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The Spotts Trust Charles Hermes Trustee
Its FY2025 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of THE SPOTTS TRUST CHARLES HERMES TRUSTEE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $23,674 |
| SAINT MARK'S PRO-CATHEDRAL | $23,374 |
| HASTINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $18,527 |
| HASTINGS COLLEGE | $9,270 |
| YMCA | $8,000 |
| UNITED HARVEST MOBILE FOOD PANTRY | $1,500 |
| CROSSROADS CENTER RESCUE MISSION | $1,500 |
| CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES - FOOD FOR THOUGHT OPEN TABLE PROGRAM | $1,250 |
| HASTINGS FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| HASTINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS - FOOD PANTRY | $750 |
| SENIOR ACTION INC | $500 |
| HASTINGS MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $500 |
| THREADS OF GRACE | $500 |
| UNITED WAY | $300 |
| YWCA | $250 |
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, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- HCHASTINGS COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +11%
- CCCROSSROADS CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +115%
- CCCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2022 · $15k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- HPHASTINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS - PERFORMING ARTSone grant, 2022 · $3k
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $500
- HPHASTINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +195%
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.
None
The mission of the hastings museum is to bring to life the natural and cultural history of hastings, adams county and the great plains of nebraska through the use of educational programs, exhibits and films.
To promote the city of hastings, nebraska.
The hastings college foundation creates, develops, and grows stakeholder relationships. our team nurtures these relationships by enhancing the sense of belonging to the hastings college family. we secure resources necessary to enable our…
The foundation's mission is to encourage, promote and foster catholic education in hastings, minnesota and surrounding communities.
To preserve and maintain the masonic temple in hastings, ne.
Public library services
Operate local animal shelter while providing and developing volunteer and educational programs that promote responsible pet ownership.
The mission is to empower all supporters of small town values to preserve, protect, and improve the historic hastings town district and surroundings communities.
To support the first presbyterian church of hastings, nebraska.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hastings Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Our Place After School Care Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 36 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 HASTINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SENIOR ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds SPOUSE ABUSESEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds START OVER ROVER ↗
- Who funds THE LISTENING ROOM INC DBA - THE LARK & THE LISTENING ROOM ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds MENTORING WORKS ↗
- Who funds Our Place After School Care Inc ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hearts & Hands Against Hunger of Hastings ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Hastings Community Foundation Inc · Johnson-Wissing Family Foundation Inc · Kitty M Perkins Foundation · LeRoy Thom Jean Thom and T-L Foundation · United Way of South Central Nebraska Inc · The Graff Charitable Foundation Inc Co P Mark Graff · Land O'Lakes Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Beirow Family Foundation Inc · Sunnyside Inc · Greater Grand Island Community Foundation · Nebraska 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 The Spotts Trust Charles Hermes Trustee 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.
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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