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The Herget 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.

$298k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Education$359kHealth$116kArts & Culture$52kAnimals$48kRecreation & Sports$43kEnvironment$25kYouth Development$20kHuman Services$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k32 grants · $123k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $175k
$5,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$25,000
NORTHEAST GEORGIA HEALTH SYSTEM INC$25,000
SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC$25,000
SOUTH COASTAL DELAWARE DOG PARK$20,000
STEVENSON UNIVERSITY INC$20,000
UDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC$20,000
HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY$20,000
OPERATION 2ND CHANCES FOR HUMANITY$10,000
NASHVILLE DOLPHINS$10,000
UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE$6,089
SPECIAL NEEDS SCHOOL OF GWINNETT$5,000
CRISTO REY CHARLESTON HIGH SCHOOL INC$5,000
THE KATHRYN FOX SAMWAY FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S CANCER RESEARCH$5,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
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 (FY19–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 10%CANINE ASSISTANTS: $1k → 13%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $1k → 19%SHARIAS CLOSET: $4k → 11%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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
FL

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.

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$491k · 29 repeat orgs$310k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
31

Total granted

$491k
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+22%

Still filing today

52%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k 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
EducationPhilanthropyAnimalsHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • SF
    SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +9%
  • SU
    STEVENSON UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2019–2024 · $75k · revenue +29%
  • HP
    HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • CC
    CLEVELAND CLINIC INDIAN RIVER
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • SE
    SAINT EDWARD'S SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +20%
  • UF
    UMM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $10k

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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

2
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
3
St Marys Hospital for Children Inc

St. mary's hospital for children ("smh"), the flagship of st. mary's healthcare system for children, is committed to improving the health and quality of life for children and young adults with special healthcare needs. a nationally…

Health
4
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc

St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…

Health
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
7
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

8
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

9
Shands Jacksonville Healthcare Inc

As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…

Health
10
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
11
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
12
Musc Strategic Ventures

To promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Believe in Tomorrow National Children's Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hudson Family Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-8 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionCommunity Health CentersCancer Support OrganizationsFood Pantries & AssistanceUnited Way FederationsVeteran Support ServicesVolunteer Fire DepartmentsHospice Care ServicesPublic University Foundatio…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts OrganizationsLand Conservation Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%6%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%29%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,511

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.

04the grantee network

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 89 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
29/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC — $75,000 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INCMARYVALE PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $48,500 · OtherMARYVALE PREPARATORY SCHOOLLOYOLA UNIVERSITY — $30,000 · OtherLOYOLA UNIVERSITYUDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC — $30,000 · OtherUDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INCCLEVELAND CLINIC INDIAN RIVER — $25,000 · OtherST JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $24,000 · OtherNOTRE DAME OF MD — $20,000 · Other+54 more — $211,000 · Other+54 moreSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY — $75,000 · EducationSTEVENSON UNIVERSITYHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY — $40,000 · EducationHIGH POINT UNIVERSITYSAINT EDWARD'S SCHOOL INC — $25,000 · EducationSAINT EDWARD'S SCHOOL …NOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY INC — $10,000 · EducationNOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND…MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 · Education+2 more — $7,500 · EducationSouth Coastal Delaware Dog Park Foundation — $20,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC — $20,000 · AnimalsWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY — $6,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF VERO BEACH AND INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC — $5,000 · AnimalsBRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA — $2,500 · AnimalsNORTHEAST GEORGIA HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $25,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $6,800 · HealthBelieve Big Inc — $5,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $5,000 · HealthBELIEVE IN TOMORROW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $3,500 · HealthUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $6,089 · PhilanthropyQUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CHANNINGS JOY FOUNDATION INC — $4,089 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $2,500 · PhilanthropyHUDSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · PhilanthropyTHE ALABAMA MARINES FOUNDATION — $1,000 · PhilanthropyDOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS — $16,000 · Recreation & SportsSOPHIE AND MADIGANS PLAYGROUND INC — $2,000 · Recreation & SportsVERO BEACH THEATRE GUILD INC — $16,000 · Arts & CultureVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC — $750 · Arts & Culture
Other$488,500Education$163,500Animals$53,500Health$45,300Philanthropy$21,178Recreation & Sports$18,000Arts & Culture$16,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC — $75,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY — $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEAST GEORGIA HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT EDWARD'S SCHOOL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Coastal Delaware Dog Park Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS — $16,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetVERO BEACH THEATRE GUILD INC — $16,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetNOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMT AIRY NET INC — $7,100 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $6,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $6,089 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MOUNT AIRY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF VERO BEACH AND INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBelieve Big Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCRISTO REY CHARLESTON HIGH SCHOOL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Needs Schools of Gwinnett Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHANNINGS JOY FOUNDATION INC — $4,089 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSharias Closet — $4,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBELIEVE IN TOMORROW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGWINNETT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGEORGIA GWINNETT COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERIOR DESIGNERS FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOPHIE AND MADIGANS PLAYGROUND INC — $2,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ST LUCIE INDIAN RIVER AND OKEECHOBEE COUNTIES I — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NORTHSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALABAMA MARINES FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEPILEPSY FLORIDA INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE ASSISTANTS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStella Maris Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC — $750 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD18.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · The Thomas F & Clementine L Mullan Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Johns Hopkins Hospital · Mangione Family Foundation Inc · The Kahle Foundation Inc · Archie S Wingfield Jr Charitable Trust U/A/D 5/15/1995 · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund

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 Herget 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 130%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • Food Bank of Delaware Inc26% of income from government
  • Notre Dame of Maryland University Inc9% of income from government
  • Epilepsy Florida Inc8% of income from government
  • Stevenson University6% of income from government
  • National Aquarium Inc1% of income from government
  • Vero Beach Theatre Guild Inc0% of income from government
  • Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get 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 · 0–75%
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.

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 89 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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