How much does The Hermes Foundation give?

The Hermes Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $75,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The Hermes Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (63%), Religion (20%), Civil Rights (5%).

Who are The Hermes Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Cleveland Museum of Art ($99k), The Royal Oak Foundation Inc ($22k), Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc ($10k).

Does The Hermes Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Hermes Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Hermes Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation.

Where is The Hermes Foundation based?

The Hermes Foundation is based in OH.

Foundation Dossiers

Ohio · Private foundation

The Hermes Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$76k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 27
Grants FY2025: 16
Organizations funded FY2024: 50%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $1,200
Largest grant, FY2025: $29,000
Organizations funded a year: 14 to 16; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 7
Total assets, FY2025: $831k
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Hermes Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureAnimalsCivil RightsEducationHealthFood & NutritionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	27	$76k	48%
FY2024	16	$49k	50%
FY2023	14	$39k	36%
FY2022	14	$23k	36%
FY2021	16	$31k	31%
FY2020	14	$32k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$157kReligion$49kCivil Rights$13kInternational$8kHealth$5kAnimals$4kFood & Nutrition$3kHousing & Shelter$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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
Cleveland Museum of Art	$99,000	6	0%
The Royal Oak Foundation Inc	$21,500	3	0%
Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Literary Cleveland	$8,000	4	0%
City of Asylum	$5,500	2	0%
Cleveland Chamber Choir	$5,200	3	2%
Ideastream	$5,200	3	0%
MedGlobal Inc	$4,500	3	0%
Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society	$4,000	3	0%
Ursuline Piazza	$3,500	4	1%

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All grantees of The Hermes Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Cleveland Museum of Art	$99,000	6	0%
The Royal Oak Foundation Inc	$21,500	3	0%
Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Literary Cleveland	$8,000	4	0%
City of Asylum	$5,500	2	0%
Cleveland Chamber Choir	$5,200	3	2%
Ideastream	$5,200	3	0%
MedGlobal Inc	$4,500	3	0%
Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society	$4,000	3	0%
Ursuline Piazza	$3,500	4	1%
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc	$3,000	2	0%
Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc	$3,000	2	0%
Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless	$3,000	1	n/a
Cleveland Restoration Society Inc	$2,500	5	0%
Music and Art at Trinity Cathedral Inc	$2,100	4	1%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc	$2,000	2	0%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc	$2,000	1	0%
St James Presbyterian Church	$1,200	1	n/a
The Decorative Arts Trust	$1,050	4	0%
Lead for Earth	$1,000	1	n/a
John Carroll University	$1,000	1	0%
Shaker Lakes Regional Nature Center Dba Nature Center at Shaker Lakes	$750	3	0%
Tappan Lake Volunteer Fire Department Inc	$500	1	n/a
Doan Brook Watershed Partnership	$500	1	n/a
The Cleveland Animal Protective League	$500	1	0%
Shaker Historical Society	$425	2	0%
American Folk Art Museum	$250	1	0%
Argonaut	$250	1	0%
Norwegian-American Historical Assoc	$250	1	0%
Hospice of the Western Reserve Inc	$100	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($59k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Hermes Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

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How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Hermes Foundation

How much does The Hermes Foundation give?: The Hermes Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $75,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Hermes Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (63%), Religion (20%), Civil Rights (5%).
Who are The Hermes Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Cleveland Museum of Art ($99k), The Royal Oak Foundation Inc ($22k), Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc ($10k).
Does The Hermes Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Hermes Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Hermes Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation.
Where is The Hermes Foundation based?: The Hermes Foundation is based in OH.