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Hamilton Char Trust Marion B

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$39k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2026
12
Organizations funded FY2025
0%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$3,271
Largest grant, FY2026
$6,542
Organizations funded a year
12 to 12
FY2020 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
2
Total assets, FY2026
$855k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 0% of the organizations Hamilton Char Trust Marion B funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving11$39k0%
FY202512$44k0%
FY202412$32k42%
FY202312$36k0%
FY202212$47k0%
FY202112$32k0%
FY202012$35kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2026.

Health$63kEducation$57kReligion$57kAnimals$22kHousing & Shelter$22kYouth Development$22kHuman Services$22k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Blue Hill Public Library$25,34370%
Sweetser$22,07270%
Animal Rescue League of Boston$22,07270%
Maine Seacoast Mission$22,07270%
Castine Community Hospital$22,07272%
The Blue Hill Memorial Hospital Northern Light Blue Hill Hospital$19,26160%
Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers$12,54440%
Friend Memorial Public Library$9,52830%
Andover Newton Theological School$9,5283n/a

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($101k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hamilton Char Trust Marion B supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBlue Hill Public Library: $25,343 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSweetser: $22,072 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Rescue League of Boston: $22,072 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Seacoast Mission: $22,072 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCastine Community Hospital: $22,072 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetThe Blue Hill Memorial Hospital Northern Light Blue Hill Hospital: $19,261 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Children's Home for Little Wanderers: $12,544 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFriend Memorial Public Library: $9,528 over 3y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Maine Community Found…Tua Eugene B HamiltonDavis Family Foundati…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Tua Eugene B Hamilton · Davis Family Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Hamilton Char Trust Marion B

How much does Hamilton Char Trust Marion B give?
Hamilton Char Trust Marion B reported 11 grants totaling $39,252 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2025.
What does Hamilton Char Trust Marion B fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2026, its largest causes are Health (24%), Education (21%), Religion (21%).
Who are Hamilton Char Trust Marion B's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2026: Blue Hill Public Library ($25k), Sweetser ($22k), Animal Rescue League of Boston ($22k).
Does Hamilton Char Trust Marion B fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hamilton Char Trust Marion B 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 Hamilton Char Trust Marion B?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Tua Eugene B Hamilton, Davis Family Foundation.
Where is Hamilton Char Trust Marion B based?
Hamilton Char Trust Marion B is based in TX.

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 17 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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