Massachusetts · Private foundation
Hermann Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 63
- Grants FY2025
- 68
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $497,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 60 to 78
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $67M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Hermann Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $391k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 63 | $4.7M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 68 | $4.6M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 78 | $4.4M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 70 | $4.4M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 60 | $3.9M | 28% |
| FY2020 | 68 | $3.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stone Soup Leadership Institute Inc | $2,899,500 | 6 | 100% |
| Compassionate Care ALS Inc | $1,150,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Roxbury Stone House Inc | $950,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Pet Place International Inc | $739,000 | 6 | 89% |
| Northeastern University | $600,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc | $600,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Golden State Ballet Foundation | $570,000 | 5 | 12% |
| Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc | $550,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Church of the Messiah | $525,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Tommy's Place Foundation Inc | $500,000 | 5 | 8% |
Show all 96 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Hermann Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 91 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · The Fletcher Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust
How this is measured
About Hermann Foundation Inc
- How much does Hermann Foundation Inc give?
- Hermann Foundation Inc reported 63 grants totaling $4,676,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 60 and 78 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Hermann Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Health (17%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Hermann Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Stone Soup Leadership Institute Inc ($2.9M), Compassionate Care ALS Inc ($1.1M), Roxbury Stone House Inc ($950k).
- Does Hermann Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hermann Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hermann Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc, Cape Cod Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation.
- Where is Hermann Foundation Inc based?
- Hermann Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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