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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.

$582k
Granted FY2023
31
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

22
’20
22
’21
28
’22
19
’23
17
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2024.

Philanthropy$899kEducation$486kFood & Nutrition$420kAnimals$265kCivil Rights$213kHealth$101kArts & Culture$95kInternational$92kOther$0
02FY2023 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k17 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $142k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $415k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UBS Donor Advised Fund$200,000
MSPCA$65,000
Greater Boston PFLAG$50,000
Worcester Academy$50,000
QGLBTQ Legal Advocates GLAD$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
Call2Talk$10,000
Catholic Schools Foundation$10,000
Fay School$10,000
Esperanza Academy$10,000
Out Metrowest$7,200
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Small Cell Ovarian Cancer Foundatio: $500 → 8%Massachusetts Wonderfund Inc: $25k → 16%Mass211 Inc: $10k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST: $5k → 8%Home for Little Wanderers: $10k → 16%Brazilian American Center BRACE: $3k → 8%Brazilian-American Center BRACE: $3k → 8%Jewish Family Service of Metrowest: $510 → 8%Jewish Family Service of Metrowest: $500 → 8%Good Shepherd Community Care: $1k → 8%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

NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
KY
VA
MD
DE
DC
AL
FL
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 33 repeat orgs$589k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
41

Total granted

$1.8M
$205k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+17%

Still filing today

76%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $252k · revenue +49%
  • VU
    VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $125k · revenue +44%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $90k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $43k
  • MW
    MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -14%
  • CS
    CONNELLY SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
3
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
5
Wheaton College

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…

Education
6
The Boston Foundation for Sight Inc

Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.

Human Services
7
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
8
Boston Harbor Now Inc

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,…

Environment
9
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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10
Edward M Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Brighton Marine Inc

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.

Health
12
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc

We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 101 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
42/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Harvest for Hope Inc: $420,000 · OtherHarvest for Hope IncGreater Boston PFLAG: $211,110 · OtherGreater Boston PFLAGUBS Donor Advised Fund: $200,000 · OtherUBS Donor Advised FundIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGood Two Know Partners: $80,000 · OtherPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $63,180 · OtherDon Bosco Cristo Rey High: $60,000 · OtherNATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC: $55,143 · Other+60 more: $426,346 · Other+60 moreRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $600,000 · PhilanthropyRenaissance Charitable …+5 more: $17,498 · PhilanthropyVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $125,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNI…WORCESTER ACADEMY: $75,000 · EducationWORCESTER ACA…THE FAY SCHOOL INC: $45,005 · EducationTHE FAY SCHOO…CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $38,500 · EducationCATHOLIC SCHO…KIMBALL UNION ACADEMY: $20,000 · EducationKIMBALL UNION…BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL INC: $16,750 · EducationBETHANY HILL PLACE: $13,000 · EducationESPERANZA ACADEMY INC: $12,500 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $252,000 · AnimalsMASSACHUS…+5 more: $7,650 · AnimalsSave The Children Federation Inc: $90,000 · International+1 more: $1,080 · InternationalMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesMASS211 INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC: $6,010 · Human ServicesBRAZILIAN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $5,500 · Human Services+2 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesOUT METROWEST INC: $22,500 · Civil RightsCAIR-MA INC: $1,500 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $1,030 · Civil Rights
Other$1,615,779Philanthropy$617,498Education$347,755Animals$259,650International$91,080Human Services$58,010Civil Rights$25,030

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $600,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $252,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER ACADEMY: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $63,180 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC: $55,143 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRATTLESTICK PRODUCTIONS INC: $45,800 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE FAY SCHOOL INC: $45,005 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $38,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOUT METROWEST INC: $22,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetKIMBALL UNION ACADEMY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRAMINGHAM HISTORY CENTER INC: $18,250 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetBOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL INC: $16,750 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetGLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBETHANY HILL PLACE: $13,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetESPERANZA ACADEMY INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMETROWEST NONPROFIT NETWORK INC: $11,500 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetOPEN AVENUES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASS211 INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMuseum of African American History Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC: $6,010 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRAZILIAN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $5,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetA Place To Turn Inc: $5,256 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEAST COONHOUND RESCUE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRED BULL THEATER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,545 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAIR-MA INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE MASS INC: $1,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORKING FOR WORCESTER INC: $1,080 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $1,025 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $1,005 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSQUASHBUSTERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE ANN MUSEUM INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUARDIANS OF RESCUE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAVE A DOG INC: $950 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFramingham Country Club Charitable Organization Inc: $865 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetEDWARD M KENNEDY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLions Clubs International Foundation: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUSSIAN JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $512 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Cummings Foundation G…Middlesex Savings Cha…Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Community Foundation …The Sudbury FoundationMetrowest Health Foun…Avidia Charitable Fou…MutualOne Charitable …Highland Street Conne…Rockland Trust Charit…Analog Devices Founda…
Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA30.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Herrman Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Herrman Family Charitable 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 101 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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