· Community foundation
Hamilton Community Foundation Inc
The mission of the foundation is to receive, administer, and disburse funds for the charitable or educational purposes as will, in the discretion of the board of directors, make for the mental, moral, intellectual, and physical improvement, assistance and relief of the inhabitants of hamilton county, nebraska.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $678,090 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,411,321 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $733,231 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $159k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $480k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEARTLAND UNITED WAY | $113,000 |
| MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC | $86,102 |
| VILLAGE OF HORDVILLE | $83,187 |
| BREMER COMMUNITY CENTER | $80,000 |
| NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $67,500 |
| HAMPTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN | $32,500 |
| HAMILTON COUNTY | $25,000 |
| AURORA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $19,469 |
| HAMILTON COUNTY SENIOR CENTER | $19,469 |
| HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $19,469 |
| AURORA LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $15,989 |
| HAMILTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $15,989 |
| THREE PILLARS INITIATIVE | $11,500 |
| THE PLAINSMAN MUSEUM | $9,932 |
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 (FY17–24, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- MFMEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $726k · revenue +207% · 35% of their budget
- HRHAMILTON RECREATION INC5× · 2018–2023 · $412k · revenue +118% · 37% of their budget
- NWNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY3× · 2020–2024 · $203k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- AHAURORA HUMANE SOCIETY INCone grant, 2023 · $44k
- ILIMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $36k
- GRGILTNER RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DISTone grant, 2019 · $30k
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.
Improve community apprearance through purchasing vacant properties
To educate the public about the history of hamilton county, indiana and to preserve historic structures in hamlton county, indiana
Community development and industrial recruiting
To promote the hamilton area for economic development and business purposes.
To improve the quality of life for the citizens of hamilton by restoring the park system to excellence in partnerships with government and community.
Charitable and educational support for the hamilton county exposition in hamilton county iowa
To promote and enjoy rod and gun sporting activities
Improving the hartington community.
Maintenance of hillside cemetery
Help build and improve affordable residential housing in cook county minnesota.
Services include providing public with educational resources including research, maps, photos, and historical news of adams county, nebraska.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hamilton Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bremer Community Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 26. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 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. 23 of the 47 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 MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON RECREATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AURORA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds BREMER COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CENTER OF HAMILTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GILTNER ALUMNI & COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDGERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA STATE CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE PLAINS RESOURCE INST ↗
- Who funds AURORA SPORTS PARK INC ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COUNTY YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THREE PILLARS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds PLATTE PEER GROUP ↗
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: Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation · Frank M & Alice M Farr Trust · Robert & Bethel Kolar Charitable Trust · Wortman Family Charitable Trust · Myrl S & Bessie Evans Mather Foundation Inc · Dr James M Woodard and Mabel Woodard Trust · Heuermann Family Charitable Trust · Saint Francis Medical Center Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Community 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.