Indiana · Private foundation
Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc
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.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 119
- Grants FY2025
- 109
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $115,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 78 to 109
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $347k 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 | 118 | $2.1M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 109 | $1.9M | 28% |
| FY2023 | 93 | $2.3M | 22% |
| FY2022 | 88 | $1.3M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 89 | $1.2M | 47% |
| FY2020 | 78 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wesselman Nature Society Inc | $825,000 | 2 | 33% |
| Evsc Foundation Inc | $686,870 | 6 | 6% |
| Youth First | $394,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Evansville Inc | $266,250 | 5 | 3% |
| Children's Center for Dance Education | $244,500 | 6 | 30% |
| Vanderburgh County Humane Society Inc | $242,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Tri-State Food Bank | $225,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Dream Center Evansville | $201,250 | 6 | 4% |
| Ivy Tech Foundation Inc | $184,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Evansville African American Museum | $176,125 | 6 | 17% |
Show all 145 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 78 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 112 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Community Foundation Alliance Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Koch Foundation Inc · Welborn Baptist Foundation Inc · Evansville Endowment Fund Inc · The Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Fifth Third · Bussing-Koch Foundation Inc · West Side Nut Club Inc · Gerling Family Foundation Inc · Deaconess Hospital Inc · Holiday Management Foundation · Braun Family Foundation Inc co Jim Burger ONB Trust Co
How this is measured
Compare Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc
- How much does Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc give?
- Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc reported 119 grants totaling $2,104,550 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 78 and 109 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Youth Development (13%), Environment (11%).
- Who are Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Wesselman Nature Society Inc ($825k), Evsc Foundation Inc ($687k), Youth First ($395k).
- Does Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc 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 Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Alliance Inc, Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc, Koch Foundation Inc.
- Where is Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc based?
- Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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