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.

Where is Ed and Fern Hamel Family Foundation based?

Ed and Fern Hamel Family Foundation is based in MD.

Ed and Fern Hamel Family Foundation

Ed and Fern Hamel Family Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$184kHuman Services$79kInternational$40kHealth$36kPhilanthropy$31kHousing & Shelter$29kArts & Culture$22kPublic Benefit$21kOther$0

02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k45 grants · $105k
$10k–50k2 grants · $25k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE	$15,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$7,500
HILLSDALE COLLEGE	$5,000
PATRICK HENRY COLLEGE	$5,000
ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE	$5,000
COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS	$5,000
NAMI HOWARD COUNTY MD	$5,000
CENTERFOR ADOPTION SUPPORT AND EDUC	$5,000
MMYFC	$5,000
BAY COMMUNITY HEALTH	$3,000
HOWARD COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL	$3,000
ELKRIDGE HERITAGE SOCIETY	$3,000
ARAMINA FREEDOM INITIATIVE	$3,000
TURNING POINT USA	$2,500

02The need

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Ed and Fern Hamel Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Ed and Fern Hamel Family Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 6.7% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$375k · 42 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$375k

$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+20%

Still filing today

60%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitOther

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

AL
ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE
4× · 2022–2025 · $43k · revenue +44%
RT
REBUILDING TOGETHER HOWARD COUNTY INC
3× · 2022–2024 · $21k · revenue +42%
CO
COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS
4× · 2022–2025 · $11k · revenue +8%

Funded once

VF
VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue ×45
MA
MMYFC ANNUAL FUNDRAISING DINNER
one grant, 2022 · $10k
CH
CHRYSALIS HOUSE INC
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -24%

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.

Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education

University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

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…

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United States Naval Institute

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.

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University of Maryland Physicians Pa

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University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

Health

University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Education

University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Health

University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Health

University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

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,…

Health

University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

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University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Health

National Veterans Legal Services Program Inc

To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; 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.

05the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 66 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/39

Grantees still filing

32/39

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$274,600Education$99,500Housing & Shelter$28,000Health$24,500Human Services$22,500Philanthropy$17,500Public Benefit$11,010

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

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.

The Community Foundation of Howard County IncMD19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ed and Fern Hamel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ed and Fern Hamel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home