· Private foundation
Hermione Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $155k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BARNARD COLLEGE | $1,000,000 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $550,713 |
| PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM | $397,069 |
| FOOD BANK NYC | $80,000 |
| CITY MEALS OF WHEELS | $75,000 |
| ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN | $41,500 |
| NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC | $30,000 |
| CARNEGIE HALL SOCIETY | $20,414 |
| JAFCO | $18,000 |
| WESTSIDE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER | $15,000 |
| FEEDING WESTCHESTER | $10,000 |
| PBS | $10,000 |
| SWEET DREAMMAKERS | $7,500 |
| 92ND STREET Y | $6,100 |
| THE SEEING EYE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 65% 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 +32% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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
BARNARD COLLEGE7× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +60%- TPTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +21%
- TPTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $906k · revenue +185%
Funded once
- CCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELSone grant, 2022 · $65k · revenue +1%
GIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +62%- TJTHE JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND RUBINSTEINone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Side Center for Community Life and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
75 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. 75 of the 113 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 BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
- Who funds The Carnegie Hall Society Inc ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARVEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds The Michael Wolk Heart Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREYSTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FORGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds PRISON BOOK PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds RICHARD TUCKER MUSIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JACK MARTIN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Sweet Dream Makers Inc ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Pinkerton Foundation · The Rockefeller Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Robin Hood Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The New York Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Silicon Valley Community Foundation
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 Hermione 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Forge Foundation Inc — 27% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Lifebridge Health Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 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.
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