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Joe Herring Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $121k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $380k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ILLUMINATIONS | $200,000 |
| THE SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY FOUN | $100,000 |
| R2M-REDEEMED TO MULTIPLY | $80,000 |
| REAL CHAMPIONS INC | $25,000 |
| SHEPHERDS CARE MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| EQUINOX GLOBAL MISSIONS AND EDUCATI | $20,000 |
| EQUINOX GLOBAL MISSIONS AND EDUCATI | $20,000 |
| TELFAIR MUSEUMS | $16,000 |
| TELFAIR MUSEUM | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of your 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.
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 +81% since the first grant, against +72% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $345k 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
- SCSAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue ×397
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE7× · 2017–2024 · $183k · revenue +10%
- TMTELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC8× · 2018–2025 · $129k · revenue +47%
Funded once
PRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +16%- HCHOPE COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $50k
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF NEW ROADSone grant, 2021 · $50k
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 mission of south carolina humanities council, inc. is to enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of south carolinians. the organization seeks to increase public understanding of and support for the humanities by telling the human…
The organization's primary mission is a grassroots initiative that advances sustainable development of natural, cultural and historic resources for enhanced quality of life and economic revitalization of communities in south carolina.
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
To make hope, healing and well-being accessible to every person as an expression of God's love.
To make hope, healing and well-being accessible to every person as an expression of God's love.
The union mission seeks to be a leader in gospel transforming ministry in hampton roads, providing a pathway to success for our homeless guests. we act to restore the lives of homeless neighbors by caring like christ.
Hospice savannah, inc. provides our community the best services and resources on living with a life limiting illness, dying, death, grief and loss.
To provide food, shelter, and programs that transform lives.
To provide a faith based community where life will be rich and full as god intends it to be, holding to our values, serving one another with dedication and promoting health and wellness for all.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
The mission of the upper savannah land trust is to encourage and support conservation of natural and scenic lands, farms, forests, waterways, and open spaces on our eight-county area: abbeville, anderson, edgefield, greenwood, laurens,…
Our mission is to inspire conservation of the natural world by exhibiting and caring for animals, by excelling in education and research, and by providing an exceptional visitor experience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Coastal Empire and the most unlike its peers is Shepherds Care Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 39 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 ILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE ↗
- Who funds TELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH WILDLIFE RESCUE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REAL CHAMPIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EQUINOX GLOBAL MISSIONS AND EDUCATI ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN WILDLIFE EXPOSITION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW EBENEZER RETREAT & CONF CENTER ↗
- Who funds Georgia Historical Society ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS CARE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE USA ↗
- Who funds Folds of Honor Palmetto State Chapter ↗
- Who funds UNION MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds ANDEE'S ARMY ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES OF SAVANNAH INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Worship on the Water Inc ↗
- Who funds Forsyth Farmers Market 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: The Savannah Community Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Bradley Foundation Inc · The Littlejohn Family Foundation · The Dunn Foundation · John G Kennedy Foundation Inc · Colonial Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc
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 Joe Herring Family 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.
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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