Illinois · Private foundation
Hamill Family Foundation
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.
- $50M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 132
- Grants FY2024
- 89
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 1%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,862,968
- Organizations funded a year
- 89 to 134
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 20
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 1% of the organizations Hamill Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 97 | $50M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 89 | $7.4M | 1% |
| FY2022 | 95 | $11M | 7% |
| FY2021 | 120 | $6.5M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 134 | $8.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Openlands | $7,642,000 | 5 | 24% |
| Chicago Zoological Society | $5,389,994 | 5 | 3% |
| The Morton Arboretum | $4,050,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest | $2,879,000 | 5 | 10% |
| The Conservation Foundation | $2,171,000 | 5 | 25% |
| Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation Inc | $1,798,911 | 5 | 32% |
| Field Museum of Natural History | $1,790,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Teton Regional Land Trust Inc | $1,564,500 | 5 | 21% |
| Naples Zoo Inc | $948,596 | 2 | 10% |
| Carwythen Charitable Trust Dated 8/7/2019 | $758,655 | 1 | 5% |
Show all 146 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($47M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Hamill Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 140 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation · S & E Bramsen Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · The Corwith Fund · Grand Victoria Foundation · Land Trust Alliance Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Ranch Spur Charitable Trust · Yellow-Crowned Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
How this is measured
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About Hamill Family Foundation
- How much does Hamill Family Foundation give?
- Hamill Family Foundation reported 132 grants totaling $50,188,807 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 89 and 134 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Hamill Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (52%), Environment (31%), Animals (11%).
- Who are Hamill Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Openlands ($7.6M), Chicago Zoological Society ($5.4M), The Morton Arboretum ($4.0M).
- Does Hamill Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 1% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hamill Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hamill Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation, S & E Bramsen Foundation, The Nature Conservancy.
- Where is Hamill Family Foundation based?
- Hamill Family Foundation is based in IL.
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