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Charles a Hamilton Charitable Trust

To provide financial support to selected 501(c)(3) organiztions in order to accomplish specific charitable goals within the community of calhoun county, alabama and its surronding areas.

$215k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Itemized grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$204k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$32,700
Largest grant, FY2024
$54,500
Organizations funded a year
7 to 9
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$4.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Charles a Hamilton Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$204k0%
FY20237$239k0%
FY20227$232k0%
FY20217$217k0%
FY20209$209k0%
FY20199$208k0%
FY20189$210k0%
FY20179$498kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$1.1MHuman Services$586kReligion$205kEducation$55kPhilanthropy$23k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Young Men's Christian Association of Calhoun County Inc$513,69587%
Boys and Girls Club of East Central Alabama Inc$513,69588%
Greater Alabama Council Inc Boy Scouts of America$308,21881%
Girl Scouts of North Central Alabama$308,21882%
First United Methodist Church$205,4788n/a
YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly Inc$71,91780%
Birmingham-Southern College$55,10470%
United Way of East Central Alabama Inc$22,50241%
Boys & Girls Clubs of America$16,87540%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Charles a Hamilton Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Calhoun County Inc: $513,695 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of East Central Alabama Inc: $513,695 over 8y, 7.9% of budgetGreater Alabama Council Inc Boy Scouts of America: $308,218 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetGirl Scouts of North Central Alabama: $308,218 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetYMCA Blue Ridge Assembly Inc: $71,917 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBirmingham-Southern College: $55,104 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of East Central Alabama Inc: $22,502 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of America: $16,875 over 4y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Alabama Power Foundat…Community Foundation …Publix Super Markets …Amazonsmile Foundation
Alabama Power Foundation IncAL15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Northeast Alabama · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Charles a Hamilton Charitable Trust

How much does Charles a Hamilton Charitable Trust give?
Charles a Hamilton Charitable Trust reported 6 itemized grants totaling $203,830, out of $214,730 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Charles a Hamilton Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (57%), Human Services (29%), Religion (10%).
Who are Charles a Hamilton Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Young Men's Christian Association of Calhoun County Inc ($514k), Boys and Girls Club of East Central Alabama Inc ($514k), Greater Alabama Council Inc Boy Scouts of America ($308k).
Does Charles a Hamilton Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Charles a Hamilton Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alabama Power Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of Northeast Alabama, Publix Super Markets Charities Inc.
Where is Charles a Hamilton Charitable Trust based?
Charles a Hamilton Charitable Trust is based in AL.

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 9 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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