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The Ernest G 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.

$600k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$1.4MHuman Services$510kCivil Rights$500kReligion$400kFood & Nutrition$383kEducation$260kHousing & Shelter$260kYouth Development$255kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INNER CITY LAW CENTER$30,000
CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION$25,000
MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY$25,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$25,000
HOLY INNOCENTS CHURCH$25,000
TILDEN STUDY CENTER$25,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$20,000
HOLY INNOCENTS BETTERMENT$20,000
ARCS FOUNDATION$20,000
ST THERESE CARMELITE SCHOOL$20,000
BEYOND BLINDNESS$20,000
THE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER$20,000
VETS HEALTHCARE POLICY$20,000
ART OF BRAIN UCLA NEURO-ONCOLOGY PROGRAM$20,000
FOOD FORWARD$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $315k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%REECE'S RAINBOW: $10k → 7%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $40k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $20k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $20k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $20k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $20k → 14%VALLEY FAMILY CENTER: $5k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND STREET: $15k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND STREET: $10k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND: $5k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $30k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $20k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $20k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $20k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $20k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $20k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $5k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 100% of The Ernest G Herman Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Ernest G Herman Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.0M · 46 repeat orgs$280k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.

46 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
21

Total granted

$4.0M
$260k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
-21%

Still filing today

57%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • CB
    CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $208k · revenue +322%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK
    8× · 2017–2024 · $158k · revenue +205%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    7× · 2018–2024 · $145k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • EC
    EARLY CHILDHOOD PARENTING CENTER - ST JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles

To provide convenient and affordable access to a comprehensive range of quality reproductive health care and sexual health information through patient services, education, and advocacy.

Health
3
Trauma Informed La
Civil Rights
4
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…

Crime & Legal
5
Interval House

The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…

Human Services
6
South Central Los Angeles Regional Center for Dev Disabled Persons Inc

South central los angeles regional center, (sclarc), believes special needs deserve special attention. we are committed to the provision of culturally sensitive services which enhance the inherent strengths of the family and enable…

Human Services
7
Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service

The roots of the los angeles didi hirsch psychiatric service dba didi hirsch mental health services ("dhmhs") extend back to the 1930s, when a group of women funded psychiatric care for people whose lives were devastated by the depression.…

Health
8
Laguna Beach Community Clinic

The mission of laguna beach community clinic (lbcc) is to provide excellent medical care regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
9
Alzheimers Greater Los Angeles

Alzheimers Greater Los Angeles mission is to improve the lives of local families affected by Alzheimers & other dementias by increasing awareness, delivering effective programs & services, providing compassionate support, advocating for…

Health
10
League of Women Voters of Los Angeles

The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and…

11
Vip Community Mental Health Center Inc

Intervening to protect and treat all victims of violence

Health
12
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute. 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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr17%33%20–35yr10%15%35–55yr12%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%5%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr17%16%20–35yr10%25%35–55yr12%38%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
16%
7,867/49,780

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.

05the grantee network

35 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 70 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
26/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOLY INNOCENTS CHURCH — $215,000 · OtherHOLY INNOCENTS CHURCHCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION — $207,500 · OtherCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATIONARCS FOUNDATION — $190,000 · OtherARCS FOUNDATIONMISSIONARIES OF CHARITY — $165,000 · OtherMISSIONARIES OF CHARITYLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $157,500 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANKOPCC - THE PEOPLE CONCERN — $135,000 · OtherTILDEN STUDY CENTER — $130,000 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY — $125,000 · OtherACLU FOUNDATION — $105,000 · OtherST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH — $100,000 · OtherCHILDRENS BUREAU — $100,000 · OtherART OF BRAIN UCLA NEURO-ONCOLOGY PROGRAM — $100,000 · Other+37 more — $1,150,000 · Other+37 moreChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $145,000 · HealthChildren's Ho…EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGEL — $130,150 · HealthEPILEPSY FOUN…VENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $120,000 · HealthVENICE FAMILY…CLAREMATRIX — $75,000 · HealthCLAREMATRIXNAMI URBAN LOS ANGELES — $30,000 · HealthNAMI URBAN LO…BREAKTHROUGH T1D — $25,000 · Health+1 more — $10,000 · HealthJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES — $135,000 · Human ServicesTHE PEOPLE CONCERN — $120,000 · Human ServicesSTEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC — $35,000 · Human Services+3 more — $25,000 · Human ServicesFOOD FORWARD INC — $120,000 · Food & NutritionBROTHERS HELPERS INC — $105,000 · Food & NutritionSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $105,000 · Crime & LegalInner City Law Center — $105,000 · Crime & LegalAster Study Center Inc — $105,000 · Youth DevelopmentHAROLD ROBINSON FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentUCLA FOUNDATION — $70,000 · EducationParkinson's Resource Organization Inc — $30,000 · Education
Other$2,880,000Health$535,150Human Services$315,000Food & Nutrition$225,000Crime & Legal$210,000Youth Development$120,000Education$100,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION — $207,500 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $157,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $145,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES — $135,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGEL — $130,150 over 7y, 10% of budgetTILDEN STUDY CENTER — $130,000 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC — $120,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $120,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PEOPLE CONCERN — $120,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAster Study Center Inc — $105,000 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetBROTHERS HELPERS INC — $105,000 over 8y, 33% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $105,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInner City Law Center — $105,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES MISSION INC — $95,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWomen Against Gun Violence — $80,000 over 7y, 7.4% of budgetBEYOND BLINDNESS — $80,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCLAREMATRIX — $75,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLOCKSHOP — $35,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetSTEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI URBAN LOS ANGELES — $30,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTHE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER — $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetParkinson's Resource Organization Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrave Trails — $25,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAROLD ROBINSON FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPasadena Community Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetValley Family Center — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVeterans Healthcare Policy Institute — $5,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budget
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 CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES
  • Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGEL
  • Who funds TILDEN STUDY CENTER
  • Who funds FOOD FORWARD INC
  • Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC
  • Who funds THE PEOPLE CONCERN
  • Who funds Aster Study Center Inc
  • Who funds BROTHERS HELPERS INC
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
  • Who funds Inner City Law Center
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC
  • Who funds Women Against Gun Violence
  • Who funds BEYOND BLINDNESS
  • Who funds CLAREMATRIX
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CLOCKSHOP
  • Who funds STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC
  • Who funds NAMI URBAN LOS ANGELES
  • Who funds THE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER

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.

The Ralph M Parsons FoundationCA19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Weingart Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · Stern Sidney Memorial Tuw · The Rose Hills Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 The Ernest G 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Ernest G Herman Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Ernest G Herman 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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