· Private foundation
Ella Gayle Hamlin Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN JOSE PUBLIC LIBRARY FDN | $5,136 |
| UNIV OF CO AT BOULDER FDN | $5,000 |
| SAN JOSE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| SAN JOSE SPOTLIGHT | $4,000 |
| CHRISTMAS INN THE PARK | $3,375 |
| HEALTHIER KIDS FDN | $3,000 |
| LATINO COALITION OF SILICON VALLEY | $2,550 |
| VALLEY HEALTH FDN | $2,500 |
| THE GRATEFUL GARMENT PROJECT | $2,200 |
| HISTORY SAN JOSE | $2,000 |
| EAST SIDE EDUCATION FDN | $2,000 |
| SILICON VALLEY COUNCIL OF NONPROITS | $1,480 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,069 |
| SAN JOSE DANCE CO | $1,000 |
| CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC IN | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
68 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 29 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SJSan Jose Chamber Orchestra8× · 2017–2024 · $46k · revenue +23%
- HKHEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +12%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CO AT COULDERone grant, 2021 · $5k
- CFCU FOUNDATION - INIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDERone grant, 2020 · $5k
- AAAMERICAN ASIAN FOR COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENTone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
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.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
The Sacramento Region Community Foundation leads, serves, and inspires enduring philanthropy for a just and vibrant Sacramento region.
The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
Silicon Valley Social Venture Funds (SV2) mission is to unleash the talents and resources of the Bay Area community to achieve meaningful social impact. SV2 works to build the organizational capacity of our Nonprofit Grantees and Impact…
Just safe's mission is to educate the public about the needs of communities most impacted by crime, violence, and incarceration; and promote new safety solutions through community-building, leadership development, grassroots mobilization,…
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
How this is measured
83 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. 83 of the 220 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds San Jose Chamber Orchestra ↗
- Who funds HEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds San Jose News Bureau ↗
- Who funds CHRISTMAS IN THE PARK ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ↗
- Who funds SILICON VALLEY COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF) ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA GOLDEN GATE SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Cruz Mountains Wine Growers Association ↗
- Who funds The Grateful Garment Project ↗
- Who funds SCOTT'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORY SAN JOSE ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
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 Sobrato Family Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Sunlight Giving · The Applied Materials Foundation · The Heising-Simons Foundation · The Health Trust · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Valley Health Foundation (Vhf) · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ella Gayle Hamlin Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ella Gayle Hamlin Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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