· Private foundation
Frank M & Alice M Farr Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $77k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $156k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREMER COMMUNITY CENTER | $100,000 |
| HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $55,871 |
| AURORA DIAMOND SPORTS LLC | $15,980 |
| PRAIRIE PLAINS RESOURCE INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| HEARTLAND UNITED WAY | $14,670 |
| HAMILTON COUMMUNIITY FOUNDATION | $11,198 |
| AURORA ADOPT-A-PET | $10,000 |
| HAMILTON COUNTY YOUTH CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE LEADERSHIP CENTER | $8,677 |
| BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| AURORA ADOPT-A-PET | $5,000 |
| AURORA ADOPT-A-PET | $5,000 |
| HAMILTON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY | $2,500 |
| HAMILTON RECREATION INC | $2,182 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 7% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Frank M & Alice M Farr Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NE; by stated purpose, 94%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBREMER COMMUNITY CENTER INC3× · 2023–2025 · $225k · revenue -11%
- HCHAMILTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY3× · 2020–2022 · $112k · revenue +2%
- HUHEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $77k · revenue -16%
Funded once
- AHAURORA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -95%
- HPHAMPTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $50k
- EEEDGERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +25%
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.
Improve community apprearance through purchasing vacant properties
To educate the public about the history of hamilton county, indiana and to preserve historic structures in hamlton county, indiana
public library
Maintain the area's historical data and the museum.
Senior citizens center/services
Performance of theatrical productions using local talent and providing educational opportunities for the community. putting the spotlight on education, inspiration, and community through the performing arts.
Help build and improve affordable residential housing in cook county minnesota.
To improve the quality of life for the citizens of hamilton by restoring the park system to excellence in partnerships with government and community.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 26 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
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 HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BREMER COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON RECREATION INC ↗
- Who funds AURORA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds EDGERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE PLAINS RESOURCE INST ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COUNTY YOUTH CENTER ↗
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: Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation · Hamilton Community Foundation Inc · Robert & Bethel Kolar Charitable Trust · Wortman Family Charitable Trust · Myrl S & Bessie Evans Mather Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Frank M & Alice M Farr Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank M & Alice M Farr Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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