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William H Herrman 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.

$1k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$612
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$1.8MEducation$742kPhilanthropy$323kArts & Culture$149kHealth$61kEmployment$43kHuman Services$5kCrime & Legal$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$612
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SANFORD C BERNSTEIN & CO LLC AS CUSTODIAN FOR KAMIN FAMILY FUND$612
SANFORD C BERNSTEIN & CO LLC AS CUSTODIAN FOR HERRMAN II FAMILY FUND$612
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SEARCH AND CARE INC: $250 → 17%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

MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
VA
LA
GA

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 18 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
31

Total granted

$1.9M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+11%

Still filing today

44%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $612 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesAnimalsOther

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

  • COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $515k · revenue +64%
  • Trustees of Tufts College
    3× · 2020–2022 · $7k · revenue +39%
  • JF
    JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $6k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE
    one grant, 2023 · $750k
  • AA
    AEF AS CUSTODIAN FOR DANA P AND WILLIAM H HERRMAN II FAMILY FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $161k
  • TP
    THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +18%

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.

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New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
New York Institute of Technology

New york institute of technology (nyit) offers various degree programs, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees, in more than 50 fields of study, including architecture and design; arts and sciences; (continued on…

Education
5
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
6
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
7
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
8
Marymount Manhattan College

Marymount manhattan college is an urban, independent, liberal arts college (see schedule o).

Education
9
Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation

To provide with compassion and dedication superior quality health care and rehabilitation for adults and to directly or indirectly coordinate arrangements and provision for comprehensive health care and social support services to frail…

Health
10
Teachers College Columbia University

Teachers College, Columbia Universitys (TC or the College) mission is to empower committed learners and leaders to build a smarter, healthier, more just and equitable world through multidisciplinary knowledge creation, policy engagement,…

Education
11
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
12
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Coalition for Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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 43 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr20%26%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr13%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr20%1%20–35yr13%55%35–55yr13%43%55yr+

The field is 20% 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 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
12%
4,635/38,217

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

27 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. 27 of the 52 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
21/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHURCH OF THE HEAVENLY REST — $1,003,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE HEAVENLY RESTCATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE — $750,000 · OtherCATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINESANFORD C BERNSTEIN & CO LLC AS CUSTODIAN FOR KAMIN FAMILY FUND — $161,397 · OtherSANFORD C BERNSTEIN & CO LLC AS CUSTODIAN FOR KAMIN FAMILY FUNDAEF AS CUSTODIAN FOR DANA P AND WILLIAM H HERRMAN II FAMILY FUND — $160,785 · OtherAEF AS CUSTODIAN FOR DANA P AND WILLIAM H HERRMAN II FAMILY FUNDBROWN UNIVERSITY CHARITABLE TR 111695 — $117,000 · Other+26 more — $92,562 · OtherCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC — $515,000 · EducationCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INCCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY — $50,000 · EducationCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL …Emory University — $25,000 · Education+5 more — $16,200 · EducationTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureOpening Act Inc — $45,250 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureCUREPSP INC — $50,000 · HealthSWEET READERS INC — $2,500 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $2,500 · Health+2 more — $1,500 · HealthOPERATION SMILE INC — $5,000 · InternationalFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $2,500 · Community ImprovementCARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS INC — $400 · Community ImprovementOPERATION RESTORATION — $2,500 · Human ServicesSEARCH AND CARE INC — $250 · Human Services
Other$2,284,744Education$606,200Arts & Culture$146,250Health$56,500International$5,000Community Improvement$2,900Human Services$2,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC — $515,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCUREPSP INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOpening Act Inc — $45,250 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetEmory University — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION RESTORATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWEET READERS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL HAVEN INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRISING TREETOPS AT OAKHURST — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACKERMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE FAMILY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREEK CHILDRENS FUND OF MEMORIAL SLOAN - KETTERING CANCER CENTER INC — $500 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS INC — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEARCH AND CARE INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $200 over 1y, 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY18.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Mercy Family Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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 William H Herrman 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%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College13% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to William H Herrman Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to William H Herrman 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 52 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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