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The Kathryn M and Ronald J Herman Jr Charitable 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.

$6k
Granted FY2022
5
Grants FY2022
5
Organizations funded FY2022
20%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$2,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 12
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
4
Total assets, FY2022
$2k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 20% of the organizations The Kathryn M and Ronald J Herman Jr Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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
FY20225$6k20%
FY20216$24k0%
FY20209$38k44%
FY201912$21k33%
FY20188$13k63%
FY20176$15kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$51kPublic Benefit$29kEducation$11kEnvironment$10kHealth$10kPhilanthropy$3kCommunity Improvement$2kHousing & Shelter$500Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of The Kathryn M and Ronald J Herman Jr Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Institute of Classical Architecture and Art Inc$50,50041%
The Garden Conservancy Inc$10,35040%
Ability Beyond Disability Inc$7,00030%
Danbury Grassroots Academy Inc$5,57321%
Folds of Honor Foundation$2,80020%
De la Salle Academy$2,50020%
Ridgefield Chamber of Commerce$2,00021%
American Cancer Society Inc$1,50030%
Rvnahealth Inc$1,00010%
Pink Aid Inc$50010%
Renewal House Inc$50010%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($31k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Kathryn M and Ronald J Herman Jr Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Institute of Classical Architecture and Art Inc: $50,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetThe Garden Conservancy Inc: $10,350 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAbility Beyond Disability Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDanbury Grassroots Academy Inc: $5,573 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFolds of Honor Foundation: $2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDe la Salle Academy: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRidgefield Chamber of Commerce: $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRvnahealth Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPink Aid Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRenewal House Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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 11.

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.

Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Kathryn M and Ronald J Herman Jr Charitable Foundation

How much does The Kathryn M and Ronald J Herman Jr Charitable Foundation give?
The Kathryn M and Ronald J Herman Jr Charitable Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $5,500 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does The Kathryn M and Ronald J Herman Jr Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (43%), Public Benefit (24%), Education (9%).
Who are The Kathryn M and Ronald J Herman Jr Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: The Institute of Classical Architecture and Art Inc ($51k), The Garden Conservancy Inc ($10k), Ability Beyond Disability Inc ($7k).
Does The Kathryn M and Ronald J Herman Jr Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Kathryn M and Ronald J Herman Jr Charitable 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 Kathryn M and Ronald J Herman Jr Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is The Kathryn M and Ronald J Herman Jr Charitable Foundation based?
The Kathryn M and Ronald J Herman Jr Charitable Foundation is based in CT.

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 22 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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