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Ham Jr Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Ham Jr Family Foundation Inc

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.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$67kReligion$29kPhilanthropy$18kHuman Services$13kArts & Culture$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kPublic Benefit$2k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$13,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$24k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WHEN IM BETTER FOUNDATION$13,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$127k · 12 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
6

Total granted

$127k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+16%

Still filing today

33%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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

  • CS
    Community Support Systems Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $9k · revenue +11%
  • MC
    MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +1%
  • MC
    MARINE CORPS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $2k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • CN
    CHILDREN'S NATIONAL
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +16%
  • BA
    BRANDYWINE AMERICAN LEGION POST 227
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -75%
  • RF
    RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +72%
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.

1
Maryland Center for Veterans Education and Training Inc

To provide extensive comprehensive services to eradicate homelessness among the military veteran community. MCVET participants work through recovery, work toward maintaining livable wages, and permanent housing solutions. The organization…

Housing & Shelter
2
Department of Maryland Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States

The mission consists of veterans advocacy, historical education and commemoration, encouraging national security through support of our nation's men and women in uniform, promoting good citizenship and community service, encouraging…

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3
Us Marshals Museum Inc

The mission of the u.s. marshals museum, inc. is to form a national center of heritage and legacy, disseminate knowledge and inspire appreciation for the accomplishments of the u.s. marshals service.

Arts & Culture
4
Maryland Veterans Tr

To provide monetary and other assistance to veterans and their families, and to public and private programs that support veterans and their families.

Public Benefit
5
Marine Corps University Foundation Inc

To provide resources that enhance and enrich the professional military education and leadership of active duty and reserve marines across the corps.

Education
6
United States Marshals Museum Foundation Inc

The mission of the u.s. marshals museum foundation, inc. is to raise funds to support the construction and the future operations of the u.s. marshals museum, inc. so that it may form a national center of heritage and legacy, disseminate…

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7
Gold Star Mothers Maryland Chapter Inc

The mission of the gold star mothers, inc. - maryland chapter is finding strength in the fellowship of other gold star mothers who strive to keep the memory of our sons and daughters alive by working to help veterans, those currently…

Philanthropy
8
Maryland Fire-Rescue Services Foundation Inc

A memorial for the fire and emergency service personnel who die in the line of duty in maryland

Arts & Culture
9
Marine Corps League of Pennsylvania Foundation Inc

It is the purpose of this foundation to promote charitable and educational activities consistent with honoring marine corps history and veterans of the united states marines corps by preserving the patriotic and historical traditions of…

Education
10
Medal of Honor Foundation Inc

The Medal of Honor Foundation's mission and purpose is to provide funds to support the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. In doing so, the Foundation supports the Society in advancing their mission to perpetuate the Medal of Honor's…

Arts & Culture
11
Maryland Chamber Foundation

To support the shared vision of a better maryland. with priorities like research, development, and education, the foundation is a cornerstone of community-building in business.

Education
12
Marine Corps Association

The mission of the marine corps association (mca) is to support the marine corps by disseminating knowledge of military art and science among marines, provide opportunities for professional development for marines, and to foster the spirit…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Corps Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Children's National. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UCLA: $60,000 · OtherUCLAWHEN IM BETTER FOUNDATION: $18,000 · OtherWHEN IM BETTER FOUNDATIONST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCHCommunity Support Systems Inc: $9,000 · OtherCommunity Support Systems IncST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $9,000 · OtherST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHALL FAITH EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $7,500 · OtherALL FAITH EPISCOPAL CHURCH+4 more: $7,500 · Other+4 moreCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $5,000 · HealthMARINE CORPS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Arts & CultureMARYLAND VETERANS MEMORIAL MUSEUM INC AT CHARLES COUNTY: $1,800 · Arts & CultureRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureMARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Human ServicesFLORIDA CANCER SPECIALISTS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MARLBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $1,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFRIENDS OF CEDAR LANE INC: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$121,000Health$5,000Arts & Culture$4,800Human Services$3,000Philanthropy$2,000Public Safety & Disaster$1,000Housing & Shelter$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Support Systems Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE CORPS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA CANCER SPECIALISTS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARYLAND VETERANS MEMORIAL MUSEUM INC AT CHARLES COUNTY: $1,800 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBRANDYWINE AMERICAN LEGION POST 227: $1,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CEDAR LANE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
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.

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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 Ham Jr Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ham Jr Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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