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Hermes Foundation Inc

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$991k
Granted FY2021
4
Grants FY2021
4
Organizations funded FY2018
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100% of Hermes Foundation Inc’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
’18
0
’19
0
’20
0
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2021
$247,768
Largest grant, FY2021
$247,769
States reached, FY2021
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Philanthropy$1.6MArts & Culture$1kEducation$1kHuman Services$1kInternational$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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About Hermes Foundation Inc

How much does Hermes Foundation Inc give?
Hermes Foundation Inc reported 4 grants totaling $991,073 in its FY2021 IRS filing.
What does Hermes Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2018, its largest causes are Philanthropy (100%), Arts & Culture (0%), Education (0%).
Who are Hermes Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2018: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($1k), New England Village Inc ($1k), Essex Library Association Inc ($1k).
Does Hermes Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Hermes Foundation Inc based?
Hermes Foundation Inc is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 5 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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