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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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$113k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$760kHealth$726kEducation$695kHuman Services$546kRecreation & Sports$526kArts & Culture$368kReligion$275kEmployment$240kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $678,090, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,411,321 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $733,231 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $159k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $480k
$19,469
Median grant
2
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COMMUNITY CENTER OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $38k → 8%HAMILTON COUNTY SENIOR CENTER: $21k → 8%HAMILTON COUNTY SENIOR CENTER: $21k → 8%HAMILTON COUNTY SENIOR CENTER: $21k → 8%HAMILTON COUNTY SENIOR CENTER: $19k → 8%COMMUNITY CENTER OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $12k → 8%COMMUNITY CENTER OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $11k → 8%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 28 repeat orgs$309k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
17

Total granted

$4.1M
$259k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+21%

Still filing today

50%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • MF
    MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $726k · revenue +207% · 35% of their budget
  • HR
    HAMILTON RECREATION INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $412k · revenue +118% · 37% of their budget
  • NW
    NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2024 · $203k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • AH
    AURORA HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $44k
  • IL
    IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $36k
  • GR
    GILTNER RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DIST
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
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
Hamilton Community Improvement Corp

Improve community apprearance through purchasing vacant properties

Community Improvement
2
Hamilton County Historical Society

To educate the public about the history of hamilton county, indiana and to preserve historic structures in hamlton county, indiana

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3
College Park At Grand Island
Education
4
Hamilton Charitable Corporation
Philanthropy
5
Humboldt Chamber of Commerce

Community development and industrial recruiting

Arts & Culture
6
Greater Hamilton Chamber of Commerce

To promote the hamilton area for economic development and business purposes.

—
7
The Hamilton Parks Conservancy

To improve the quality of life for the citizens of hamilton by restoring the park system to excellence in partnerships with government and community.

Environment
8
Hamilton Rod & Gun Club Inc

To promote and enjoy rod and gun sporting activities

—
9
Hillside Cemetery Association of Hankinson Inc

Maintenance of hillside cemetery

Membership Benefit
10
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…

Philanthropy
11
The Heidelberg Cemetery Association

Provide perpetual care for heidelberg cememetery

Membership Benefit
12
Hamilton County Fair Foundation

Charitable and educational support for the hamilton county exposition in hamilton county iowa

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Giltner Area Development Corporatio; 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.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $725,921 · OtherMEMORIAL FOUNDATION INCHAMILTON RECREATION INC: $412,128 · OtherHAMILTON RECREATION INCVILLAGE OF HORDVILLE: $257,408 · OtherVILLAGE OF HORDVILLEUNITED METHODIST CHURCH - AURORA: $138,970 · OtherUNITED METHODIST CHURCH - AURORAGILTNER ALUMNI & COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $112,929 · OtherAURORA LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $91,975 · Other+28 more: $750,110 · Other+28 moreHEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC: $420,093 · PhilanthropyHEARTLAND UNITED WA…HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $388,385 · PhilanthropyHAMILTON COMMUNITY …AURORA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP: $370,000 · Housing & ShelterNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $202,500 · EducationHASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $112,508 · EducationTHREE PILLARS INITIATIVE: $21,500 · Education+1 more: $7,440 · EducationBREMER COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $302,260 · Recreation & SportsHAMILTON COUNTY YOUTH CENTER: $21,816 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsHAMILTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $205,500 · Arts & CultureEDGERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $92,609 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY CENTER OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $144,517 · Human Services
Other$2,489,441Philanthropy$808,478Housing & Shelter$370,000Education$343,948Recreation & Sports$331,576Arts & Culture$298,109Human Services$144,517

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $725,921 over 7y, 35% of budgetHEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC: $420,093 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetHAMILTON RECREATION INC: $412,128 over 5y, 37% of budgetHAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $388,385 over 4y, 13% of budgetAURORA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP: $370,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetBREMER COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $302,260 over 3y, 21% of budgetHAMILTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $205,500 over 8y, 22% of budgetNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $202,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CENTER OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $144,517 over 7y, 15% of budgetEDGERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $92,609 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetPHILLIPS CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $56,646 over 2y, 44% of budgetNEBRASKA STATE CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $35,250 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetPRAIRIE PLAINS RESOURCE INST: $27,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetHAMILTON COUNTY YOUTH CENTER: $21,816 over 1y, 33% of budgetTHREE PILLARS INITIATIVE: $21,500 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetPLATTE PEER GROUP: $7,500 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetAURORA CHILD CARE INC: $7,440 over 1y, 1.4% of budget322 OVERLAND TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $6,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHAMILTON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC: $5,238 over 1y, 3.7% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Bernard K and Norma F…Frank M & Alice M Far…Robert & Bethel Kolar…Wortman Family Charit…Myrl S & Bessie Evans…Dr James M Woodard an…Heuermann Family Char…Saint Francis Medical…Bnsf Railway Foundati…Land O'Lakes Foundati…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann FoundationNE32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 47 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 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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