Connecticut · Private foundation
The O'Herron Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $530k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 58
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $107,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 41 to 43
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The O'Herron Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 54 | $479k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $414k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $543k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $548k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $380k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fordham University | $125,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The New Canaan Library Inc | $112,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Horizons Bridgeport | $96,750 | 5 | 3% |
| Colgate University | $96,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Kids Empowered by Your Support Inc | $80,400 | 5 | 3% |
| At Home in Darieninc | $70,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Williams College | $62,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc | $55,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Teachers College Columbia University | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Fairfield University | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 52 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The O'Herron Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · The John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation · MLE Foundation Inc · Jeniam Foundation · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Stuart L Higley Foundation Inc · The a James Bach and Vona Hopkins Foundation Inc · Half Moon Foundation · The Queenan Fdn Acct · The Morris Family Foundation · Syd & Jan M Silverman Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The O'Herron Family Foundation
- How much does The O'Herron Family Foundation give?
- The O'Herron Family Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $530,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 43 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The O'Herron Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (66%), Human Services (7%), Health (6%).
- Who are The O'Herron Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Fordham University ($125k), The New Canaan Library Inc ($113k), Horizons Bridgeport ($97k).
- Does The O'Herron Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The O'Herron Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The O'Herron Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Hobbs Family Charitable Trust, The John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation.
- Where is The O'Herron Family Foundation based?
- The O'Herron Family Foundation is based in CT.
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