Georgia · Private foundation
The Herschend Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $512k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $160,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 71
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 41% of the organizations The Herschend Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k 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 | 45 | $502k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 56 | $597k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $663k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 69 | $2.5M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 71 | $543k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 64 | $370k | 48% |
| FY2018 | 66 | $354k | 71% |
| FY2017 | 50 | $286k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Nazareth Project | $2,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Elevate Branson | $944,108 | 8 | 15% |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $97,400 | 7 | 0% |
| Young Life | $84,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Special Operations Care Fund Inc | $78,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Little Ones Ministries Inc | $77,008 | 6 | 9% |
| Silver Dollar City Foundation Inc | $76,058 | 4 | 7% |
| Faith Community Health DBA Hope Counseling Center | $62,889 | 4 | 2% |
| Lost & Found | $51,955 | 7 | 2% |
| John Brown University | $50,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 102 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 147 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Herschend Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 80 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr · The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly Family Foundation · United Way of the Ozarks Inc · Roy W Slusher Charitable Foundation · Cook Family Foundation · Larry P O'Reilly and Family Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Missouri Sports Hall of Fame · Ozarks Health Advocacy Foundation · Servant Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Herschend Family Foundation
- How much does The Herschend Family Foundation give?
- The Herschend Family Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $512,481 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 71 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Herschend Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (37%), Religion (15%), Community Improvement (14%).
- Who are The Herschend Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Nazareth Project ($2.0M), Elevate Branson ($944k), Fellowship of Christian Athletes ($97k).
- Does The Herschend Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Herschend Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Herschend Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc, Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr, The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly Family Foundation.
- Where is The Herschend Family Foundation based?
- The Herschend Family Foundation is based in GA.
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