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THE HERRNSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$2.5M
Granted FY2024
10
Grants
4
Communities
$2.2M
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
International$13MEducation$305kEnvironment$75kHealth$50kOther$790k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
—
2021
villagehealthcarehealth
2022
healthcarehealth
2023
healthcarehealth
2024
healthcarehealth
2025
healthcarehealth
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 10 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.2M
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$66M
Total assets
Largest grants
- PIVOT WORKS INC$2,245,466
- CONSERVATION LANDS FOUNDATION INC$75,000
- PARTNERS IN HEALTH$50,000
- CHILDREN AND SCREENS$50,000
- AUTISM NATURE TRAIL$25,000
- HARBOR COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$10,000
- FEDERATION OF TAMIL SANGAMS OF NORTH AMERICA$10,000
- LWALA COMMUNITY ALLIANCE$5,000
- LAST MILE HEALTH$5,000
- BRIDGE TO ENTER ADVANCED MATHEMATICS$2,500
02The need
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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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 7%. 79% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 76% of THE HERRNSTEIN FAMILY 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, 4% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 1% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
THE HERRNSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient addressRecipient 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.
97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$14M · 14 repeat orgs$425k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +209% since the first grant, against +204% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
14
9
Total granted
$14M
$338k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+209%
+204%
Still filing today
57%
22%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
InternationalHealthEducationEnvironmentOther
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
- PIPIVOTWORKS INC6× · 2018–2024 · $13M · revenue +127% · 45% of their budget
- SBSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2023 · $295k · revenue +7%
- FOFEDERATION OF TAMIL SANGAMS OF NORTH AMERICA2× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +366%
Funded once
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES NEW YORK METROgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +204%
- CACHILDREN AND SCREENTSone grant, 2021 · $50k
- KBKING BAUDOUIN FOUNDATION UNITED STATESone grant, 2023 · $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.
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MaineGeneral Health
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities.
Health
2
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic
Advancing health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships; providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.
Health
3
Arbor Research Collaborative for
To improve patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice.
Health
4
LincolnHealth Medical Partners Inc
The Corporation operates for the purpose of providing medical & health services, including primary & specialized care, through licensed physicians & other health professionals primarily in Lincoln County, Maine. Effective February 5, 2023…
Health
5
Hawaii Health Information Exchange
Hawai'i health information exchange is the state's designated entity for health data exchange. we provide the technology, technical expertise, and governance that enables health care providers and stakeholders to share and access complete…
Public Benefit
6
Regional West Health Services
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Health
7
Global Healing
Global Healing promotes health care reform in areas of the world where modern medical health care is not available. Global Healing aims for sustainable development of healthcare services, rather than short-term or emergency interventions.
International
8
Mali Health Organizing Project Inc
Mali Health improves maternal and child health by supporting women, communities, and the community health system to develop local solutions that ensure every mother and child has access to quality primary care.
Community Improvement
9
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation
Central maine healthcare corporation supports its affiliated healthcare institutions in order for these entities to provide exceptional healthcare services.
Health
10
Trinity Health
Meeting the needs of the whole person through quality health care and health-related services.
Health
11
International Community Health Services
Provide health services to improve the health of asian pacific islander and other communities.
Health
12
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc
To support the delivery of health care services to patients in the new york metropolitan area.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Village Health Works and the most unlike its peers is Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
06the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
12/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
International$13,287,898Other$790,000Education$305,000Environment$75,000Health$50,000
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 PIVOTWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES NEW YORK METRO ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LANDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION OF TAMIL SANGAMS OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LAST MILE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds LWALA COMMUNITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MUSO ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds HARBOR COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MEDIC MOBILE ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE HEALTH WORKS ↗
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.
Arie and Ida Crown MemorialIL20.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Deerfield Partnership Foundation · Mulago Foundation · Dovetail Impact Foundation · Panorama Global · Sall Family Foundation · The Ray and Tye Noorda Foundation · 128 Collective Foundation · Rippleworks Inc · The Skoll Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy 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 organisation THE HERRNSTEIN FAMILY 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PIVOTWORKS INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~12 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.3× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 463075530 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on PIVOTWORKS INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 12 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 45% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Herrnstein Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Herrnstein Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines