North Carolina · Private foundation
The Leonard G Herring Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2024
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $245,750
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 40
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $23M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations The Leonard G Herring Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 40 | $1.3M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $1.4M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $1.7M | 24% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $1.2M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| NC TechPaths Inc | $1,600,000 | 3 | 40% |
| Wilkes Community College Foundation Inc | $700,000 | 2 | 17% |
| Wilkes Economic Development Corporation | $324,500 | 4 | 20% |
| Wilkes County Schools | $194,100 | 5 | n/a |
| Blue Ridge Opportunity Commission Inc | $186,200 | 5 | 1% |
| Old Hickory Council Inc Boy Scouts of America | $175,000 | 5 | 3% |
| North Carolina Zoological Society Inc | $120,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Wilkes Art Gallery Inc | $110,000 | 4 | 10% |
| Higher Ed Works | $105,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Catherine H Barber Memorial Shelter Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 17% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Leonard G Herring Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 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: The Stone Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Health Foundation Inc · United Way of Wilkes County Inc · Wilkes Medical Center Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Speedway Children's Charities · The Carson Foundation · Syla Foundation · Melton Foundation · Strickland Family Foundation Cynthia a S Graham
How this is measured
Compare The Leonard G Herring Family Foundation with peer funders
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About The Leonard G Herring Family Foundation
- How much does The Leonard G Herring Family Foundation give?
- The Leonard G Herring Family Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $1,289,824 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 40 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Leonard G Herring Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (31%), Employment (23%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are The Leonard G Herring Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: NC TechPaths Inc ($1.6M), Wilkes Community College Foundation Inc ($700k), Wilkes Economic Development Corporation ($325k).
- Does The Leonard G Herring Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Leonard G Herring Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Leonard G Herring Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Stone Foundation, The Winston-Salem Foundation, The Health Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Leonard G Herring Family Foundation based?
- The Leonard G Herring Family Foundation is based in NC.
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