About Herrnstein Family Foundation
The Herrnstein Family Foundation concentrates its giving almost exclusively on strengthening nonprofit healthcare support organizations, primarily through large, direct grants to providers of hospital support services and platforms. Funding is highly concentrated in a very small set of recipients (notably repeated, multi-million-dollar awards to PivotWorks) and includes targeted support for patient-family services such as Ronald McDonald House in the New York area. Grants are typically sizable and program/operations–oriented rather than broadly diversified across sectors.
Focus Areas
Operational and capacity support for nonprofit healthcare support organizations (platforms and back-office services)Enterprise platforms/consulting for hospital support nonprofits (PivotWorks-type operations)Patient and family lodging/support for pediatric patients in the New York metro (Ronald McDonald House)Capacity-building and infrastructure grants for healthcare mission support organizations
Who They Fund
patients served by nonprofit healthcare organizationsdental patients in Madagascarinternational/overseas communities (Madagascar)
About Herrnstein Family Foundation
The Herrnstein Family Foundation’s clearest pattern is repeated multi-year support for healthcare support organizations, led by three very large grants to Pivotworks Inc in 2023, 2024, and 2025. Those awards were described as helping “the support organizations healthcare mission,” and they show a funder that concentrates dollars in a small set of mission-aligned nonprofits rather than spreading grants widely. That same pattern appears in its support for patient and family services in the New York area. Ronald Mcdonald House Charities New York Metro received $250,000 in 2023, placing family-facing support alongside infrastructure-oriented healthcare grants. The foundation also extends beyond direct patient support into related mission areas such as dental outreach in Madagascar and Center ValBio programming through Stony Brook Foundation Inc, indicating an interest in both service delivery and the platforms that sustain it. Recent grants also include health-research and allied nonprofit support organizations such as Partners in Health, Last Mile Health, and Integrate Health. The overall picture is of a regular funder that gives direct, often program-linked grants to organizations working in healthcare delivery, healthcare support services, and related mission infrastructure.
What Herrnstein Family Foundation Funds
A core theme is support for healthcare mission infrastructure. In 2024, The Herrnstein Family Foundation gave $10,000 to King Baudouin Foundation United States to help the support organizations healthcare mission, and in 2024 it gave $5,000 to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory for the same general purpose. These grants sit alongside larger commitments to organizations that assist other healthcare providers. Another visible area is dental outreach and research connected to Madagascar. In 2024, the foundation gave $100,000 to Stony Brook Foundation Inc for “dental outreach Madagascar and Center ValBio program,” and it repeated support with a $50,000 grant in 2023 for the same purpose. That pairing links the funder to both hands-on outreach and a research or field program. Education and youth-serving work also appear in the grant list. Children and Screens received $60,000 in 2024 and $50,000 in 2023, both for its exempt mission. Autism Nature Trail received $25,000 in 2024 and again in 2025.
How Herrnstein Family Foundation Gives
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$5.8M
Total Assets
$79.5M
Total Revenue
$15.6M
Total Expenses
$6.1M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $5K and $50K, with a median of $10K.
25th Percentile
$5K
Median
$10K
75th Percentile
$50K
Geographic Reach
Regional6 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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