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Hamilton Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11M
Granted FY2022
223
Grants FY2022
19
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$44MEducation$6.0MArts & Culture$3.0MScience & Tech$2.1MHealth$1.5MYouth Development$891kHuman Services$848kFood & Nutrition$249kOther$0
02FY2022 · 223 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 223 grants below total $7,921,326, the rows itemized in this filing. The $10,514,996 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,593,670 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 · FY2022

  • Under $10k101 grants · $306k
  • $10k–50k76 grants · $1.5M
  • $50k–250k40 grants · $2.8M
  • $250k+6 grants · $3.4M
$10,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$232M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Franklin Institute$1,000,000
Pomfret School$1,000,000
Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School$600,000
Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation$250,000
Gesu School$250,000
Maternity Care Coalition$250,000
University of the Arts (UArts)$150,000
Church Farm School$150,000
SquashSmarts, Inc.$125,000
National Center for Sports Safety, Inc. (NSCSS)$100,000
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS)$100,000
YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School$100,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Philadelphia$100,000
Garage Community & Youth Center$100,000
Garage Community & Youth Center$100,000
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 (FY18–19, $715k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEWPORT COUNTY YMCA: $500k → 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $15k → 7%YOUNGMOMS: $15k → 6%YOUNGMOMS: $7k → 6%PROJECT HOME: $5k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $5k → 22%MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC: $10k → 22%MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC: $8k → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $150k → 22%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Hamilton Family Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Hamilton Family Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 63 repeat orgs$5.6M to everyone else

63 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2022, 28 since wound down; 109 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
27

Total granted

$10M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+54%

Still filing today

87%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’22
EducationArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TF
    THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE
    2× · 2019–2022 · $2.0M · revenue +7%
  • NH
    Newport Hospital Foundation
    2× · 2018–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +3%
  • PM
    PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
    3× · 2018–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • NC
    NEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA
    one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue -4%
  • CT
    CRADLES TO CRAYONS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $165k · revenue +179%
  • PS
    PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS
    one grant, 2018 · $125k
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
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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2
The Public School of Germantown

Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…

Education
3
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
4
Philadelphia Performing Arts a String Theory Charter School

Charter school providing students a content rich, adademically rigerous core knowledge education with a well-defined, sequential curriculum in a safe, orderly disiplined and caring environment.

Education
5
Pembroke Hill School

A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."

Education
6
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
9
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
10
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
11
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philadelphia Education Fund; the most unlike its peers is Christ Lutheran Community Outreach. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

135 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. 135 of the 200 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
133/135
Grantees still filing
101/135
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

POMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $1,052,500 · EducationPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATEDCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL: $680,000 · EducationCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHO…Church Farm School: $654,500 · EducationChurch Farm SchoolTHE GESU SCHOOL INC: $335,000 · EducationTHE GESU SCHOOL INCTHE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER: $220,000 · EducationMASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $212,500 · Education+40 more: $1,539,122 · Education+40 moreTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $2,011,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTEPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $1,010,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ARTARDEN THEATRE COMPANY: $400,000 · Arts & CultureARDEN THEATRE COMPANYKIMMEL CENTER INC: $310,000 · Arts & CultureKIMMEL CENTER INC+19 more: $609,420 · Arts & Culture+19 moreUNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS (UARTS): $370,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS (UART…FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA…STEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC: $201,000 · Other+104 more: $3,133,786 · Other+104 moreNewport Hospital Foundation: $1,063,000 · HealthNewport H…Maternity Care Coalition: $250,000 · HealthMaternity…MAIN LINE HEALTH INC: $60,000 · Health+4 more: $17,000 · HealthNEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA: $500,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $165,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOME: $56,000 · Human ServicesMERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC: $47,500 · Human ServicesYOUNGMOMS: $47,000 · Human ServicesSQUASHSMARTS INC: $190,000 · Recreation & SportsMILE HIGH 360: $129,000 · Recreation & SportsRADNOR HUNT FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsPHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC: $30,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $10,500 · Recreation & SportsESF DREAM CAMP FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentAFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIPS: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEED IN DEED: $60,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $16,000 · Youth Development
Education$4,693,622Arts & Culture$4,340,420Other$3,954,786Health$1,390,000Human Services$815,500Recreation & Sports$399,500Youth Development$346,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $2,011,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetNewport Hospital Foundation: $1,063,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $1,052,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $1,010,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL: $680,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetChurch Farm School: $654,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA: $500,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetARDEN THEATRE COMPANY: $400,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetTHE GESU SCHOOL INC: $335,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetKIMMEL CENTER INC: $310,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMaternity Care Coalition: $250,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER: $220,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetMASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $212,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC: $201,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSQUASHSMARTS INC: $190,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $165,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S LITERACY INITIATIVE: $137,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA: $135,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWISSAHICKON CHARTER SCHOOL: $130,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMILE HIGH 360: $129,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA: $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS: $106,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetESF DREAM CAMP FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOPERA PHILADELPHIA: $100,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $82,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetINN DWELLING INC: $80,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetCENTER FOR AQUATIC SCIENCES: $80,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetVALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKIPP ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES CORPORATION: $75,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIPS: $70,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetHealthy NewsWorks: $70,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetBOOK TRUST: $70,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION: $70,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA: $65,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC: $62,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKENNETT AFTER-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $60,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCK TO THE FUTURE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetMAIN LINE HEALTH INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNEED IN DEED: $60,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $56,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL: $52,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS LATIN OF PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOO: $52,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHISTORIC FAIR HILL INC: $50,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetFORT MIFFLIN ON THE DELAWARE: $50,000 over 1y, 23% 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.

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.

Hamilton Family Found…The Philadelphia Foun…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The William Penn Foun…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…Connelly FoundationHenrietta Tower Wurts…Ludwick FdnThe Patricia Kind Fam…United Way of Greater…Wsfs Cares FoundationThe Barra Foundation …
Hamilton Family FoundationPA122.4× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hamilton Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Hamilton Family Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Hamilton Family Charitable Trust 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 200 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $17M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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