· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 43% of Frederick Hammersley Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in NM; by stated purpose, 52%.
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 +79% since the first grant, against +46% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +31%- TPThe Pierpont Morgan Librarygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $252k · revenue +109%
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 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.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 35 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 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 ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Frederick Hammersley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frederick Hammersley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Play a game based on Frederick Hammersley’s filings →