Hermione Foundation
New York, NY · EIN 13-3673826. Reported 116 grants totalling $4,697,695 to 67 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Hermione Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $33,500; the smallest was $250 and the largest $569,250. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Opera | New York, NY | $1,628,005 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New York Philharmonic | New York, NY | $597,420 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Alumnae Association of Barnard College | New York, NY | $537,100 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Perlman Music Program | New York, NY | $341,375 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Barnard College | New York, NY | $316,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Food Bank Nyc | Hartsdale, NY | $210,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | Boston, MA | $205,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| City Meals of Wheels | Durham, NC | $130,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lincoln Center Inc | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Teachers College of Columbia University | New York, NY | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Breakthrough New York Inc | New York, NY | $91,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Citymeals on Wheels | New York, NY | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Carnegie Hall Society | New York, NY | $49,906 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community Food Bank of Nj | Hillside, NJ | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Westside Campaign Against Hunger | New York, NY | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Association to Benefit Children | New York, NY | $26,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Central Synagogue | New York, NY | $20,306 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Michael Wolk Heart Foundation | New York, NY | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Seeing Eye | Morristown, NJ | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Merrick Jewish Center | Merrick, NY | $18,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jazz at Lincoln Center | New York, NY | $13,660 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Feeding Westchester | Elmsford, NY | $12,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Prison Book Program | Quincy, MA | $11,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Girls Educational & Mentoring Services | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Harvey School | Katonah, NY | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Glynwood Farm | Cold Spring, NY | $7,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Stephen & Christine Schwarzman Animal Medical Center | New York, NY | $6,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Caramoor Center for Music | Kayonah, NY | $5,800 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Uja-Ny Israel Emergencyfund | New York, NY | $5,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lincoln Center for Prforming Arts | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center | New York, NY | $4,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Safe Horizons | New York, NY | $4,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Foreign Policy Association | New York, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Masses Foundation | Brooklyn, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Schwarzman Animal Medical Center | New York, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Teak Fellowship | New York, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 92ND Street Y | New York, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Coalition for Homeless-Back to School | New York, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Feeding Ny State | Albany, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Greyston Foundation | Yonkers, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lifebridge Health | Edgewood, MD | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Grace Institute | New York, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Greater Boston Food Bank | Boston, MA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nypl-Ny Institute Humanity | New York, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ready to Succeed | Santa Monica, CA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | New York, NY | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Thurgood Marshall College Fund | Washington, DC | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Animal Medical Center | New York, NY | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boston Symphony Orchestratanglewood | New York, NY | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cnote Foundation | Durham, NC | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dia Art Foundation | New York, NY | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Education Superhighway | San Francisco, CA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| First Book | Moorestown, NJ | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fisher Center Alzheimer Research Foundation | New York, NY | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, NY | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Museum of Modern Art | New York, NY | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tanglewood | Lenox, MA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Bowery Mission | New York, NY | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Project Ezra | New York, NY | $1,040 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Blythedale Children's Hospital | Valhalla, NY | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ramapo for Children | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Comprehensive Youth Development | New York, NY | $750 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Aidslife Cycle | San Francisco, CA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| In Tandem Cycling | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| US Blind Tandem Cycling Connection | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Partners in Health | Boston, MA | $467 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City Harvest Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $466 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
28 of 67 (42%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 52%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Metropolitan Opera
TO FURTHER RECIPIENTS' PUBLICLY STATED OBJECTIVES - Alumnae Association of Barnard College
TO FURTHER RECIPIENTS'PUBLICLY STATED OBJECTIVES
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 62 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 28 | $954,634 | $4,575 |
| 2022 | 32 | $1,463,399 | $5,000 |
| 2023 | 33 | $700,405 | $5,000 |
| 2024 | 23 | $1,579,257 | $5,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 91% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Hermione Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 35 East 75TH Street, New York, NY, 10021. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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