc — 9% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Boston Book Festival Inc — 2% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hopkinton Center for the Arts — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% 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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