· Private foundation
Hamilton Family Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k57 grants · $19k
- $250k+1 grant · $347k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY | $346,675 |
| CRISIS CENTER OF DODGE CITY INC | $2,000 |
| BISHOP SULLIVAN CENTER | $800 |
| SEATTLE TIMES FUND FOR THE NEEDY | $700 |
| CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN ZOO | $650 |
| DEAF DOGS ROCK | $650 |
| FOOD LIFELINE | $600 |
| HARVESTER-THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK | $500 |
| PI BETA PHI FOUNDATION | $500 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE | $500 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| WATER MISSION INTERNATIONAL | $450 |
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 (FY20–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $351k 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
- FLFOOD LIFELINE3× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +6%
- TSTHE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND3× · 2020–2022 · $2k · revenue +60%
- HTHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK3× · 2020–2022 · $2k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- LCLAFAYETTE CATHOLIC SCHOOL SYSTEMone grant, 2020 · $1k
- AMAMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRINGone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -2%
- ALASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +72%
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Morris Animal Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Amazing Aussies Lethal White Rescue of Arizona. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 65 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 FOOD LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds THE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND ↗
- Who funds Crisis Center of Dodge City Inc ↗
- Who funds DEAF DOGS ROCK INC ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PI BETA PHI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Little Sisters of The Poor ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds OLD DOG HAVEN ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Speak Rescue and Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sea Turtle Conservancy ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Cousteau Society Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WETLANDS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
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: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Family Foundation 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.
- Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
- Sea Turtle Conservancy — 1% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.