· Private foundation
Dorothy M Hamilton & Fred Hamilton Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITTLE SUN PEOPLE | $25,000 |
| GERARD'S HOUSE | $16,941 |
| HALOS HELP AFTER LOSS | $12,000 |
| MANY MOTHERS | $5,000 |
| OHOLEI YOSEF YITZCHOK LUBAVITCH | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +101% since the first grant, against -51% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- GHGERARD'S HOUSE6× · 2017–2024 · $87k · revenue +101%
- OYOholei Yosef Yitzchok Lubavitch Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +357%
- MMMany Mothers Inc4× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +286%
Funded once
- PWPRISON WRITES INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -51% · 25% of their budget
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NYone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Animal rescue and sanctuary and relocation of animals. Reprogramming rescued animals into service and therapy animals to serve the community.
Little shelter animal adoption center, one of long island's oldest no-kill shelters,is dedicated to saving all companion animals whose lives are in jeopardy. throughrescue from kill facilities, rehabilitation of sick and un-socialized…
The rescue of stray dogs in puerto rico, called satos. our team of volunteers in new york city works closely with el faro de los animales, a no-kill shelter in humacao,pr. our mission is to better the quality of life for abandoned satos by…
American Alliance for Protection of Animals is a not for profit charity organization based in New York City, that protects animals and promotes animal welfare. We educate and spread awareness about animal cruelty and neglect and puppy…
The organization is an animal rescue and sanctuary that provides quality life to the animals who need it the most.
Waldo's is based out of New York, NY and partners with organizations throughout the states and Puerto Rico to save the lives of dogs of all ages and breeds that have been abadoned, abused, or left homeless. Waldo's works to give these…
Rescue abused & abandoned dogs, urgent at risk of euthanasia dogs, medical needs & hospice dogs to provide veterinary care, rehabilitation, and find homes for dogs that become adoptable. Sanctuary til end of life is provided for those not…
Saving animals from euthanasia, resulting in healthy pets being adopted.
Rescue and vet care for homeless dogs and cats
To provide advocates, rescue, shelter, feeding ,medical care, neutering services and promotion and coordiantion of foster care services for animals.
ANIMAL RESCUE and adoption of animals
Shelter and care for abused and unwanted animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brooklyn Bridge Animal Welfare Coalition and the most unlike its peers is Prison Writes Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 13 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
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.
- Who funds GERARD'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Oholei Yosef Yitzchok Lubavitch Inc ↗
- Who funds Many Mothers Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SUN PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BRIDGE ANIMAL WELFARE COALITION ↗
- Who funds AMA Animal Rescue Incorporated ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds PRISON WRITES INC ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Dorothy M Hamilton & Fred Hamilton Foundation 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.
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.