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Hamilton M & Blanche C Forman Christian Foundation at a glance

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Hamilton M & Blanche C Forman Christian Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$51k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$335kArts & Culture$114kEducation$84kHealth$61kInternational$25kScience & Tech$20kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMMERSE CHURCH$25,000
GOOD NEWS FISHING MINISTRIES INC$20,000
UNITED SERVANTS ABROAD$5,000
OLD DAVIE SCHOOL FOUNDATION$1,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNITED SERVANTS ABROAD: $32k → 11%JA WORLD UNCORKED: $5k → 13%IMMERSE CHURCH: $25k → 16%FAVOR INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 16%UNITED SERVANTS ABROAD: $30k → 11%BROWARD EDUCATION FOUNDATIONDEBATE: $50k → 13%IMMERSE CHURCH INC: $5k → 16%UNITED SERVANTS ABROAD: $5k → 11%NSU ART MUSEUM FORT LAUDERDALE: $12k → 13%HELPING HANDS FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%BROWARD EDUCATION FOUNDATIONDEBATE: $3k → 13%BROWARD EDUCATION FOUNDATIONDEBATE: $3k → 13%DILLARD COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL: $3k → 13%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF: $75k → 13%WESTMINSTER ACADEMY EDUCATIONAL FOU: $26k → 13%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF: $25k → 13%OLD DAVIE SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%OLD DAVIE SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%OLD DAVIE SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%BROWARD EDUCATION PERFORMING ARTS F: $50k → 13%BROWARD PREFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION: $50k → 13%MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY & SCIENCE: $14k → 13%MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY & SCIENCE: $6k → 13%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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$442k · 8 repeat orgs$206k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
9

Total granted

$442k
$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+23%

Still filing today

63%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionArts & CultureHousing & ShelterInternationalHealthOther
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

  • US
    UNITED SERVANTS ABROAD INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $67k · revenue +2%
  • OR
    Ocala Royal Dames For Cancer Research Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $31k · revenue +46%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY AND SCIENCE INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +215%

Funded once

  • BE
    BROWARD EDUCATION PERFORMING ARTS F
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • BP
    BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -12%
  • RD
    ROYAL DAMES OF CANCER RESEARCH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $31k · revenue +23%
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
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
2
Florida Research Center for Agricultural Sustainability Inc
Philanthropy
3
South Florida Day of Caring Inc

To educate, empower and give hope to everyone touched by breast cancer.

Education
4
Grand Lodge of Florida Museum & Library Inc
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5
Mote Marine Laboratory Inc

The advancement of marine and environmental sciences through scientific research, education and public outreach, leading new discoveries, revitalization and sustainability of our oceans and greater public understanding of our marine…

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6
The South Florida Charity Classic
Human Services
7
The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner
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8
Florida Breast Cancer Coalition Research Foundation Inc

To save the lives of those impacted by breast cancer by supporting sscientific research, community education, public policy through advocacy, and community-based organizations.

Health
9
Ministerios El Shaddai Florida Inc

Church teaching the word of god to the community

Religion
10
Dermatology Foundation of South Fl

The primary purpose of the foundation is to promote research, development, and growth of dermatology and related sciences.

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11
The Womens Care Florida Foundation
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12
The Everglades Foundation Inc

The mission of the foundation is to restore and protect america's everglades through its three programmatic pillars: science, advocacy and education. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Christian Community Association of South Florida Inc; the most unlike its peers is United Servants Abroad 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

9 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. 9 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROWARD EDUCATION FOUNDATIONDEBATE: $55,000 · OtherBROWARD EDUCATION FOUNDATIONDEBATEBROWARD EDUCATION PERFORMING ARTS F: $50,000 · OtherBROWARD EDUCATION PERFORMING ARTS FBROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · OtherBROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INCOcala Royal Dames For Cancer Research Inc: $30,600 · OtherOcala Royal Dames For Cancer Research IncIMMERSE CHURCH INC: $30,000 · OtherIMMERSE CHURCH INCWESTMINSTER ACADEMY EDUCATIONAL FOU: $26,054 · OtherWESTMINSTER ACADEMY EDUCATIONAL FOUFAVOR INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 · OtherFAVOR INTERNATIONALNSU ART MUSEUM FORT LAUDERDALE: $11,500 · Other+3 more: $10,000 · OtherGOOD NEWS FISHING MINISTRIES INC: $137,500 · ReligionGOOD NEWS FISHING MINISTRIES INCTHE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $100,000 · ReligionTHE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF SO…UNITED SERVANTS ABROAD INC: $67,000 · InternationalUNITED SERV…ROYAL DAMES OF CANCER RESEARCH INC: $30,600 · HealthMUSEUM OF DISCOVERY AND SCIENCE INC: $19,500 · Arts & CultureHELPING HANDS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$288,154Religion$237,500International$67,000Health$30,600Arts & Culture$19,500Housing & Shelter$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGOOD NEWS FISHING MINISTRIES INC: $137,500 over 5y, 82% of budgetTHE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $100,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetUNITED SERVANTS ABROAD INC: $67,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetBROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOcala Royal Dames For Cancer Research Inc: $30,600 over 2y, 12% of budgetROYAL DAMES OF CANCER RESEARCH INC: $30,600 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetMUSEUM OF DISCOVERY AND SCIENCE INC: $19,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHELPING HANDS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDAVIE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.3% 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.

Natl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA7.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 M & Blanche C Forman Christian Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hamilton M & Blanche C Forman Christian Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Museum of Discovery and Science Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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