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The Herson-Stirman Family Foundation Inc

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.

$233k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$223kInternational$201kPhilanthropy$149kEnvironment$118kEducation$99kReligion$99kFood & Nutrition$98kPublic Safety & Disaster$93kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $159k
$6,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD DANCE FOR HUMANITY$24,500
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$17,000
EQUEST$15,500
US AGAINST ALZHEIMERS$15,000
DC CENTRAL KITCHEN$12,500
PHILABUNDANCE$11,500
HOME OF THE SPARROW$11,500
MONTGOMERY COLLEGE$10,500
THE CHOLANGIOCARCINOME FOUNDATION$10,500
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES$10,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAHBATYA$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$10,000
NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS$7,000
CLAYTON DABNEY FOUNDATION$7,000
SANTA BARBARA AGRICULTURAL & FARM EDUCATIONS$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $6k → 6%SMOKEY MOUNTAIN SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 10%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $6k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 6%WOMEN'S FUND OF EAST TENNESSEE: $3k → 12%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 6%WOMEN'S FUND OF EAST TENNESSEE: $1k → 12%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 6%WOMEN'S FUND OF EAST TENNESSEE: $1k → 12%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 6%WOMEN'S FUND OF EAST TENNESSEE: $1k → 12%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 6%WOMEN'S FUND OF EAST TENNESSEE: $1k → 12%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 6%WOMEN'S FUND OF EAST TENNESSEE: $250 → 12%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 6%GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER AND SUPPORT: $10k → 14%ZAKA SEARCH AND RESCUE: $3k → 17%NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $5k → 8%ZAKA SEARCH AND RESCUE: $1k → 17%ZAKA SEARCH AND RESCUE: $1k → 17%SHE SHOULD RUN: $5k → 14%SHE SHOULD RUN: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
OR
IN
PA
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 40 repeat orgs$114k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
12

Total granted

$1.5M
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+32%

Still filing today

68%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalHealthFood & NutritionEnvironmentEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • U
    USAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S
    9× · 2017–2025 · $111k · revenue +8%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue ×15
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $96k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +12%
  • BR
    BRIDGE REFUGEE SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +19%
  • GW
    GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -72%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…

International
2
Women's Refugee Commission Inc

To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…

Human Services
3
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
4
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
5
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
6
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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7
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
8
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
9
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
10
International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International
11
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
12
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Children and Families; the most unlike its peers is Trout Unlimited Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
27/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAHBATYA: $185,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAHBATYAEQUEST: $83,500 · OtherEQUESTTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $81,200 · OtherTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $45,750 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODMONTGOMERY COUNTY FOUNDATION: $34,000 · OtherISRAEL TENNIS CENTER: $31,000 · OtherEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $38,600 · OtherEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INCREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $29,250 · Other+22 more: $191,500 · Other+22 moreWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $105,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN I…World Dance for Humanity: $84,000 · InternationalWorld Dance for Humanit…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $75,250 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL D…International Rescue Committee INC: $27,250 · InternationalInternational Rescue Co…HIAS INC: $25,350 · InternationalHIAS INCCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $20,400 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTA…PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW: $55,750 · Food & NutritionPENNSYLVANI…CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $44,250 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL ARE…Philabundance: $43,750 · Food & NutritionPhilabundan…BREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $27,600 · Food & NutritionBREAD FOR T…USAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S: $111,000 · HealthUSAGAINST…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $12,000 · HealthBLOOD CAN…THE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION: $10,500 · HealthTHE CHOLA…+2 more: $4,000 · HealthNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $96,350 · EnvironmentNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $26,250 · Environment+1 more: $2,000 · EnvironmentMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $67,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE DALLAS REGIONINC: $26,000 · EducationA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $5,000 · EducationISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $33,500 · Human ServicesGENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $9,500 · Human ServicesSHE SHOULD RUN: $7,500 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S FUND OF EAST TENNESSEE: $6,750 · Human ServicesIsrael Magen Fund Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesSmoky Mountain Service Dogs: $5,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$720,300International$337,250Food & Nutrition$171,350Health$137,500Environment$124,600Education$98,000Human Services$72,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUSAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S: $111,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $105,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $96,350 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Dance for Humanity: $84,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetEQUEST: $83,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $81,200 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $75,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $67,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW: $55,750 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $44,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $43,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $38,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $33,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $29,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $27,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $27,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $26,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE DALLAS REGIONINC: $26,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHIAS INC: $25,350 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART: $22,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $20,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOOT CAMPAIGN INC: $11,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGE REFUGEE SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHE SHOULD RUN: $7,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF EAST TENNESSEE: $6,750 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetIsrael Magen Fund Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSmoky Mountain Service Dogs: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH SYSTEM OF TEXAS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds USAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds World Dance for Humanity ↗
  • Who funds EQUEST ↗
  • Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Philabundance ↗
  • Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE DALLAS REGIONINC ↗
  • Who funds HIAS INC ↗
  • Who funds KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOOT CAMPAIGN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE REFUGEE SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT ↗
  • Who funds SHE SHOULD RUN ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗

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.

The Pfizer Foundation IncNY14.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Herson-Stirman Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Herson-Stirman Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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