New York · Private foundation
The Herrnstein Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $80M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations The Herrnstein Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $5.4M | 8% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $2.5M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $2.5M | 27% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $2.1M | 18% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $2.5M | 56% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $2.5M | 14% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $2.4M | 71% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $3.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pivot Works Inc | $17,113,374 | 8 | 62% |
| Stony Brook Foundation Inc | $4,985,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $260,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities New York Metro Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Conservation Lands Foundation | $150,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Emory University | $38,470 | 1 | 0% |
| Last Mile Health | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Lwala Community Alliance | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pivot Works Inc | $17,113,374 | 8 | 62% |
| Stony Brook Foundation Inc | $4,985,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $260,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities New York Metro Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Conservation Lands Foundation | $150,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Emory University | $38,470 | 1 | 0% |
| Last Mile Health | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Lwala Community Alliance | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Muso Inc | $20,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Integrate Health Inc | $15,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Medic Mobile Inc | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Nyaya Health | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Harbor Country Day School | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Villagereach | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Village Health Works | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Givepower Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sanitation and Health Rights in India | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($398k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Herrnstein Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About The Herrnstein Family Foundation
- How much does The Herrnstein Family Foundation give?
- The Herrnstein Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $5,829,241 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Herrnstein Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (73%), Education (23%), Human Services (1%).
- Who are The Herrnstein Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pivot Works Inc ($17M), Stony Brook Foundation Inc ($5.0M), Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation ($260k).
- Does The Herrnstein Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Herrnstein Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Herrnstein Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mulago Foundation, Panorama Global, Arie and Ida Crown Memorial.
- Where is The Herrnstein Family Foundation based?
- The Herrnstein Family Foundation is based in NY.
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