· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k53 grants · $218k
- $10k–50k54 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k12 grants · $771k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EVSC Foundation Inc | $115,000 |
| University of Southern Indiana Foun | $107,000 |
| Evansville Area Tennis Patrons | $82,000 |
| Dream Center Evansville Inc | $60,000 |
| Vanderburgh County Humane Society | $55,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Evansville | $52,000 |
| United Way of Southwestern Indiana | $50,000 |
| Youth First Inc | $50,000 |
| Childrens Center for Dance Educatio | $50,000 |
| Tri-State Food Bank Inc | $50,000 |
| Ivy Tech Foundation | $50,000 |
| Community Foundation Alliance | $50,000 |
| Young Mens Christian Association | $43,200 |
| Sisters of St Benedict of Ferdinand | $40,000 |
| Golfmoor Baseball Association | $37,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $552k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
132 repeat relationships — 94 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $396k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- EFEVSC FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $687k · revenue +97%
- YFYOUTH FIRST6× · 2020–2025 · $395k · revenue +60%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EVANSVILLE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $266k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- ELEnglish Language Instituteone grant, 2020 · $40k
- MEMARIAN EDUCATIONAL OUTREACHone grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue +17%
- PEPublic Education Foundation of Evanone grant, 2021 · $26k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To help enhance southwestern indiana's culture, image, economy & quality of life through the attraction, promotion and development of family oriented and national sporting events.
Promote business growth and activities in evansville, indiana.
We believe citywide flourishing happens when every person in the city flourishes, and we pursue the flourishing of every person by bringing people together to solve our citys (Evansville, IN) most pressing needs.
Promote and educate indiana residents on the state's economic success and positive gains.
Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…
Our mission is to build long-term, life-changing relationships with Indianapolis urban youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community
Educational
The evansville regional economic partnership serves its members and leads the region by fostering an innovative business, educational, cultural and entrepreneurial environment that excels in a global economy.
The international violin competition of indianapolis (ivci) recognizes, rewards and promotes the world's finest young classical violinists and encourages understanding, appreciation and support of the violin repertoire by a large and…
The organization was created to foster national amateur sports competitions by operating the heckel road sports complex in vanderburgh county, indiana on behalf of the evansville-vanderburgh county convention and visitors commission, a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evsc Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Clayton Roberson Family Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
126 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 126 of the 226 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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