Maryland · Private foundation
Ed and Fern Hamel Family Foundation
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.
- $130k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 42
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Ed and Fern Hamel Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 45 | $124k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $111k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $102k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $118k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alice Lloyd College | $42,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Rebuilding Together Howard County Inc | $21,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Elkridge Heritage Society Inc | $11,000 | 4 | 5% |
| College of the Ozarks | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Owensville Primary Care Inc | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Association of Scholars Inc | $7,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund | $7,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Nami - Howard County Md Inc | $7,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($211k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ed and Fern Hamel Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Howard County Inc · Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Arundel Community Development Services Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Horizon Foundation of Howard County Inc · Allegis Group Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
Compare Ed and Fern Hamel Family Foundation with peer funders
About Ed and Fern Hamel Family Foundation
- How much does Ed and Fern Hamel Family Foundation give?
- Ed and Fern Hamel Family Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $129,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 42 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Ed and Fern Hamel Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (39%), Human Services (16%), International (8%).
- Who are Ed and Fern Hamel Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Alice Lloyd College ($43k), Rebuilding Together Howard County Inc ($21k), Elkridge Heritage Society Inc ($11k).
- Does Ed and Fern Hamel Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ed and Fern Hamel Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ed and Fern Hamel Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Howard County Inc, Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co, The United Way of Central Maryland Inc.
- Where is Ed and Fern Hamel Family Foundation based?
- Ed and Fern Hamel Family Foundation is based in MD.
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