· Private foundation
Hermann Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY | $5,180 |
| CELF SCHOOL OF EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $4,000 |
| FOODSHARE INC | $4,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
| CT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC | $3,000 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS | $3,000 |
| WBGY 57 | $2,000 |
| CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL FUND | $1,000 |
| HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS | $1,000 |
| CHANNEL 3 COUNTRY CAMP | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL CRYPTOLOGIC MUSEUM FUND | $1,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF CT | $1,000 |
| CONNECTICUT FARMLAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| HARTFORD AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC2× · 2017–2018 · $8k · revenue +145%- FIFOODSHARE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $8k · revenue +65%
- MTMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $7k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +46%
- GGOODSPEEDone grant, 2017 · $1k
- TMTHE MARK TWAIN MEMORIALone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue -1%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The Hospital of Central Connecticut is dedicated to fostering, sustaining and improving the health status of the people in the communities we serve.
The hartford foundation for public giving puts philanthropy into action to create lasting solutions that result in vibrant communities within the greater hartford region. as the region's community foundation, it is a public, grantmaking…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
CH-Franklin is a charitable organization which exists to meet the health needs of individuals within the communities it serves.
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
Hartford HealthCare's mission is to improve the health and healing of the people and communities it serves.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 25 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CRYPTOLOGIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY Connecticut Museum of Culture & History ↗
- Who funds CAMP COURANT INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds THE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds BLOOMFIELD VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE FUND INC C/O DANIEL ROSENTHAL ↗
- Who funds SIMSBURY ABC PROGRAM INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Aetna Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Elizabeth M Landon & Harriette M Landon · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Hermann Family Charitable Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Mark Twain Memorial — 22% of income from government
- Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- The Connecticut Historical Society Connecticut Museum of Culture & History — 1% of income from government
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.