· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ST EMYDIUS CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MYCHAL'S LEARNING PLACE | $10,000 |
| ST PIUS X - ST MATTHIAS ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| DOLORES MISSION SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| TIERRA DEL SOL FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| TACSC | $5,000 |
| CRISTO REY ORANGE COUNTY HIGH SCHOO | $5,000 |
| LA CANADA BASEBALL SOFTBALL ASSOCIA | $5,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 17% of Virginia Garcia Herrera Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 78%.
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 +76% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TDTierra del Sol Foundation4× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +54%
- MLMYCHALS LEARNING PLACE2× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +79%
- 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 · revenue 0% · 46% of their budget
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.
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.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 38 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 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 DE COLORES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DOLORES MISSION CHURCH ↗
- Who funds OPERATION WALK OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds MYCHALS LEARNING PLACE ↗
- Who funds ALMA BACKYARD FARM ↗
- Who funds International Life Services Affiliated Group Cente ↗
- Who funds Proyecto Pastoral ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds LA CANADA BASEBALLSOFTBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY ORANGE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH GATE POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Virginia Garcia Herrera Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Virginia Garcia Herrera Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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