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· Public charity

Denny Hamlin Foundation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to raise funds for donation to other charitable organizations, particularly those organizations that provide comfort and help to terminally ill children.

$23k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0197% 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$654kHealth$338kPhilanthropy$221kReligion$39kAnimals$25kEducation$25kHousing & Shelter$11kHuman Services$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $6,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $23,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $17,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$150k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUBBA WALLACE LIVE TO BE DIFFERENT$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ROWAN-CABARRUS YMCA: $8k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

PA
RI
WV
TN
NC
SC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 6 repeat orgs$263k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
9

Total granted

$1.1M
$257k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+26%

Still filing today

83%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
HealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyReligionAnimalsEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MU
    MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2023 · $260k · revenue +107%
  • MR
    Motor Racing Outreach Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $23k · revenue +38%
  • UY
    URBAN YOUTH RACING SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • YL
    YOUNG LIFEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $105k · revenue +38%
  • SK
    SAFE KIDS WORLDWIDE
    one grant, 2018 · $42k · revenue +13%
  • PH
    PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +26%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
2
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
3
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
4
Evernham Family - Racing for a Reason
Philanthropy
5
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
6
The Presbyterian Hospital

In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…

Health
7
Carolina Medicorp Enterprises Inc

Mission novant health exists to improve the health of our communities, one person at a time. vision we, the novant health team, will deliver the most remarkable patient experience, in every dimension, every time. values -compassion: we…

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8
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital Inc

Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…

Health
9
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
10
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
11
North Carolina Baptist Hospital

See schedule o for continuationnorth carolina baptist hospital (at times also referred to as the "hospital or "ncbh or "the filing organization") is an integral part of atrium health wake forest baptist (ahwfb), a preeminent learning…

Health
12
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medical University of South Carolina Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Sti Cares Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAROLINA STUDIO CORPORATION: $529,348 · Youth DevelopmentCAROLINA STUDIO CORPORATIONYOUNG LIFE: $104,842 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFEMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $260,000 · HealthMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH …SAFE KIDS WORLDWIDE: $42,180 · HealthSAFE KIDS WORLDWIDEPRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthPRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDA…+1 more: $11,000 · HealthSTI CARES FOUNDATION: $209,046 · PhilanthropySTI CARES FOUNDATI…+2 more: $12,400 · Philanthropy+2 moreMotor Racing Outreach Inc: $23,000 · ReligionGAME PLAN FOR LIFE INC: $15,500 · ReligionCHARLESTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,458 · OtherWider Path Home Foundation: $11,000 · OtherROWAN-CABARRUS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $7,500 · OtherRESCUE RANCH INC: $25,000 · AnimalsURBAN YOUTH RACING SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · Education
Youth Development$634,190Health$338,180Philanthropy$221,446Religion$38,500Other$48,958Animals$25,000Education$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAROLINA STUDIO CORPORATION: $529,348 over 6y, 88% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $260,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSTI CARES FOUNDATION: $209,046 over 2y, 46% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $104,842 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE KIDS WORLDWIDE: $42,180 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRESCUE RANCH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMotor Racing Outreach Inc: $23,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetURBAN YOUTH RACING SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetGAME PLAN FOR LIFE INC: $15,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWider Path Home Foundation: $11,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROWAN-CABARRUS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOTORSPORTS CHARITIES INC: $6,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBUBBA WALLACE LIVE TO BE DIFFERENT FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Foundation for the Ca…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Foundation for the CarolinasNC12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Denny Hamlin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Denny Hamlin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Safe Kids Worldwide: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Denny Hamlin Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Denny Hamlin Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 17 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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