Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Hamilton Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $11M
- Granted FY2022
- 223
- Itemized grants FY2022
- 144
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 76%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Itemized, FY2022
- $7.9M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2022
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 64 to 144
- FY2018 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 19
- Total assets, FY2022
- $232M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 76% of the organizations Hamilton Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.2M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 144 | $7.9M | 76% |
| FY2019 | 64 | $4.0M | 19% |
| FY2018 | 78 | $4.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Franklin Institute | $2,011,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Newport Hospital Foundation | $1,063,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Pomfret School Incorporated | $1,052,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art | $1,010,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School | $680,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Church Farm School | $654,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Newport County Regional YMCA | $500,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Arden Theatre Company | $400,000 | 3 | 4% |
| The Gesu School Inc | $335,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Kimmel Center Inc | $310,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 138 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hamilton Family Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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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: Hamilton Family Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The William Penn Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Connelly Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Ludwick Fdn · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Hamilton Family Charitable Trust
- How much does Hamilton Family Charitable Trust give?
- Hamilton Family Charitable Trust reported 223 itemized grants totaling $7,921,326, out of $10,514,996 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 64 and 144 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2022.
- What does Hamilton Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (71%), Education (10%), Arts & Culture (5%).
- Who are Hamilton Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2022: The Franklin Institute ($2.0M), Newport Hospital Foundation ($1.1M), Pomfret School Incorporated ($1.1M).
- Does Hamilton Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 76% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hamilton Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hamilton Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hamilton Family Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation, Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw.
- Where is Hamilton Family Charitable Trust based?
- Hamilton Family Charitable Trust is based in PA.
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