· Private foundation
Skip & Meg Herman 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOODMAN THEATRE | $10,000 |
| NOURISHING HOPE | $10,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MONTANA LAND RELIANCE | $10,000 |
| THE SHANE CENTER | $5,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER RESEARCH ALLIANCE | $2,500 |
| BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - INNOVATION 80 | $2,500 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN RIVERS | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- APAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $110k · revenue +167%
- NHNOURISHING HOPE7× · 2019–2025 · $110k · revenue +210%
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO4× · 2022–2025 · $90k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- NPNW PRITZKR SCHOOL OF LAWone grant, 2019 · $50k
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +44%- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +75%
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.
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.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 62 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds AMY KROUSE ROSENTHAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SWEET GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MALOTO INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds ABERCROMBIE & KENT PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Red Door Animal Shelter ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Skip & Meg Herman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Skip & Meg Herman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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