California · Private foundation
Virginia Garcia Herrera 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.
- $766k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 16
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $572k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Virginia Garcia Herrera Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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 | 14 | $766k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $138k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $96k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $15k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $76k | 58% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $407k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verbum Dei Jesuit High School | $380,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Dolores Mission School | $77,500 | 5 | n/a |
| St Catherine's Academy | $65,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Iberoamericana University Penoac | $60,000 | 1 | 30% |
| Sheros Rise Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Our Lady of the Assumption School | $45,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Arpa Foundation for Film Music and Arts | $40,000 | 1 | 46% |
| Homeboy Industries | $32,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Tierra del Sol Foundation | $31,000 | 4 | 0% |
| De Colores Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 9% |
Show all 24 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verbum Dei Jesuit High School | $380,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Dolores Mission School | $77,500 | 5 | n/a |
| St Catherine's Academy | $65,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Iberoamericana University Penoac | $60,000 | 1 | 30% |
| Sheros Rise Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Our Lady of the Assumption School | $45,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Arpa Foundation for Film Music and Arts | $40,000 | 1 | 46% |
| Homeboy Industries | $32,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Tierra del Sol Foundation | $31,000 | 4 | 0% |
| De Colores Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Friends of Dolores Mission Church | $25,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Operation Walk of Los Angeles Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Mychals Learning Place | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Alma Backyard Farm | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| International Life Services Affiliated Group Cente | $12,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Proyecto Pastoral | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Young Life | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities of Los Angeles Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| La Canada Baseballsoftball Association | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Children's Cancer Research Fund | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Damien High Schools a Corp | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cristo Rey Orange County High School Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| South Gate Police Activities League | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($529k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Virginia Garcia Herrera Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 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: California Community Foundation · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Green Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Sempra Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
Compare Virginia Garcia Herrera Foundation with peer funders
About Virginia Garcia Herrera Foundation
- How much does Virginia Garcia Herrera Foundation give?
- Virginia Garcia Herrera Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $765,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Virginia Garcia Herrera Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Religion (21%), Youth Development (8%).
- Who are Virginia Garcia Herrera Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Verbum Dei Jesuit High School ($380k), Dolores Mission School ($78k), St Catherine's Academy ($65k).
- Does Virginia Garcia Herrera Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Virginia Garcia Herrera 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 Virginia Garcia Herrera Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation, Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles.
- Where is Virginia Garcia Herrera Foundation based?
- Virginia Garcia Herrera Foundation is based in CA.
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