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The Ima Hernandez Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$26k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
36%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$8,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 11
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$216k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations The Ima Hernandez Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalFood & NutritionHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$26k13%
FY202311$23k36%
FY20227$19k14%
FY20219$19k67%
FY20207$18k0%
FY20195$15k20%
FY201811$19kn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$48kInternational$33kPublic Safety & Disaster$17kFood & Nutrition$14kAnimals$10kHuman Services$4kReligion$1kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation$46,29160%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$28,00070%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$16,00050%
Trinity Horse Refuge$5,2884n/a
International Rescue Committee INC$5,00010%
Yuba Sutter Gleaners Food Bank Inc$4,00040%
Community Bridges$3,50020%
Svaroopa Vidya Ashram$1,1022n/a
Birchbark Foundation Inc$1,10020%
The Council$1,0001n/a
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All grantees of The Ima Hernandez Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation$46,29160%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$28,00070%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$16,00050%
Trinity Horse Refuge$5,2884n/a
International Rescue Committee INC$5,00010%
Yuba Sutter Gleaners Food Bank Inc$4,00040%
Community Bridges$3,50020%
Svaroopa Vidya Ashram$1,1022n/a
Birchbark Foundation Inc$1,10020%
The Council$1,0001n/a
Yuba Feather Community Services Inc$1,00011%
Kindred Spirits Fawn Rescue$50010%
Native Animal Rescue$10010%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($26k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ima Hernandez Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUc Santa Cruz Foundation: $46,291 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $28,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $16,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYuba Sutter Gleaners Food Bank Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Bridges: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBirchbark Foundation Inc: $1,100 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYuba Feather Community Services Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetKindred Spirits Fawn Rescue: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNative Animal Rescue: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH10.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The Ima Hernandez Foundation

How much does The Ima Hernandez Foundation give?
The Ima Hernandez Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $25,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does The Ima Hernandez Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (34%), International (24%), Public Safety & Disaster (12%).
Who are The Ima Hernandez Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Uc Santa Cruz Foundation ($46k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($28k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($16k).
Does The Ima Hernandez Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Ima Hernandez 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 Ima Hernandez Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Ima Hernandez Foundation based?
The Ima Hernandez Foundation is based in CA.

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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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