FundersNew York

Hermance a D Tw Scholarships

Buffalo, NY · EIN 23-7678037. Reported 103 grants totalling $306,450 to 41 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,000median grant
$306,450granted, 2021-2024
41organizations funded
81%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,271,646assets, latest filing

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. Hermance a D Tw Scholarships did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $2,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,500 and $3,500; the smallest was $500 and the largest $19,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
10 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
84 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
5 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
4 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Penn State UniversityUniversity Park, PA$54,585442024
Pennsylvania College of TechnologyPhiladelphia, PA$19,000442024
University of Pittsburgh Student Payment CenterPittsburgh, PA$17,445442024
Pennslyvania State UniversityWilliamsport, PA$15,750112021
Rochester Institute of TechnologyRochester, NY$15,750442024
Lycoming CollegeWilliamsport, PA$15,640442024
Lehigh University Bursars OfficeBethlehem, PA$14,750442024
Elizabethtown CollegeElizabethtown, PA$12,000332023
Messiah CollegeGrantham, PA$9,000442024
Bloomsburg UniversityBloomsburg, PA$8,500442024
Lock Haven UniversityLock Haven, PA$8,195332024
Duquesne UniversityPittsburgh, PA$8,000222022
Bucknell UniversityLewisburg, PA$7,500332024
Eastman School of MusicRochester, NY$7,500332023
Drexel UniversityPhiladelphia, PA$6,500332023
University of Central FloridaOrlando, FL$6,500332023
Gannon UniversityErie, PA$6,250332023
Catholic University of AmericaWashington, DC$6,000442024
Susquehanna UniversitySelingsgrove, PA$6,000322022
University of Pennsylvania Outside Scholarship OfficesPhiladelphia, PA$6,000332023
University of ScrantonScranton, PA$6,000332023
Carnegie Mellon University Fbo Brynn BroaddusPittsburgh, PA$5,445222024
Unc CharlotteCharlotte, NC$4,500332024
University of the Arts Student Financial ServicesPhiladelphia, PA$4,500332023
York College of Pennsylvania Fbo Owen GairYork, PA$4,445222024
Point Park UniversityPittsburgh, PA$4,000222022
Albright CollegeReading, PA$3,750332024
Liberty UniversityLynchburg, VA$3,750332024
The Pennsylvania State University Fbo Dayvon BoydUniversity Park, PA$2,695112023
Chatham University Fbo Countess LingardPittsburgh, PA$2,250222024
Florida Institute of Technology Office of Student AccountingMelbourne, FL$2,250222024
New York UniversityNew York, NY$2,000112021
Drew UniversityMadison, NJ$1,500112021
Florida Institute of TechnologyMelbourne, FL$1,500112022
Temple UniversityPhiladelphia, PA$1,500112021
Indiana University of PaIndiana, PA$1,000222022
Meme Jeffries School of LawPittsburgh, PA$1,000112024
Penn State Fbo Lily WhippleHazelton, PA$1,000112024
Penn State University Park Fbo Spencer SponhouseUniversity Park, PA$1,000112024
Moore College of Art and DesignPhiladelphia, PA$750112024
Pennsylvania State UniversityWilliamsport, PA$750112021

30 of 41 (73%) 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 81%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. 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 kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 54 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
54 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202127$80,750$2,500
202227$86,000$2,000
202327$77,005$2,000
202422$62,695$1,500

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. 83% of this one's giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Pennsylvania
$255K
New York
$25K
Florida
$10K
District of Columbia
$6K
North Carolina
$4K
Virginia
$4K
New Jersey
$2K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund16 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc16 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc16 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program15 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America13 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc13 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Pennsylvania.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 Hermance a D Tw Scholarships'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: Po Box 1504, Buffalo, NY, 14240. 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.

EIN 23-7678037 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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