Illinois · Nonprofit
Herscher Foundation Inc
Herscher Foundation Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $212,000 to it, the largest being Sims Family Charitable Foundation ($212,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $167k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $212k
- Net assets
- $172k
What Herscher Foundation Inc does
Mission
To Benefit the community
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Award a Monthly Senior of the Month Award to High School Seniors chosen by the Herschere High School Staff
Participate in the Christopher Sims Memorial Scholarship awarded each year to a gruaduating Senior Winner is chosen by a committee made up of present and former school personnel, Foundation Board Members, individuals from the comm
Participate in community fundraisers to benefit needy families and local organizations. Funds were disbursed to about one hundred famillies and charitable organizations. Disbursements are overseen by a cmommittee made of Foundation Board Members and individuals from the community.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $161k to $100k (−38%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $85k → $50k.
From the IRS filings of Herscher Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of Herscher Foundation Inc's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like Herscher Foundation Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Herscher Foundation Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Herscher Foundation Inc?
- Herscher Foundation Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $212,000 to it, the largest being Sims Family Charitable Foundation ($212,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Herscher Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $212,000 in grants to Herscher Foundation Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Herscher Foundation Inc?
- Sims Family Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $212,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Herscher Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing