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The Spotts Trust Charles Hermes Trustee at a glance

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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.

$93k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$257kReligion$198kPhilanthropy$142kEducation$110kFood & Nutrition$21kHousing & Shelter$17kArts & Culture$13kCrime & Legal$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THREADS OF GRACE$500
SENIOR ACTION INC$500
HASTINGS MUSEUM FOUNDATION$500
UNITED WAY$300
ENCOURAGE ADVOCACY CENTER$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA: $800 → 11%MARYLAND LIVING CENTER: $700 → 11%SPOUSAL ABUSESEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS CENTER: $700 → 11%CASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA: $600 → 11%SPOUSAL ABUSESEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS CENTER: $600 → 11%CASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA: $600 → 11%CASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA: $600 → 11%CASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA: $500 → 11%MARYLAND LIVING CENTER: $500 → 11%MARYLAND LIVING CENTER: $500 → 11%SPOUSAL ABUSESEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS CENTER: $500 → 11%MARYLAND LIVING CENTER: $500 → 11%CASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA: $500 → 11%MARYLAND LIVING CENTER: $500 → 11%SPOUSAL ABUSESEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS CENTER: $500 → 11%MARYLAND LIVING CENTER: $300 → 11%CASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA: $300 → 11%MARYLAND LIVING CENTER: $250 → 11%CASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA: $250 → 11%CASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA: $200 → 11%MARYLAND LIVING CENTER: $200 → 11%MARYLAND LIVING CENTER: $100 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$622k · 29 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
5

Total granted

$622k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+195%

Still filing today

45%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HC
    HASTINGS COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +11%
  • CC
    CROSSROADS CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +115%
  • CC
    CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $15k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • HP
    HASTINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS - PERFORMING ARTS
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • GS
    GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY
    one grant, 2018 · $500
  • HP
    HASTINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +195%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Hastings Library Foundation

None

Education
2
Hastings Museum

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.

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3
Hastings Area Chamber of Commerce

To promote the city of hastings, nebraska.

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4
The Hastings Foundation
Education
5
Hastings College Foundation

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…

Education
6
Hastings Catholic Education Found

The foundation's mission is to encourage, promote and foster catholic education in hastings, minnesota and surrounding communities.

Religion
7
Hastings Masonic Temple Association

To preserve and maintain the masonic temple in hastings, ne.

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8
Hastings Catholic Schools Trust
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9
Hastings Public Library

Public library services

Education
10
Hastings Animal Shelter Association Inc Dba Heartland Pet Connection

Operate local animal shelter while providing and developing volunteer and educational programs that promote responsible pet ownership.

Animals
11
Hasting Main Street Inc

The mission is to empower all supporters of small town values to preserve, protect, and improve the historic hastings town district and surroundings communities.

Community Improvement
12
First Presbyterian Church Foundation

To support the first presbyterian church of hastings, nebraska.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hastings Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $197,088 · OtherSALVATION ARMYSAINT MARK'S PRO-CATHEDRAL: $193,588 · OtherSAINT MARK'S PRO-CATHEDRALYMCA: $42,450 · OtherYMCA+21 more: $47,100 · Other+21 moreHASTINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $141,290 · PhilanthropyHASTINGS COMMUNITY F…HASTINGS COLLEGE: $90,836 · EducationHASTINGS COLLEGECENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationCENTRAL COMMUNIT…SENIOR ACTION INC: $3,700 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationCROSSROADS CENTER INC: $15,650 · Housing & ShelterCASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA: $7,900 · Human ServicesSPOUSE ABUSESEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS CENTER: $2,300 · Human ServicesHASTINGS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $7,000 · Arts & CultureHASTINGS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $2,050 · Arts & CultureTHE LISTENING ROOM INC DBA - THE LARK & THE LISTENING ROOM: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSTART OVER ROVER: $1,300 · Animals
Other$480,226Philanthropy$141,290Education$109,636Housing & Shelter$15,650Human Services$10,200Arts & Culture$10,050Animals$1,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHASTINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $141,290 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetHASTINGS COLLEGE: $90,836 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS CENTER INC: $15,650 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA: $7,900 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHASTINGS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $7,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetSENIOR ACTION INC: $3,700 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSPOUSE ABUSESEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS CENTER: $2,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHASTINGS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $2,050 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSTART OVER ROVER: $1,300 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LISTENING ROOM INC DBA - THE LARK & THE LISTENING ROOM: $1,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHASTINGS FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMENTORING WORKS: $800 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOur Place After School Care Inc: $500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHASTINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHearts & Hands Against Hunger of Hastings: $350 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHASTINGS SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

Hastings Community Fo…Johnson-Wissing Famil…Kitty M Perkins Found…LeRoy Thom Jean Thom …United Way of South C…The Graff Charitable …Land O'Lakes Foundati…First Interstate Banc…Beirow Family Foundat…Sunnyside IncGreater Grand Island …Nebraska Community Fo…
Hastings Community Foundation IncNE30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Spotts Trust Charles Hermes Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Spotts Trust Charles Hermes Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to The Spotts Trust Charles Hermes Trustee?

    Find your warmest path to The Spotts Trust Charles Hermes Trustee through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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