· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VERBUM DEI JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $350,000 |
| DOLORES MISSION CHURCH | $200,000 |
| JESUIT RESTORATIVE JUSTICE INITIATI | $75,000 |
| SHERO'S RISE | $50,000 |
| OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| MYCHAL'S LEARNING PLACE | $10,000 |
| LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ST EMYDIUS CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ST PIUS X - ST MATTHIAS ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| DOLORES MISSION SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| TIERRA DEL SOL FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| CRISTO REY ORANGE COUNTY HIGH SCHOO | $5,000 |
| TACSC | $5,000 |
| LA CANADA BASEBALL SOFTBALL ASSOCIA | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of Virginia Garcia Herrera Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 78% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +76% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 3 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TDTierra del Sol Foundation4× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +54%
- MLMYCHALS LEARNING PLACE2× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +90%
- ILInternational Life Services Affiliated Group Cente2× · 2021–2022 · $12k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF LOS ANGELESone grant, 2020 · $100k
- IUIBEROAMERICANA UNIVERSITY PENOACgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +143% · 30% of their budget
- AFARPA FOUNDATION FOR FILM MUSIC AND ARTSone grant, 2024 · $40k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To advance the human & civil rights of immigrants & refugees in los angeles; promote harmonious multi-ethnic human relations.
Immigration legal aid and awareness To provide professional legal services to those who come from foreign lands who lack sufficient means to obtain representation withouth regard to faith or national origin.
Mission is to contribute to progresive community and social change by expanding the credentialed workforce of knowledge and skilled leaders and organizers coming from low-income communities and communities of color.
Green Dot Public Schools' mission is to help transform public education so that every child can be successful in college, leadership and life. Green Dot Public Schools manages the development of and supports the operation of high quality…
Union rescue mission embraces people with the compassion of christ. we assist people experiencing homelessness by providing a comprehensive array of emergency and long-term services to our guests, including: food, shelter, clothing,…
A mission of "championing the development of latino individuals and families to create a strong, peaceful community," through its holistic, culturally relevant programming by providing bilingual/bicultural human services.
Al otro lado (aol) provides innovative cross-border legal services to refugees, deportees, and other migrantsin tijuana, mexico and throughout throughout the u.s., with a focus on southern california. aol's mission is to uplift immigrant…
Our mission is to empower charitable individuals and organizations across cultures and generations through professional philanthropy management solutions that allow clients to develop and sustain their philanthropy in support of catholic…
Our mission is to provide our children and families with love, education and family based concurrent services. We feel honored to have served more than 20,176 children and youth during our 31 years of service.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Los Angeles Inc and the most unlike its peers is Arpa Foundation for Film Music and Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
18 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 38 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 IBEROAMERICANA UNIVERSITY PENOAC ↗
- Who funds SHEROS RISE INC ↗
- Who funds ARPA FOUNDATION FOR FILM MUSIC AND ARTS ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds Tierra del Sol Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DOLORES MISSION CHURCH ↗
- Who funds DE COLORES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MYCHALS LEARNING PLACE ↗
- Who funds ALMA BACKYARD FARM ↗
- Who funds OPERATION WALK OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds International Life Services Affiliated Group Cente ↗
- Who funds Proyecto Pastoral ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds LA CANADA BASEBALLSOFTBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY ORANGE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH GATE POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE ↗
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.
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
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 Virginia Garcia Herrera Foundation 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.
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.