· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| CONGREATION BETH ISRAEL | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART | $2,000 |
| WASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION | $2,000 |
| WADSWORTH SULGRAVE HISTORIC PRESERVATION | $1,500 |
| LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| JEWISH MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VFVIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES AND PUBLIC POLICY8× · 2018–2025 · $207k · revenue +23%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE8× · 2017–2024 · $82k · revenue +78%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $69k · revenue +191%
Funded once
Resources for the Future Incone grant, 2018 · $84k · revenue +22%- ACATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +92%
- GCGOUCHER COLLEGE-HILLELone grant, 2017 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
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."
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.
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…
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
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.
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
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)
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…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
How this is measured
56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds Little Falls Village Corporation ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sally M and Stephen Herman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sally M and Stephen Herman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
- Goucher College: 0% of income from government
- Catlin Gabel School: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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