· Private foundation
Hershberger Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of HERSHBERGER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MORNING STAR MENTAL HEALTH | $7,000 |
| NEW HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| RONALD MACDONALD HOUSE | $4,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB TAMPA BAY | $3,000 |
| CRU | $3,000 |
| BLACKHAWK EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH | $2,800 |
| MADISON AREA FOOD PANTRY GARDENS INC | $1,700 |
| IMPACT100 SRQ | $1,100 |
| INTERVARSITY | $1,000 |
| JC'S VILLAGE | $1,000 |
| PORCHLIGHT INC | $810 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY | $800 |
| SHELTER FROMTHE STORM MINISTRIES | $800 |
| CARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF DANE COUNTY | $800 |
| WAYFORWARD RESOURCES | $800 |
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 (FY18–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +28% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- BOBEACON OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL INC4× · 2019–2022 · $16k · revenue +28% · 35% of their budget
- MAMadison Area Food Pantry Gardens7× · 2018–2024 · $13k · revenue +133%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TAMPA BAY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +168%
Funded once
- CPCaris Pregnancy Counseling and Resourcesone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -1%
- CWCOMBAT WOUNDED VETERAN CHALLENGE INCone grant, 2022 · $2k
- GFGLOBAL FELLOWSHIP INCone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
Gmcc is an interfaith, multicultural nonprofit organization with a mission "uniting people of faith, serving people in need." we have a 117 year old history collaborating with communites to addressinequities and disparities throughout…
To provide food and clothing for the residents in madison, tennessee and surrounding davidson county residents that are in need. we also provide sack lunches to the homeless in the area.
Dane county parent council changes the lives of underserved children and families through education and supportive services.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
To develop community with the formerly homeless. to offer services to the formerly homeless regardless of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or religious affiliation. to share the love of god with all people we come into contact with.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
The partnership is committed to housing for everyone because it's essential for building healthy communities. we build effective public-private partnerships to expand access to affordable housing options. we do this by directly developing…
Sharing the gospel while providing hope and transformation.
Our mission is to reduce poverty, strengthen families and empower communities in the 30 most northeast counties of Iowa.
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Webb Lake Mens Club. 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 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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 42 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 BEACON OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Madison Area Food Pantry Gardens ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds OVERLAND MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Caris Pregnancy Counseling and Resources ↗
- Who funds CARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WEBB LAKE MENS CLUB ↗
- Who funds IMPACT 100 SRQ INC ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds COLLABORATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds PORCHLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER FROM THE STORM MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FLINTHILLS BREADBASKET INC ↗
- Who funds RECONCILING MINISTRIES NETWORK ↗
- Who funds WORKING CAPITAL FOR COMMUNITY NEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LINK ↗
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: Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · Veridian Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers 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 Hershberger Family Foundation Inc 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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