· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k45 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $15,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS | $5,000 |
| CENTERFOR ADOPTION SUPPORT AND EDUC | $5,000 |
| NAMI HOWARD COUNTY MD | $5,000 |
| MMYFC | $5,000 |
| ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| PATRICK HENRY COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| BAY COMMUNITY HEALTH | $3,000 |
| ELKRIDGE HERITAGE SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| ARAMINA FREEDOM INITIATIVE | $3,000 |
| HOWARD COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL | $3,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $2,500 |
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 (FY22–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Ed and Fern Hamel Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- ALALICE LLOYD COLLEGE4× · 2022–2025 · $43k · revenue +44%
- RTREBUILDING TOGETHER HOWARD COUNTY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $21k · revenue +42%
- COCOLLEGE OF THE OZARKS4× · 2022–2025 · $11k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- MAMMYFC ANNUAL FUNDRAISING DINNERone grant, 2022 · $10k
- VFVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue ×45
- CHCHRYSALIS HOUSE INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -24%
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dog Is My Copilot. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 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. 39 of the 66 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 ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER HOWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds ELKRIDGE HERITAGE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Owensville Primary Care Inc ↗
- Who funds Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI - HOWARD COUNTY MD INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds Maryland Dental Action Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds PATRICK HENRY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS CRISIS INTERVENTION CENTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Travis Manion Foundation ↗
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: 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
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 Ed and Fern Hamel Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Seeds 4 Success Inc — 48% of income from government
- Araminta Freedom Initiative — 26% of income from government
- Owensville Primary Care Inc — 24% of income from government
- Charting Careers Inc — 22% of income from government
- Chase Brexton Health Services Inc — 4% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.