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The Herche Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Herche Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$1.8MEmployment$1.8MHealth$1.7MCommunity Improvement$750kPhilanthropy$500kPublic Benefit$400kArts & Culture$200kRecreation & Sports$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.7M
$625,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$10.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE$1,000,000
CINCINNATI WORKS$650,000
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION$625,000
CONSERVATIVE PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE$400,000
SPCA$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $200k → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%CINCINNATI WORKS: $650k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $600k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $500k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $25k → 16%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER CINCINNATI-NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.9M · 6 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +116% since the first grant, against +62% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
14

Total granted

$5.9M
$996k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+116%
+62%

Still filing today

100%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $425k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CW
    CINCINNATI WORKS
    4× · 2018–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +19%
  • AF
    AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +116%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2019 · $500k
  • PV
    PROJECT VERITAS
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +158%
  • PC
    PRIVATE CITIZENgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +62%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation

To aid the alliance for clinical trials in oncology national clinical trials cooperative group and support the clinical trials and laboratory research of the alliance, as well as efforts to educate the medical community on methods of…

Health
2
Columbus Community Clinical Oncology Program

Our mission is to deliver state-of-the-art cancer care to patients in their communities through clinical trials. this allows individuals to remain in their won neighborhoods, while receiving the latest and best in cancer screenings,…

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3
Partnership for Cures

Cures Within Reach leverages the speed, safety and cost-effectiveness of testing approved therapies for new indications/diseases without effective treatment driving more treatments quicker to more patients.

Health
4
Association of Clinical Research Professionals

Acrp promotes excellence in clinical research. we support clinical research professionals through training and development, the exchange of ideas and expertise, and certification. we serve as the preferred source for quality tools,…

Health
5
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.

Health
6
Assoc of Amer Cancer Instit

Aaci represents 100 premier academic and freestanding cancer centers in the united states and canada. aaci is accelerating progress against cancer by enhancing the impact of academic cancer centers and promoting cancer health equity.

Health
7
Cancer Research Institute Inc

See schedule ocri is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing cancer immunotherapy through scientific discovery and global collaboration. since 1953, cri has funded research that deepens understanding of the immune system and its…

Health
8
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
9
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health
10
The Commons Project Foundation

The Commons Project Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit charitable organization established to build and operate digital services for the common good. Our mission is to empower individuals with access and control of their data, beginning…

Health
11
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
12
Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation

To fulfill its corporate goals as a non-profit research and development organization that applies scientific principles to: (a) test theories and ultimately develop methodologies and resources to support innovative health care services;…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is America First Policy Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Art of the Piano. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $1,700,000 · EducationAMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE I…Conservative Partnership Institute: $400,000 · EducationConservative Partnership Institu…CINCINNATI WORKS: $1,775,000 · Human ServicesCINCINNATI WORKSHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HE…+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $1,349,750 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSITY OF CI…UNITED WAY: $500,000 · OtherUNITED WAYPROJECT VERITAS: $100,000 · OtherPROJECT VERIT…PRIVATE CITIZEN: $100,000 · OtherPRIVATE CITIZ…UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION-UCATS: $74,775 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF…+7 more: $116,000 · Other+7 moreCINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $750,000 · Community ImprovementCINCINNATI …ART OF THE PIANO: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTeam First Foundation: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 · Health
Education$2,100,000Human Services$2,035,000Philanthropy$1,349,750Other$890,775Community Improvement$750,000Arts & Culture$100,000Recreation & Sports$100,000Health$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCINCINNATI WORKS: $1,775,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetAMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $1,700,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $1,349,750 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $750,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetConservative Partnership Institute: $400,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetPRIVATE CITIZEN: $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTeam First Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetINTEGRATIVE MEDICINE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - GREATER CINCINNATI/NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
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.

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.

The Greater Cincinnat…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Herche Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Herche Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Herche Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Herche Family Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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