· Private foundation
Hamel Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $163k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $378k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC | $1,000,000 |
| CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MA | $225,000 |
| JACK LONDON PARK PARTNERS | $53,000 |
| EISENHOWER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SONOMA VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION | $46,500 |
| CALIFORNIA TROUT | $30,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN IN NEED | $26,700 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $25,000 |
| SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| LA LUZ CENTER | $10,000 |
| COME TO BELIEVE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| SONOMA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION OF SONOMA COUNTY | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TPTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +42%
- SCSONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2024 · $525k · revenue +41%
- EMEisenhower Medical Center5× · 2020–2024 · $220k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOone grant, 2019 · $98k · revenue +24%
- NBNORTH BEACH CITIZENSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +75%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
Sonoma valley film society produces the annual international film festival
Strengthens its community through assisting donors, making grants, and providing leadership.
The Solano Community Foundation strengthens Solano County by advancing equity, supporting nonprofit resilience, and expanding access to philanthropy. We serve as a community leader, responsive grantmaker, and trusted partner for donors who…
The Mission of the Symons Family Fund is to benefit, perform the functions of, and carry out the purposes of the Sonora Area Foundation that engage in charitable activities which benefit the residents of Tuolumne County, California.
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.
The Mission of Sonoma Ecology Center is to work with our community to enhance and sustain ecological health in the Sonoma valley.
Promotion of arts education
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The scholarship foundation of santa barbara inspires, encourages and supports santa barbara county students to and through college, graduate and vocational school by providing information, advising, and scholarships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sonoma County Vintners Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sonoma Volunteer Firefighters Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 23 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 THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds COME TO BELIEVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds SONOMA VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA TROUT INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY OF THE MOON NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The National Film Preserve Ltd ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Children in Need ↗
- Who funds LA LUZ CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTH BEACH CITIZENS ↗
- Who funds Sonoma Valley Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION OF SONOMA CO ↗
- Who funds Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPHS ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Giant Steps Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Sonoma County Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Vadasz Family Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · National Philanthropic Trust · Barlow Family Foundation · John Christopher Bunting Foundation · Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
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 Hamel Family Foundation Inc 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.
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