Nebraska · Private foundation
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.
- $93k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $23,674
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations The Spotts Trust Charles Hermes Trustee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $74k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $67k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $73k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $83k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $73k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $64k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $67k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $61k | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hastings College | $90,836 | 9 | 0% |
| Crossroads Center Inc | $15,650 | 9 | 0% |
| Central Community College Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Casa of South Central Nebraska | $7,900 | 9 | 0% |
| Hastings Symphony Orchestra | $7,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Senior Action Inc | $3,700 | 9 | 0% |
| Spouse Abusesexual Assault Crisis Center | $2,300 | 4 | 0% |
| Hastings Museum Foundation Inc | $2,050 | 6 | 0% |
| Threads of Grace Inc | $1,400 | 5 | n/a |
| Start Over Rover | $1,300 | 9 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hastings College | $90,836 | 9 | 0% |
| Crossroads Center Inc | $15,650 | 9 | 0% |
| Central Community College Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Casa of South Central Nebraska | $7,900 | 9 | 0% |
| Hastings Symphony Orchestra | $7,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Senior Action Inc | $3,700 | 9 | 0% |
| Spouse Abusesexual Assault Crisis Center | $2,300 | 4 | 0% |
| Hastings Museum Foundation Inc | $2,050 | 6 | 0% |
| Threads of Grace Inc | $1,400 | 5 | n/a |
| Start Over Rover | $1,300 | 9 | 0% |
| The Listening Room Inc Dba - the Lark & the Listening Room | $1,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Hastings Food Pantry Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Mentoring Works | $800 | 8 | 0% |
| Our Place After School Care Inc | $500 | 3 | 0% |
| Hastings Public Schools Foundation | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Special Childrens Fund Inc | $400 | 3 | n/a |
| Hearts & Hands Against Hunger of Hastings | $350 | 3 | 0% |
| Hastings Scottish Rite Foundation | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($475k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Spotts Trust Charles Hermes Trustee supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About The Spotts Trust Charles Hermes Trustee
- How much does The Spotts Trust Charles Hermes Trustee give?
- The Spotts Trust Charles Hermes Trustee reported 25 grants totaling $92,695 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Spotts Trust Charles Hermes Trustee fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (33%), Religion (26%), Philanthropy (18%).
- Who are The Spotts Trust Charles Hermes Trustee's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hastings College ($91k), Crossroads Center Inc ($16k), Central Community College Foundation Inc ($15k).
- Does The Spotts Trust Charles Hermes Trustee fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Spotts Trust Charles Hermes Trustee 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Spotts Trust Charles Hermes Trustee?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hastings Community Foundation Inc, Johnson-Wissing Family Foundation Inc, Kitty M Perkins Foundation.
- Where is The Spotts Trust Charles Hermes Trustee based?
- The Spotts Trust Charles Hermes Trustee is based in NE.
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