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Hamilton Charitable Corporation

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.

$625
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$625
Largest
01What you fund
0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Philanthropy$3.7MReligion$101kEducation$32kArts & Culture$22kHealth$12kYouth Development$10kHuman Services$8kPublic Benefit$5kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$625
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST ANTHONY PARISH$625
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%EKVN YEFOLECV: $1k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.8M · 15 repeat orgs$82k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +101% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
27

Total granted

$3.8M
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+101%
+24%

Still filing today

27%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $625 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • TH
    THE HAMILTON COMPANY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $3.7M · revenue +101% · 30% of their budget
  • PS
    Presentation School Foundation Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $4k · revenue +37%
  • TENACITY INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • CK
    CONGREGATION KEHILATH ISRAEL
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +24%
  • BS
    BROOKLINE SENIOR CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $7k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Boston Foundation Inc

As Greater Boston's community foundation, the Boston Foundation devotes its resources to expanding opportunities, improving lives and strengthening communities. See Schedule OThe Foundation fulfills this mission in three principal ways:…

Philanthropy
2
Boston Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Harvard Club of Boston Foundation
Education
4
Boston Public Library Fund Inc

The boston public library fund provides financial support to the boston public library (bpl), ensuring that it remains viable, engaging, accessible, and free to all. the library fund fulfills this mission by working in partnership with…

Education
5
The Boston Foundation for Sight Inc

Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.

Human Services
6
Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network Inc

The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).

Health
7
Rsm Boston Foundation Inc

The rsm boston foundation ("foundation") inspires employees of rsm us llp to become involved in giving back to communities and causes that they care about; and, in so doing, to support one another and to build a stronger team. the…

Philanthropy
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

9
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
10
University of Massachusetts Foundation Inc

The mission of the university of massachusetts foundation, inc. is to foster and promote the growth, progress and general welfare of the university of massachusetts as stated in the original 1950 articles of organization. the foundation…

Education
11
Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation Inc

Massachusetts taxpayers foundation provides public & private sector decision makers with accurate, timely, unbiased research & constructive solutions that drive public policy in order to strengthen the state's finances & position the…

Public Benefit
12
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE HAMILTON COMPANY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $3,699,239 · PhilanthropyTHE HAMILTON COMPANY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION+2 more — $22,500 · PhilanthropyOBLATES OF THE VIRGIN MARY — $70,000 · OtherCONGREGATION KEHILATH ISRAEL — $20,000 · OtherLAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $12,948 · OtherBRIDGEWATER STATE COLLEGE (CAROLYN CLASSIC) — $7,430 · OtherBROOKLINE YOUTH FUND — $7,000 · OtherBROOKLINE SENIOR CENTER — $6,568 · Other+27 more — $48,030 · OtherNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureSCITUATE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · Arts & CulturePresentation School Foundation Inc — $4,450 · EducationWOODLAND GOLF CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $1,000 · EducationTENACITY INC — $3,000 · Recreation & SportsDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $2,550 · HealthCARITAS COMMUNITIES INC — $2,500 · Housing & ShelterAnd Then There Were None — $1,000 · Human ServicesEKVNV YEFOLECVLKE — $1,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$3,721,739Other$171,976Arts & Culture$17,500Education$5,450Recreation & Sports$3,000Health$2,550Housing & Shelter$2,500Human Services$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE HAMILTON COMPANY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $3,699,239 over 4y, 30% of budgetBROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $16,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresentation School Foundation Inc — $4,450 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTENACITY INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $2,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARITAS COMMUNITIES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCITUATE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE GENESIS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN — $2,025 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOODLAND GOLF CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAnd Then There Were None — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEKVNV YEFOLECVLKE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 HAMILTON COMPANY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc
  • Who funds Presentation School Foundation Inc
  • Who funds TENACITY INC
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
  • Who funds CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC
  • Who funds SCITUATE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE GENESIS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds WOODLAND GOLF CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
  • Who funds And Then There Were None
  • Who funds EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE 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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Hamilton Charitable Corporation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 60%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • Presentation School Foundation Inc0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Hamilton Charitable Corporation?

Find your warmest path to Hamilton Charitable Corporation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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