Herbalife Family Foundation
Los Angeles, CA · EIN 51-0523266. Reported 154 grants totalling $7,693,953 to 52 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Herbalife Family Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a corporate foundation (NTEE T21).
- How spread out its giving is. 52 distinct organizations, with 13% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 77% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $35,000. Half of what it reported fell between $25,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $6,500 and the largest $333,334. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the World Food Program Inc | Washington, DC | $1,000,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Feed the Children Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $600,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Save the Children Federation Inc | Fairfield, CT | $331,935 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Global Foodbanking Network | Chicago, IL | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| A Place Called Home | Los Angeles, CA | $285,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Wilkinson Center | Dallas, TX | $220,076 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Koinonia Foster Homes Inc | Loomis, CA | $220,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Marthas Table | Washington, DC | $220,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Global Hunger Project | New York, NY | $216,667 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Young Womens Christian Association of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County | Winston Salem, NC | $205,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Childrens Home Inc | Tampa, FL | $200,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Childrens Institute Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $200,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Erie Neighborhood House | Chicago, IL | $200,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lulac Institute Inc | Washington, DC | $190,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Lily Missions Center | Jackson, MI | $188,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New Pathways for Youth Inc | Phoenix, AZ | $176,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Center for Children and Families Inc | Norman, OK | $171,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| CASA De Esperanza De Los Ninos Incorporated | Houston, TX | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of El Paso | El Paso, TX | $147,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Atlanta Childrens Shelter Inc | Atlanta, GA | $142,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Healy Murphy Center Inc | San Antonio, TX | $140,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Friendly House Inc | Worcester, MA | $137,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Volunteer Center South Bay Harbor Long Beach | Torrance, CA | $134,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Inc | Denver, CO | $132,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Barton's Boosters Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $131,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Transformation Ministries Inc | South Bend, IN | $126,318 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico Inc | Carolina, PR | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Wellspring Womens Center | Sacramento, CA | $122,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Youth Farm | Minneapolis, MN | $115,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Childrens Hunger Alliance | Columbus, OH | $114,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Heart of Los Angeles Youth Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $112,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Orange County Rescue Mission Inc | Tustin, CA | $112,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Acres of Love Inc | San Juan Capo, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Childrens Home of Lubbock and Family Service Agency Inc | Lubbock, TX | $80,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Los Angeles Urban League | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Breakthrough T1D | New York, NY | $69,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Legacy Housing | Kansas City, MO | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Chrysalis Center | Los Angeles, CA | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade - Black United Fund Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | Vernon, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Unidosus | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| National Hispanic Council on Aging | Washington, DC | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Inc | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Village Book Builders Inc | Mapleton, UT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $19,957 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Our Own Non Profit Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Wheelchair Foundation | Henderson, NV | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Educare Foundation | Van Nuys, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| International Medical Assistance Inc | Modesto, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United States Hispanic Leadership Institute Inc | Chicago, IL | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
42 of 52 (81%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 39 of 52 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 42 | $1,773,767 | $33,166 |
| 2022 | 46 | $2,656,158 | $32,000 |
| 2023 | 35 | $1,714,520 | $40,000 |
| 2024 | 31 | $1,549,508 | $42,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
21% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $35,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Herbalife Family Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 800 W Olympic Boulevard 406, Los Angeles, CA, 90015.
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