How much did The Herschend Family Foundation grant in FY2025?

International$2.2MFood & Nutrition$964kHuman Services$231kHealth$102kYouth Development$100kReligion$93kEducation$85kPhilanthropy$51kHousing & Shelter$43kOther$2.1M

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

2018

religiouseducationalreligousbaptistyouthchristianfaith

2019

religiousmissionseducationalreligoushealthchristianlost

2020

religiouseducationalreligouskitcheninternationalfoodchristian

2021

religiouseducationalhills churchreligousboyschristianfellowship

2022

hillscarefaithfellowshipchristian

2023

southwestnwainternationalfoodchristianfellowship

2025

nazarethinternationalgardensfood

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k32 grants · $102k
$10k–50k13 grants · $250k
$50k–250k1 grant · $161k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

Elevate Branson$160,500
Nazareth Village$49,981
Miracle of Nazareth International Foundation Inc$30,000
Heart Support$25,000
K-Life$25,000
Special Operations Care Fund$20,000
Younglife$20,000
The Venues$15,000
Harvesters Community Food$13,000
1st Presbyterian Church of Branson$12,000
The Lodge Ministries$10,000
Ozark Mountain Legacy$10,000
John Brown University$10,000
Convoy of Hope$10,000
Como Mobile Aid Collective$8,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $231k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 86% of those 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.

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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.3M · 95 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

95 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 71 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

149

Total granted

$3.3M

$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+70%

Still filing today

27%

23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesReligionInternationalPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureOther

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

JW
JESUS WAS HOMELESS
8× · 2017–2025 · $944k · revenue +154%
Convoy of Hope
6× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +149%
FO
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
7× · 2017–2023 · $97k · revenue +99%

Funded once

NP
NAZARETH PROJECT INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue +131%
CO
City of Rockaway Beach
one grant, 2019 · $20k
TK
TRI-COUNTY K-LIFE
one grant, 2020 · $20k

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.

Hope Faith Ministries Inc

Hope Faith Ministries Inc. ("HFM") works to alleviate homelessness and poverty in the Kansas City area by providing basic necessities and assistance while also providing critical programs to help empower individuals

Human Services

Freedom House Ministries

House of Hope Kansas City is a Christian-based nonprofit organization that exists to rescue the next generation from hurt and trauma. We fulfill this mission by providing a 1) comprehensive , long-term residential therapeutic program for…

Education

Catholic Charities of Central and

Inspired by the Gospel of the Beatitudes as proclaimed by Jesus Christ, Catholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri is committed to providing care and creating hope for the lives of the vulnerable through compassionate social…

Human Services

Christs Hope U S a Inc

Empowering orphaned and vulnerable children to break the cycles of extreme poverty, AIDS, and spiritual brokenness through family-based care and discipleship in Jesus Christ.

Human Services

Bridge of Hope Ministries

As a faith-based organization, we believe our mission is to share God's love for all unhoused or housing insecure individuals regardless of age, gender, race, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or faith tradition.

Religion

Haven of Hope Ministry

Haven of Hope is a ministry committed to providing biblical mentoring and education, assisting couples in restoring broken relationships, healing wounded hearts, and leading marriages to emotional and spiritual oneness through the power of…

Religion

Christian Harvest International Min

Christian Harvest International serves to train and teach the church to change their communities, cities, and nations through effective, strategic prayer and to see souls converted to the Christian life.

Religion

Refuge of Hope Ministries

Glorify and serve god by providing meals for the hungry & emergency shelter for homeless men.

Religion

Child Hope International

We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ-centered care, training and social work.

Arts & Culture

Hope Ministries of Baton Rouge

Hope ministries helps impoverished families reach self-sufficiency via workforce development, financial literacy, community education, and a client choice food pantry.

Housing & Shelter

Challenge Ministries Us

The organization exists to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ while providing support and serving the poor through benevolent assistance, medical services, education, orphan care, church planting, etc.

International

World of Opportunity

World of Opportunity is an evangelical ministry that supports missionaries in the United States and around the world as they bring the Word of the Lord into peoples lives.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is John Brown University. 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.

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 21 years old; the field is 24. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/86

the rest of the field

10%

3,904/39,405

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.

05the grantee network

73 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

69/73

Grantees still filing

58/73

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

International$2,162,700Other$2,310,555Food & Nutrition$964,108Human Services$230,665Health$101,889Youth Development$99,900Religion$92,950

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.

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.

Community Foundation of the Ozarks IncMO48.7× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly · Roy W Slusher Charitable Foundation · Servant Foundation · Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr · Larry P O'Reilly and Family Foundation · United Way of the Ozarks Inc · Missouri Sports Hall of Fame · Arvest Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Skaggs Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation

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 Herschend 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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: Ozark Mountain Legacy.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~28 months of operating runway; revenue held over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 612005694 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 Ozark Mountain Legacy, 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 28 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 65% 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 Herschend Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Herschend 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.

The Herschend Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

73 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Herschend Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

The Herschend Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

73 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Herschend Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph