Wisconsin · Private foundation
Hamilton Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $198k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Hamilton Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $198k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $184k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $177k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $188k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $155k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $164k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $202k | 34% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $197k | 28% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carroll University Inc | $255,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Denison University | $100,180 | 5 | 0% |
| Northeast Wisconsin Land Trust Inc | $90,000 | 9 | 3% |
| The Uwm Foundation Inc | $81,812 | 5 | 0% |
| The University School of Milwaukee Corporation | $61,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Stars and Stripes Honor Flight Inc | $46,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Crivitz Area Food Pantry | $41,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Ridgeway Community School | $34,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Milwaukee Rescue Mission | $32,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Raptor Education Group Inc | $32,000 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($513k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hamilton Family Foundation Inc 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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Dudley and Constance Godfrey Foundation Inc · Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation
How this is measured
About Hamilton Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Hamilton Family Foundation Inc give?
- Hamilton Family Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $197,985 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Hamilton Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Human Services (9%), Animals (9%).
- Who are Hamilton Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Carroll University Inc ($255k), Denison University ($100k), Northeast Wisconsin Land Trust Inc ($90k).
- Does Hamilton Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hamilton Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hamilton Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation, Baird Foundation Inc.
- Where is Hamilton Family Foundation Inc based?
- Hamilton Family Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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