· Private foundation
Molly and Joseph Herman 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLOW BEND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION | $1,000 |
| ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE | $1,000 |
| TYNKERTOPIA | $1,000 |
| INTEGRATED FAMILY COURT | $1,000 |
| NORTHLAND HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CA | $1,000 |
| HERITAGE SQUARE TRUST | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY ARIZONA | $1,000 |
| FLAGSTAFF SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $1,000 |
| FLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES | $1,000 |
| THEATRIKOS THEATRE COMPANY | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
71 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 60 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- DPDREAM PROJECT INC7× · 2017–2023 · $80k · revenue +183%
- HSHOUSING SOLUTIONS OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC4× · 2020–2023 · $22k · revenue +136%
- NFNORTHLAND FAMILY HELP CENTER5× · 2017–2023 · $22k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- ACARMSTRONG COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOone grant, 2022 · $5k
- NANORTHERN ARIZONA INSTITUTE FOR COMMone grant, 2022 · $5k
- TOTHE OTHER ONES FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +44%
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.
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…
To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.
Our mission is to provide a progressive international education and advanced multilingual academics in a safe, diverse, and nurturing environment. our innovative and individualized approach to learning prepares highly motivated students…
Improving health, healing people.
Improving health, healing people.
Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.
The mission of the aclu foundation of arizona is to defend and preserve, through litigation and public education, individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the constitution and the laws of the united states and arizona.
To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health First Foundation-Northern Arizona and the most unlike its peers is A New Dawn. 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 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
113 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. 113 of the 199 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 DREAM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING SOLUTIONS OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHLAND FAMILY HELP CENTER ↗
- Who funds Victim Witness Services For Coconino County ↗
- Who funds FLAGSTAFF SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF COCONINO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FLAGSTAFF FESTIVAL OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FLAGSTAFF ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival ↗
- Who funds FLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Terra BIRDS ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Candelen Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE POORE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds AZULITA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Cancer Support Community Arizona ↗
- Who funds THEATRIKOS THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MINDFULNESS FIRST ↗
- Who funds NORTHLAND HOSPICE ↗
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: Arizona Community Foundation · Geofamily Foundation · Geile Charitable Foundation · United Way of Northern Arizona Inc · The Narbha Institute Inc · Health First Foundation-Northern Arizona · Flagstaff Arts Council Inc · Burton Family Foundation · Forest Highlands Foundation · Hartzell Family Foundation · Violet G Young Charitable Trust · APS Foundation 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 Molly and Joseph Herman 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
- Williams College — 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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