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Hermann Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
63
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$498k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Arts & Culture$6.3MHealth$4.4MHuman Services$3.4MEnvironment$2.6MHousing & Shelter$1.9MEducation$1.4MFood & Nutrition$1.0MReligion$853kOther$0
02FY2025 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $555k
  • $50k–250k36 grants · $3.4M
  • $250k+2 grants · $748k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$67M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STONE SOUP LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$497,500
BARNSTABLE LAND TRUST$250,000
ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE$200,000
WOODWELL CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTER$200,000
GOLDEN STATE BALLET FOUNDATION$200,000
COMPASSIONATE CARE ALS$200,000
HIGHFIELD HALL AND GARDENS FALMOUTH$150,000
HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORP OF CAPE COD$150,000
PET PLACE INTERNATIONAL INC$134,000
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF CAPE COD$125,000
FARMING FALMOUTH$100,000
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$100,000
FALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST$100,000
WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE$100,000
FALMOUTH ACADEMY$100,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $3.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $100k → 8%DENNISON MEMORIAL COMMUNITY CENTER: $62k → 11%THE COMMUNITY FAMILY: $135k → 8%DENNISON MEMORIAL COMMUNITY CENTER: $48k → 11%REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $100k → 8%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $25k → 11%THE COMMUNITY FAMILY: $100k → 8%REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $100k → 8%THE COMMUNITY FAMILY: $75k → 8%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 11%REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $100k → 8%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 11%THE COMMUNITY FAMILY: $75k → 8%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 11%REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $100k → 8%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 11%THE COMMUNITY FAMILY: $75k → 8%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 11%REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $100k → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $72k → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $35k → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $35k → 8%TOMMY'S PLACE FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%WEST SUBURBAN YMCA: $25k → 8%TOMMY'S PLACE FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE: $200k → 16%TOMMY'S PLACE FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE: $200k → 16%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE: $200k → 16%TOMMY'S PLACE FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE: $200k → 16%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE: $150k → 16%TOMMY'S PLACE FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%LAURA'S HOUSE: $30k → 11%LAURA'S HOUSE: $30k → 11%LAURA'S HOUSE: $30k → 11%LAURA'S HOUSE: $30k → 11%LAURA'S HOUSE: $25k → 11%LAURA'S HOUSE: $25k → 11%VISITATION HOUSE: $25k → 11%VISITATION HOUSE: $25k → 11%VISITATION HOUSE: $25k → 11%WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 11%THE ROCK MINISTRIES: $43k → 8%WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 11%WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 11%WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 11%WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$25M · 91 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

91 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

91
31

Total granted

$25M
$842k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+19%

Still filing today

76%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • SS
    Stone Soup Leadership Institute Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +19% · 100% of their budget
  • RS
    ROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $950k · revenue +2%
  • PP
    PET PLACE INTERNATIONAL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $739k · revenue +14% · 89% of their budget

Funded once

  • FS
    FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +30%
  • JC
    JML CARE CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $84k
  • MO
    MUSEUMS ON THE GREEN
    one grant, 2020 · $75k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Walkboston Inc

Walkmassachusetts makes walking safer and easier in massachusetts to encourage better health, a cleaner environment and vibrant communities.

Unclassified
2
Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health
3
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
4
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
5
Worcester Art Museum

To connect people, communities, and cultures through experience of art. collect the most significant works of art available in an effort to shape the quality/scope of the permanent collection while adhering to the institution's…

Arts & Culture
6
Worcester Natural History Society Inc

The ecotarium's mission is to inspire a passion for science and nature among all members of the community through one-of-a-kind experiences, interactive exhibits, and accessible programming. as new england's leading science and nature…

Arts & Culture
7
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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8
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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9
New England Museum Association

New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.

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10
Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.

—
11
Westport Land Conservation Trust Inc

To preserve and protect westport massachusetts natural resources for people and nature, and to educate the public about the wise use of natural resources.

Environment
12
Worcester County Horticultural Society

New england botanic garden at tower hill creates experiences with plants that inspire people and improve the world.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Family Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Rock Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLand Conservation & Outdoor…Early Childhood Education C…Education Equity AdvocacyYouth Sports LeaguesHistoric House MuseumsSocial Justice Advocacy Org…Fraternal Lodges & Veterans…Professional Trade Associat…Private Recreational ClubsAnimal Rescue and Shelter S…School Support FoundationsHealth Equity and Disease R…Performing Arts Organizatio…Family Philanthropic Founda…Disability Services & Suppo…Senior Housing ProvidersSenior Residential Care
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr14%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr19%43%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr14%11%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/96
the rest of the field
11%
3,474/31,180

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

93 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. 93 of the 129 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
93/93
Grantees still filing
75/93
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $783,667 · OtherCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONHIGHFIELD HALL AND GARDENS FALMOUTH — $750,000 · OtherHIGHFIELD HALL AND GARDENS FALMOUTHHOUSING ASSISTANCE CORP OF CAPE COD — $725,000 · OtherHOUSING ASSISTANCE CORP OF CAPE CODCHURCH OF THE MESSIAH — $525,000 · OtherFALMOUTH ART CENTER — $452,000 · OtherCAPE COD SYMPHONY & CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC & ARTS — $400,000 · OtherPET PLACE INTERNATIONAL INC — $739,000 · OtherPET PLACE INTERNATIONAL INC+67 more — $6,258,045 · Other+67 moreCompassionate Care ALS Inc — $1,150,000 · Human ServicesCompassionate Care A…ROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC — $950,000 · Human ServicesROXBURY STONE HOUSE …REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $600,000 · Human ServicesREACH BEYOND DOMESTI…Tommy's Place Foundation Inc — $500,000 · Human ServicesTommy's Place Founda…THE COMMUNITY FAMILY INC — $460,000 · Human ServicesTHE COMMUNITY FAMILY…Episcopal Community Services — $250,000 · Human ServicesEpiscopal Community …WORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $170,000 · Human ServicesLAURA'S HOUSE — $170,000 · Human Services+6 more — $420,000 · Human Services+6 moreStone Soup Leadership Institute Inc — $2,899,500 · Arts & CultureStone Soup Leadershi…GOLDEN STATE BALLET FOUNDATION — $570,000 · Arts & CultureGOLDEN STATE BALLET …MUSEUM OF SCIENCE — $300,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF SCIENCEWORCESTER CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC — $235,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureCAPE ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT INC — $200,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $141,000 · Arts & CultureTHE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC — $425,000 · EnvironmentBARNSTABLE LAND TRUST INC — $415,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC — $400,000 · EnvironmentASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC — $270,000 · EnvironmentREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC — $135,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $135,000 · Environment+3 more — $12,000 · EnvironmentPROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $470,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF CAPE COD INC — $325,000 · HealthJEWISH HEALTHCARE CENTER INC — $280,000 · HealthRECOVERY WITHOUT WALLS INC — $270,000 · HealthLUCY'S LOVE BUS CHARITABLE TRUST INC — $160,000 · HealthTHE MAVEN PROJECT — $100,000 · Health+4 more — $150,000 · HealthNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $600,000 · EducationFALMOUTH ACADEMY INC — $200,000 · Education365Z FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · EducationSUMMIT AGENCY INC — $100,000 · EducationDEAN COLLEGE — $100,000 · EducationWORCESTER EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $98,000 · EducationAMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY — $50,000 · Education+2 more — $4,000 · EducationWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc — $550,000 · Science & TechMARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY — $200,000 · Science & TechWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION — $200,000 · Science & Tech
Other$10,632,712Human Services$4,670,000Arts & Culture$4,545,500Environment$1,792,000Health$1,755,000Education$1,302,000Science & Tech$950,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetStone Soup Leadership Institute Inc — $2,899,500 over 6y, 100% of budgetCompassionate Care ALS Inc — $1,150,000 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC — $950,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetPET PLACE INTERNATIONAL INC — $739,000 over 6y, 89% of budgetREACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $600,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $600,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN STATE BALLET FOUNDATION — $570,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc — $550,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTommy's Place Foundation Inc — $500,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $470,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FAMILY INC — $460,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetTHE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC — $425,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetBARNSTABLE LAND TRUST INC — $415,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetCENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC — $400,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetFALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST — $350,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetCAPE CARES CENTRAL AMERICAN RELIEF EFFORTS INC — $335,000 over 6y, 36% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC — $325,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF CAPE COD INC — $325,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE — $300,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH HEALTHCARE CENTER INC — $280,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC — $270,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetRECOVERY WITHOUT WALLS INC — $270,000 over 6y, 32% of budgetEpiscopal Community Services — $250,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD FALMOUTH INC — $250,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetWORCESTER CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC — $235,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSTARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $225,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC — $200,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetMARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY — $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFALMOUTH ACADEMY INC — $200,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCAPE ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT INC — $200,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $170,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLAURA'S HOUSE — $170,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetFALMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $162,500 over 2y, 21% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc — $160,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLUCY'S LOVE BUS CHARITABLE TRUST INC — $160,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetCITY SPROUTS INC — $150,000 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetBELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC — $150,000 over 2y, 31% of budget365Z FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 6y, 58% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $142,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC — $135,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAPE COD INC — $135,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC — $135,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $135,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC — $125,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC — $125,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetDennison Memorial Community Center Inc — $110,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetWADE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION INC — $105,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budget
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 Stone Soup Leadership Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Compassionate Care ALS Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds PET PLACE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GOLDEN STATE BALLET FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Tommy's Place Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT ANGEL FOOD ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FAMILY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds BARNSTABLE LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC ↗
  • Who funds FALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST ↗
  • Who funds CAPE CARES CENTRAL AMERICAN RELIEF EFFORTS INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF CAPE COD INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH HEALTHCARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC ↗
  • Who funds RECOVERY WITHOUT WALLS INC ↗
  • Who funds Episcopal Community Services ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD FALMOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds FALMOUTH ACADEMY 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.

Rockland Trust Charit…Cape Cod Foundation I…Eastern Bank Foundati…The Fred Harris Danie…The George I Alden Tr…Mutual Bancorp Founda…Greater Worcester Com…Schwartz Charitable F…The Fletcher Foundati…Stoddard Charitable T…Martha's Vineyard Ban…Cape Cod Five Cents S…
Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation IncMA49.1× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 370%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Association to Preserve Cape Cod Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
  • Worcester Youth Center Inc — 64% of income from government
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
  • Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc — 53% of income from government
  • The Community Family Inc — 41% of income from government
  • Roxbury Stone House Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Center for Coastal Studies Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Dennison Memorial Community Center Inc — 21% of income from government
  • Marine Biological Laboratory — 20% of income from government
  • North End Athletic Association Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Community Harvest Project Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Jewish Healthcare Center Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Preservation Worcester Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Community Health Center of Cape Cod Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
  • American Antiquarian Society — 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Regional Environmental Council Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Barnstable Land Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Community Rowing Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Artsworcester Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Worcester Center for Performing Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Haddam Historical Society Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Community Music Center of Boston Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
  • Brainerd Memorial Library — 0% of income from government
  • Heroes in Transition Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Creative Hub Worcester — 0% of income from government
  • West Suburban Young Men's Christian Association — 0% of income from government
  • Dean College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
37get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 129 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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