· Private foundation
Frederick Hammersley Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
72% of Frederick Hammersley Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Albuquerque Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Frederick Hammersley Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $216k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $822k
- $250k+1 grant · $434k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Albuquerque Museum | $434,000 |
| Palm Springs Art Museum | $213,600 |
| Parrish Art museum | $179,000 |
| Pomona College Museum of Art | $150,000 |
| New Mexico Museum of Art | $102,300 |
| UC Berkeley Art museum | $67,375 |
| U of Ca Berkely Art Museum | $60,000 |
| NM PBS | $50,000 |
| University of New Mexico Foundation | $49,000 |
| University of New Mexico foundation | $41,500 |
| New Mexico Museum of Art | $38,000 |
| University of Ca Irvine | $21,000 |
| Oberlin College | $21,000 |
| Spencer Museum of Art | $17,500 |
| Museum of NM Foundation | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 43% of Frederick Hammersley 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. Read by recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in NM; read by stated purpose it is 52% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +79% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2018, 1 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k 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
- NMNew Mexico Museum of Art2× · 2017–2018 · $569k
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $256k · revenue +62%- PCPomona College Museum of Art2× · 2017–2018 · $253k
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Ca Berkeley Art Museumone grant, 2017 · $836k
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +34%- TPThe Pierpont Morgan Librarygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $252k · revenue +109%
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…
Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art
The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…
Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of New Mexico Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Monimos Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 35 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 ALBUQUERQUE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Pierpont Morgan Library ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MONIMOS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds 516 Arts ↗
- Who funds Oberlin College ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
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.
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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 Frederick Hammersley 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.