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Donald D Hammill Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$932k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$932k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.6MHuman Services$1.2MHealth$841kHousing & Shelter$755kFood & Nutrition$462kCrime & Legal$340kEducation$287kCommunity Improvement$206kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$932,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DONALD D HAMMILL FOUNDATION DONOR$932,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $612k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOLS: $24k → 10%OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOLS: $15k → 10%OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOLS: $15k → 10%OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOLS: $15k → 10%AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $46k → 10%AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $22k → 10%AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $20k → 10%AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $16k → 10%AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $15k → 10%THE YMCA OF AUSTIN: $12k → 10%THE YMCA OF AUSTIN: $12k → 10%AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $11k → 10%YMCA OF AUSTIN: $10k → 10%YMCA OF AUSTIN: $8k → 10%TRINITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $11k → 10%TRINITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $9k → 10%TRINITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $8k → 10%TRINITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $3k → 10%MULTICULTURAL REFUGEE COALITION: $11k → 10%MULTICULTURAL REFUGEE COALITION: $11k → 10%MULTICULTURAL REFUGEE COALITION: $8k → 10%MULTICULTURAL REFUGEE COALITION: $8k → 10%MULTICULTURAL REFUGEE COALITION: $8k → 10%MULTICULTURAL REFUGEE COALITION: $8k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%THERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS INC: $3k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%THERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS INC: $2k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $8k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $8k → 10%AGING SERVICES COUNCIL OF CENTRAL: $4k → 10%WONDERS & WORRIES: $11k → 10%WONDERS & WORRIES: $9k → 10%WONDERS & WORRIES: $8k → 10%WONDERS AND WORRIES: $8k → 10%WONDERS & WORRIES: $8k → 10%OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOLS: $20k → 10%WONDERS AND WORRIES: $8k → 10%OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOLS: $15k → 10%YMCA OF AUSTIN: $10k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $25k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $23k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $21k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $20k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $20k → 10%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $15k → 10%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.9M · 88 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against -74% for those funded once.

88 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 87 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

88
12

Total granted

$6.9M
$116k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
-74%

Still filing today

70%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TS
    THE SAFE ALLIANCE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $134k · revenue +66%
  • AG
    AUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $133k · revenue +19%
  • FE
    FAMILY ELDERCARE INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $124k · revenue +199%

Funded once

  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS CENTRAL TEXAS
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • HA
    HOSPICE AUSTIN (CHISTOPHER HOUSE)
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • AS
    AIDS SERVICES OF AUSTIN
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
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
Austin Street Center

The mission of austin street center is to provide emergency shelter and related services to the homeless. programs provide crisis intervention, substance abuse awareness information and opportunities to improve present life situations to…

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2
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
3
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
4
Austin Affordable Housing Corporation

To ensure and preserve quality, affordable housing opportunities for low- to moderate-income families in austin as well as provide financial literacy and homeownership opportunities.

Housing & Shelter
5
HomeAid Austin Inc

Engage in building procted to provide emergency shelters, transitional housing, and permanent housing while offering job skills training and support to help residents move toward self-sufficiency.

Employment
6
Central Texas Community Health Centers

Communitycare operates 25 health center locations offering comprehensive primary care services for the entire family including pediatrics, behavioral health services, and dental care.

Health
7
Austin City Lutherans

Address food and housing insecurity for Austin-area low income families.

Religion
8
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
9
Texas Legal Services Center Inc

Texas Legal Services Center is a nonprofit legal aid organization whose mission is to serve the undeserved by making civil justice accessible to every Texan--no matter their ability to earn. We're a coalition of attorneys, paralegals, pro…

Crime & Legal
10
Good Work Austin

Good Work Austin's mission is to foster healthy careers in the local food and beverage industry through professional development and advocacy for more equitable practices.

Public Benefit
11
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

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12
East Texas Community Clinic Inc

To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Homeless Inc; the most unlike its peers is Therapy Pet Pals of Texas. 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

65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 100 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/65
Grantees still filing
48/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONALD D HAMMILL FOUNDATION DONOR: $2,528,000 · OtherDONALD D HAMMILL FOUNDATION DONOR+67 more: $2,663,645 · Other+67 moreAUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY: $133,497 · Human ServicesAUSTIN GR…FAMILY ELDERCARE INC: $123,750 · Human ServicesFAMILY EL…OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOL: $103,950 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR…HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesHELPING H…THE REFUGEE COLLECTIVE: $53,000 · Human ServicesTHE REFUG…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN: $51,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN…Wonders & Worries Inc: $51,000 · Human ServicesWonders &…TRINITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $29,500 · Human Services+1 more: $11,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $112,500 · HealthBREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER: $49,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $47,500 · HealthAIDS SERVICES OF AUSTIN INC: $46,250 · HealthTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB: $30,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC: $20,000 · HealthAustin Clubhouse Inc: $15,000 · HealthFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $106,025 · Housing & ShelterTEXAS RAMP PROJECT: $77,250 · Housing & ShelterFront Steps Inc: $69,500 · Housing & ShelterJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $41,000 · Housing & ShelterEL BUEN PASTOR EARLY CHILDHOOD Development Center: $70,500 · EducationLITERACY COALITION OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $59,000 · EducationVELA: $48,000 · EducationSEEDLING FOUNDATION: $44,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH: $33,000 · Education+1 more: $8,500 · EducationCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $107,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS AND MORE INC: $105,750 · Food & NutritionBetter ATX: $68,000 · Community ImprovementTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AUSTIN INC: $55,000 · Community ImprovementGuadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation: $36,250 · Community ImprovementSAHELI: $10,500 · Community Improvement
Other$5,191,645Human Services$612,197Health$320,750Housing & Shelter$293,775Education$263,000Food & Nutrition$212,750Community Improvement$169,750

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 budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE: $134,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY: $133,497 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetFAMILY ELDERCARE INC: $123,750 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $112,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $107,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $106,025 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AND MORE INC: $105,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN DOOR PRESCHOOL: $103,950 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetBlackland Community Development Inc: $103,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetVINCARE SERVICES OF AUSTIN FOUNDATION: $98,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCARITAS OF AUSTIN: $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCASA MARIANELLA INC: $79,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMANOS DE CRISTO INC: $77,250 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS RAMP PROJECT: $77,250 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $72,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTRUTH BE TOLD: $71,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetEL BUEN PASTOR EARLY CHILDHOOD Development Center: $70,500 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetFront Steps Inc: $69,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBetter ATX: $68,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCHRISTI CENTER: $64,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetAUSTIN YOUTH & COMMUNITY FARM INC DBA URBAN ROOTS: $63,025 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE CAPITAL AREA: $61,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetVolunteer Healthcare Clinic Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $60,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetLITERACY COALITION OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $59,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER: $57,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Cancer Association: $56,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for Survivors of Torture: $55,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AUSTIN INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE REFUGEE COLLECTIVE: $53,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCatholic Charities of Central Texas: $52,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN: $51,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWonders & Worries Inc: $51,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetBREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER: $49,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY: $49,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN: $49,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetVELA: $48,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $47,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAIDS SERVICES OF AUSTIN INC: $46,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSEEDLING FOUNDATION: $44,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetAUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $42,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Gateways: $42,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $41,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $36,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetGuadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation: $36,250 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH: $33,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY ELDERCARE INC ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS AND MORE INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Blackland Community Development Inc ↗
  • Who funds VINCARE SERVICES OF AUSTIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CARITAS OF AUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds CASA MARIANELLA INC ↗
  • Who funds MANOS DE CRISTO INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUTH BE TOLD ↗
  • Who funds EL BUEN PASTOR EARLY CHILDHOOD Development Center ↗
  • Who funds Front Steps Inc ↗
  • Who funds Better ATX ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTI CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN YOUTH & COMMUNITY FARM INC DBA URBAN ROOTS ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC OF THE CAPITAL AREA ↗
  • Who funds Volunteer Healthcare Clinic Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY COALITION OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Children's Cancer Association ↗
  • Who funds Center for Survivors of Torture ↗
  • Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AUSTIN INC ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE REFUGEE COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Charities of Central Texas ↗

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.

Austin Community Foun…St David's FoundationUnited Way for Greate…Shield-Ayres Foundati…The Moody FoundationBetter Business BureauTopfer Family Foundat…Harry E and Eda L Mon…Impact Austin Foundat…A Glimmer of Hope Fou…Carl C Anderson Sr an…The Applied Materials…
Austin Community Foundation IncTX94.6× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · St David's Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Shield-Ayres Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Better Business Bureau · Topfer Family Foundation · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr · Impact Austin Foundation · A Glimmer of Hope Foundation Austin · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · The Applied Materials 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 Donald D Hammill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald D Hammill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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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    Find your warmest path to Donald D Hammill 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 100 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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