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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.

$501k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$601kEducation$500kArts & Culture$239kPhilanthropy$183kHealth$100kAnimals$95kYouth Development$55kInternational$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $121k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $380k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ILLUMINATIONS$200,000
THE SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY FOUN$100,000
R2M-REDEEMED TO MULTIPLY$80,000
SHEPHERDS CARE MINISTRIES$25,000
REAL CHAMPIONS INC$25,000
EQUINOX GLOBAL MISSIONS AND EDUCATI$20,000
EQUINOX GLOBAL MISSIONS AND EDUCATI$20,000
TELFAIR MUSEUMS$16,000
TELFAIR MUSEUM$15,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $5k → 9%TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH: $10k → 16%SHEPHERDS CARE MINISTRIES: $25k → 10%FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $9k → 10%R2M-REDEEMED TO MULTIPLY: $80k → 12%HOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $50k → 17%NEW EBENEZER RETREAT & CONFERENCE CTR: $25k → 9%ANDEES ARMY: $5k → 13%SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY FDN INC: $100k → 16%ELEVATE USA: $10k → 7%PRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $75k → 11%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF NEW ROADS: $50k → 17%BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC: $5k → 10%R2M-REDEEM TO MULTIPLY: $20k → 12%REAL CHAMPIONS INC: $25k → 17%ILLUMINATIONS: $200k → 13%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $15k → 16%REAL CHAMPIONS INC: $20k → 17%SAVANNAH WILDLIFE RESCUE CENTER INC: $45k → 16%EQUINOX GLOBAL MISSIONS AND EDUCATI: $20k → 16%EQUINOX GLOBAL MISSIONS AND EDUCATI: $20k → 16%SAVANNAH WILDLIFE RESCUE CENTER INC: $20k → 16%THE SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY FOUN: $100k → 16%SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY FDN INC: $100k → 16%THE SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY FOUN: $100k → 16%THE SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY FOUN: $100k → 16%CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL: $60k → 16%CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL: $60k → 16%UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE: $60k → 16%CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL: $50k → 16%CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL: $35k → 16%TELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC: $30k → 16%UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE INC: $25k → 16%GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $20k → 16%TELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC: $20k → 16%TELFAIR MUSEUM: $19k → 16%TELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC: $18k → 16%TELFAIR MUSEUMS: $16k → 16%TELFAIR MUSEUM: $15k → 16%CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL: $15k → 16%TELFAIR MUSEUMS: $15k → 16%UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE: $13k → 16%TELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC: $13k → 16%TELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC: $8k → 16%UNION MISSION INC: $8k → 16%TELFAIR MUSEUMS: $5k → 16%GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5k → 16%CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL: $5k → 16%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.
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 12 repeat orgs$690k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +72% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
23

Total granted

$1.3M
$345k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+72%

Still filing today

67%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $345k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionReligionArts & CultureOther
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

  • SC
    SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue ×397
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $183k · revenue +10%
  • TM
    TELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $129k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • PRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +16%
  • HC
    HOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • FB
    FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF NEW ROADS
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
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
South Carolina Humanities Council Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
2
South Carolina National Heritage Corridor

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Unc Health Foundation Inc

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.

Education
4
Baptist Health System Inc

To make hope, healing and well-being accessible to every person as an expression of God's love.

Health
5
Baptist Health System Foundation Inc

To make hope, healing and well-being accessible to every person as an expression of God's love.

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6
The Union Mission

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.

Human Services
7
Hospice Savannah Inc

Hospice savannah, inc. provides our community the best services and resources on living with a life limiting illness, dying, death, grief and loss.

Human Services
8
Atlanta Union Mission Corporation

To provide food, shelter, and programs that transform lives.

Human Services
9
South Carolina Episcopal Home at Still Hopes

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.

Health
10
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Upper Savannah Land Trust

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,…

Environment
12
South Carolina Aquarium

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.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Coastal Empire; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 39 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY FOUN: $300,000 · OtherTHE SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY FOUNCHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL: $225,000 · OtherCHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPALR2M-REDEEMED TO MULTIPLY: $80,000 · OtherR2M-REDEEMED TO MULTIPLYHOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $50,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF NEW ROADS: $50,000 · OtherTELFAIR MUSEUM: $37,400 · OtherEQUINOX GLOBAL MISSIONS AND EDUCATI: $40,000 · Other+19 more: $182,650 · Other+19 moreILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATI…UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE: $183,492 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE COAS…SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · EducationSAVANNAH CLA…ELEVATE USA: $10,000 · EducationFolds of Honor Palmetto State Chapter: $9,000 · EducationTELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC: $128,821 · Arts & CultureTELFAIR M…SAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC CORPORATION: $40,000 · Arts & CultureSAVANNAH …PRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $15,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 · HealthANDEE'S ARMY: $5,000 · HealthSAVANNAH WILDLIFE RESCUE CENTER INC: $65,000 · AnimalsREAL CHAMPIONS INC: $45,000 · Youth Development
Other$965,050Philanthropy$383,492Education$219,000Arts & Culture$168,821Health$100,000Animals$65,000Youth Development$45,000

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 budgetILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE: $183,492 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC: $128,821 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSAVANNAH WILDLIFE RESCUE CENTER INC: $65,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetREAL CHAMPIONS INC: $45,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC CORPORATION: $40,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetEQUINOX GLOBAL MISSIONS AND EDUCATI: $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN WILDLIFE EXPOSITION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGeorgia Historical Society: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEW EBENEZER RETREAT & CONF CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetSHEPHERDS CARE MINISTRIES: $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELEVATE USA: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFolds of Honor Palmetto State Chapter: $9,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetUNION MISSION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLUFFTON SELF HELP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANDEE'S ARMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED MINISTRIES OF SAVANNAH INC: $3,900 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFriends of Worship on the Water Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetForsyth Farmers Market Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

The Savannah Communit…Georgia Power Foundat…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Amg Charitable Gift F…Bradley Foundation IncThe Littlejohn Family…The Dunn FoundationJohn G Kennedy Founda…Colonial Foundation I…Truist Foundation IncPublix Super Markets …
The Savannah Community Foundation IncGA24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report 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, 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.
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    How do I get to Joe Herring Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Joe Herring Family 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 39 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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