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Hamel Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$1.8MHuman Services$699kCommunity Improvement$525kCrime & Legal$235kHealth$225kPublic Safety & Disaster$72kAnimals$68kRecreation & Sports$56kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $163k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $378k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$26,700
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC$1,000,000
CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MA$225,000
JACK LONDON PARK PARTNERS$53,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$50,000
EISENHOWER HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
SONOMA VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION$46,500
CALIFORNIA TROUT$30,000
FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN IN NEED$26,700
SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS FOUNDATION$25,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$25,000
LA LUZ CENTER$10,000
TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL$5,000
COME TO BELIEVE FOUNDATION$5,000
SONOMA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION OF SONOMA COUNTY$2,500
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%NORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $25k → 10%LA LUZ CENTER: $21k → 9%LA LUZ CENTER: $10k → 9%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 16 repeat orgs$188k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
7

Total granted

$3.6M
$188k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+37%

Still filing today

88%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • TP
    THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +42%
  • SC
    SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $525k · revenue +41%
  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Center
    5× · 2020–2024 · $220k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • LU
    LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
    one grant, 2019 · $98k · revenue +24%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • NB
    NORTH BEACH CITIZENSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +75%
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
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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2
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
3
Sonoma Valley Film Festival

Sonoma valley film society produces the annual international film festival

Arts & Culture
4
Sonora Area Foundation

Strengthens its community through assisting donors, making grants, and providing leadership.

Philanthropy
5
Solano Community Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
6
Symons Family Fund

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.

Human Services
7
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
8
Santa Barbara Education Foundation

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.

Education
9
Sonoma Ecology Center

The Mission of Sonoma Ecology Center is to work with our community to enhance and sustain ecological health in the Sonoma valley.

Environment
10
Sonoma Plein Air Foundation

Promotion of arts education

Arts & Culture
11
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
12
Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sonoma County Vintners Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
16/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $1,200,000 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INCUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $264,200 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $98,000 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO+2 more: $24,500 · EducationCATHOLIC CHARITIES: $642,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MA: $235,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MACOME TO BELIEVE FOUNDATION: $185,000 · OtherCOME TO BELIEVE FOUNDATIONVALLEY OF THE MOON NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION: $55,500 · Other+7 more: $153,120 · Other+7 moreSONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS FOUNDATION: $525,000 · Community ImprovementSONOMA COUNTY V…Eisenhower Medical Center: $220,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthSONOMA VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION: $71,500 · Public Safety & DisasterCALIFORNIA TROUT INC: $68,400 · AnimalsLA LUZ CENTER: $31,000 · Human ServicesNORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $25,000 · Human Services
Education$1,586,700Other$1,271,120Community Improvement$525,000Health$225,000Public Safety & Disaster$71,500Animals$68,400Human Services$56,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $1,200,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS FOUNDATION: $525,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $264,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $220,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOME TO BELIEVE FOUNDATION: $185,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $98,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSONOMA VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION: $71,500 over 2y, 35% of budgetCALIFORNIA TROUT INC: $68,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVALLEY OF THE MOON NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION: $55,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetThe National Film Preserve Ltd: $39,900 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFoundation for Children in Need: $33,220 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetLA LUZ CENTER: $31,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSonoma Valley Education Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFARM BUREAU FOUNDATION OF SONOMA CO: $12,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance: $12,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSAINT JOSEPHS ARTS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGiant Steps Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Sonoma County Communi…Marin Community Found…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Vadasz Family Fou…McNabb FoundationJewish Community Fede…National Philanthropi…Barlow Family Foundat…John Christopher Bunt…Sonoma Valley Vintner…Arizona Community Fou…American Endowment Fo…
Sonoma County Community FoundationCA26× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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
    0get no government money at all
    5report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Hamel Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Hamel Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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