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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.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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, $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.
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.
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.
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.
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- CBCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $208k · revenue +322%
- LALOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2024 · $158k · revenue +205%
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles7× · 2018–2024 · $145k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $20k
- LALOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORKone grant, 2020 · $20k
- ECEARLY CHILDHOOD PARENTING CENTER - ST JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
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…
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.
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
The mission of laguna beach community clinic (lbcc) is to provide excellent medical care regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
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…
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…
Intervening to protect and treat all victims of violence
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…
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 field is 25% 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 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 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.
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.
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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