· Private foundation
Hermes Family Foundation Co Gwendolyn H
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORSYTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC | $26,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $8,500 |
| MOSES CONE HEALTH | $6,000 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $5,000 |
| FAMILY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS PIEDMONT TRIAD CH | $3,000 |
| CARLISLE SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY | $2,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BLUE RIDGE | $2,000 |
| SUMMIT SCHOOL INC | $2,000 |
| CARTER HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| MT TABOR HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| IMPRINTS CARES | $2,000 |
| THE PIEDMONT ARTS ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
39 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- FCFORSYTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC3× · 2020–2024 · $54k · revenue +46%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC4× · 2020–2023 · $19k · revenue +78%- TSThe Summit School Incorporated5× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- FCFRANKLIN COUNTRY HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $10k
- DUDUKE UNIVERSITY IRON DUKESone grant, 2017 · $8k
- PHPATRICK HENRY COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $6k
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.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
The mission of springfield college is to educate students in spirit, mind and body for leadership in service to others by building on a foundation of the college's humanics philosophy, academic excellence, service, and student success.…
To provide an enriching and challenging curriculum and educational community which encourages students to be life-long learners, develop strong character, serve their community, and deepen their faith.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Davidson Day is a Pre-K through 12th grade college preparatory school located in Davidson, North Carolina. Davidson Day School fosters academic excellence through collaboration, creativity, and character development. Our vision is to be a…
The mission of the spartanburg day school is to provide a superior educational experience, in a community of trust, that prepares students for a life well lived. spartanburg day school is dually accredited by southern association of…
The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…
We create opportunities for discovery and reflection by engaging the minds, hands, and hearts of our students.
Omni Montessori School is dedicated to adhering to the teachings of Maria Montessori by providing a child-centered environment that offers an individualized and integrated curriculum for students age 3 - grade nine.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Surry County Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
39 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. 39 of the 100 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 FORSYTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CARLISLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FERRUM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Summit School Incorporated ↗
- Who funds IMPRINTS CARES ↗
- Who funds MOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OPERATING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MT TABOR HIGH SCHOOL PTSA ↗
- Who funds SUMMERFIELD ELEMENTARY PTA ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Piedmont Arts Association ↗
- Who funds Oak Ridge Elementary School PTO ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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: The Winston-Salem Foundation · Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Reynolds American Foundation · The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont · Elster Foundation Agt · Duke Energy Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment 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 Hermes Family Foundation Co Gwendolyn H 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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.