· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INNER CITY LAW CENTER | $30,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES | $25,000 |
| TILDEN STUDY CENTER | $25,000 |
| HOLY INNOCENTS CHURCH | $25,000 |
| MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| VETS HEALTHCARE POLICY | $20,000 |
| ST THERESE CARMELITE SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| THE PEOPLE CONCERN | $20,000 |
| ARCS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| VENICE FAMILY CLINIC | $20,000 |
| ART OF BRAIN UCLA NEURO-ONCOLOGY PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| THE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER | $20,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of The Ernest G Herman Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 0%.
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 +78% since the first grant, against -21% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CBCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $208k · revenue +322%
- LALOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2024 · $158k · revenue +315%
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles7× · 2018–2024 · $145k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $20k
MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTERone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -29%- DSDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
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…
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 70 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 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 VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE CONCERN ↗
- Who funds FOOD FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds BROTHERS HELPERS INC ↗
- Who funds Aster Study Center 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 Parkinson's Resource Organization Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ernest G Herman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ernest G Herman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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