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The Sally M and Stephen Herman 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.

$91k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0179% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$263kEducation$156kEnvironment$124kCivil Rights$82kInternational$34kFood & Nutrition$23kHuman Services$19kPhilanthropy$14kReligion$4kOther$201k
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
$2,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$132k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VIRGINIA HUMANITIES$25,018
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$15,000
TEMPLE MICAH$12,500
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION$9,000
CROW COLLEGE$5,000
TIDEWATER JEWISH FOUNDATION$5,000
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART$2,000
WASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION$2,000
EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL$2,000
CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL$2,000
CONGREATION BETH ISRAEL$2,000
NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION$2,000
WADSWORTH SULGRAVE HISTORIC PRESERVATION$1,500
LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$1,000
JEWISH MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHECKPOINT ONE: $1k → 5%CHECKPOINT ONE: $500 → 5%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $3k → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $2k → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $2k → 8%SULAM: $500 → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $2k → 8%LITTLE FALLS VILLAGE: $3k → 8%LITTLE FALLS VILLAGE: $2k → 8%LITTLE FALLS VILLAGE: $2k → 8%LITTLE FALLS VILLAGE: $2k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
VA
MD
TN
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$731k · 55 repeat orgs$92k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

55 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
38

Total granted

$731k
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+14%

Still filing today

62%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • VF
    VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES AND PUBLIC POLICY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $207k · revenue +23%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $82k · revenue +78%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $69k · revenue +191%

Funded once

  • AC
    ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +92%
  • GC
    GOUCHER COLLEGE-HILLEL
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA VA HUMANITIES
    one grant, 2020 · $3k

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

7
Washington & Jefferson College

To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.

Education
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

9
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

10
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
11
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
12
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is Lynnhaven River Now. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood Banks and PantriesJewish Community Organizati…Independent K-12 SchoolsLocal History MuseumsSenior Support ServicesElementary Literacy TutoringCommunity Arts CentersCommunity College Foundatio…Environmental Conservation …Cancer Support ServicesEquine Therapy ProgramsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%47%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%60%35–55yr16%29%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/62
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,503

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 102 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/56
Grantees still filing
39/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES AND PUBLIC POLICY — $206,978 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMA…BLUEGRASS COUNTRY FOUNDATION — $26,950 · Arts & CultureBLUEGRASS COUNTRY FOUNDATIONTHE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED — $11,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more — $18,135 · Arts & Culture+14 moreTEMPLE MICAH WASHINGTON DC — $51,500 · OtherTEMPLE MICAH WASHINGTON DCWAMU — $18,200 · OtherWAMUANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $15,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEWASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION — $10,880 · OtherGOUCHER COLLEGE-HILLEL — $10,000 · OtherKENNEDY CENTER — $9,200 · OtherNATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION — $8,000 · OtherLittle Falls Village Corporation — $8,500 · OtherJEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $8,500 · OtherTIDEWATER JEWISH FOUNDATION INC — $11,500 · Other+56 more — $86,560 · Other+56 moreUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $69,085 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VIRGI…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $37,300 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSI…GOUCHER COLLEGE — $36,942 · EducationGOUCHER COLLEGECATLIN GABEL SCHOOL — $6,000 · Education+5 more — $6,600 · EducationResources for the Future Inc — $84,000 · EnvironmentResources for t…CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $24,500 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BAY …NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $15,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS …+1 more — $400 · EnvironmentANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $82,125 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAM…ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC — $25,000 · InternationalSEEDS OF PEACE INC — $7,500 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $1,300 · InternationalCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $11,500 · Food & NutritionFeeding America — $11,000 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$263,063Other$237,840Education$155,927Environment$123,900Civil Rights$82,125International$33,800Food & Nutrition$22,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES AND PUBLIC POLICY — $206,978 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetResources for the Future Inc — $84,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $82,125 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $69,085 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $37,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOUCHER COLLEGE — $36,942 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBLUEGRASS COUNTRY FOUNDATION — $26,950 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $24,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIDEWATER JEWISH FOUNDATION INC — $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED — $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Falls Village Corporation — $8,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetJEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOME INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATLIN GABEL SCHOOL — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCROWN COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Gallery of Art — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $2,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NORFOLK ACADEMY — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $2,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCongregation Beth Israel — $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTURNING THE PAGE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation — $1,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCheckpoint One — $1,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOUTHERN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR CULTURAL VIBRANCY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVIRGINIA AQUARIUM & MARINE SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF WWOZ INC — $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSuffolk Nansemond Historical Society — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSulam Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson Foundation of the National Capital Area — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEarlham College Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYNNHAVEN RIVER NOW — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

  • Who funds VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES AND PUBLIC POLICY
  • Who funds Resources for the Future Inc
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds GOUCHER COLLEGE
  • Who funds BLUEGRASS COUNTRY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds TIDEWATER JEWISH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds Feeding America
  • Who funds THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED
  • Who funds Little Falls Village Corporation
  • Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC
  • Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC
  • Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds SOME INC
  • Who funds CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL
  • Who funds CROWN COLLEGE
  • Who funds National Gallery of Art
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
  • Who funds THE NORFOLK ACADEMY
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds SIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC22.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · L & J Goldrich Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Alisann and Terry Collins Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · American Gift Fund · Ibm International Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Sally M and Stephen Herman Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc2% of income from government
  • Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc2% of income from government
  • Goucher College0% of income from government
  • Catlin Gabel School0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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How do I get to The Sally M and Stephen Herman Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Sally M and Stephen Herman Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 102 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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