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Hammer Family Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$786k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$3.4MAnimals$288kPhilanthropy$116kYouth Development$80kArts & Culture$57kHealth$34kHuman Services$15kCivil Rights$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF GENERAL STUDIES$500,000
BAYPATH UNIVERSITY$150,000
GIRLS WRITE NOW$100,000
ST CHARLES FOUNDATION$25,000
IMENTOR INC$5,000
KQED$2,500
SOUTH FLORIDA PBS$2,500
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$1,000
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BAY PATH COLLEGE: $300k → 17%LUNG CANCER FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $60k → 10%KQED PUBLIC RADIO SAN FRANCISCO: $6k → 10%DISCOVERY LAND CO FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF: $5k → 14%GIRLS WRITE NOW: $100k → 17%SOUTH FLORIDA PBS: $3k → 15%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BEND OREGON: $10k → 10%THE WOODLAND SCHOOL: $5k → 9%BAY PATH COLLEGE: $275k → 17%EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $45k → 10%KQED PUBLIC RADIO--SAN FRANCISO: $5k → 10%GIRLS WRITE NOW: $10k → 17%NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN: $5k → 14%LITERACY COALITION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $40k → 11%FRIENDS OF WLRN: $25k → 15%ST CHARLES FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%BAY PATH COLLEGE: $240k → 17%KQED: $3k → 10%GIRLS WRITE NOW: $10k → 17%NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN: $2k → 14%LITERACY COALITION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $29k → 11%BAYPATH UNIVERSITY: $200k → 17%KQED PUBLIC RADIO--SAN FRANCISO: $3k → 10%GIRLS WRITE NOW: $8k → 17%LITERACY COALITION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $25k → 11%BAY PATH COLLEGE: $185k → 17%GIRLS WRITE NOW: $5k → 17%LITERACY COALITION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $20k → 11%BAY PATH COLLEGE: $160k → 17%GIRLS WRITE NOW: $5k → 17%PBX SOUTH FLORIDA-WXEL: $5k → 11%BAYPATH UNIVERSITY: $150k → 17%IMENTOR INC: $5k → 17%BAY PATH COLLEGE: $10k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF GENERAL STUDIES: $300k → 17%WXEL SOUTH FLORIDA PBS: $3k → 11%BAYPATH UNIVERSITY: $4k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $175k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $135k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $125k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $100k → 17%IMENTOR: $50k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF GENERAL STUDIES: $500k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF GENERAL STUDIES: $300k → 17%PARTNERSHIP FOR AFTER SCHOOL EDUCATION: $25k → 17%SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY: $20k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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CA
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.2M · 11 repeat orgs$163k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
17

Total granted

$3.2M
$132k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+27%

Still filing today

55%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • BP
    Bay Path University
    2× · 2023–2024 · $354k · revenue +69%
  • GW
    GIRLS WRITE NOW INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $138k · revenue +108%
  • II
    IMENTOR INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • SF
    SOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +27%
  • TP
    THE PARTNERSHIP FOR AFTER SCHOOL EDUCATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +31%
  • SF
    SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +125%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
5
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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6
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
8
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
9
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Npr International Operations Inc

Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.

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11
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
12
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

21 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. 21 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BAY PATH COLLEGE — $1,170,000 · OtherBAY PATH COLLEGECOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF GENERAL STUDIES — $1,100,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF GENERAL STUDIESPLACE OF HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE — $282,900 · OtherPLACE OF HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE+14 more — $64,052 · OtherTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $535,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSI…Bay Path University — $354,000 · EducationBay Path UniversityGIRLS WRITE NOW INC — $137,500 · EducationGIRLS WRITE NOW INCPalm Beach County Literacy Coalition Inc — $113,500 · EducationPalm Beach County Literacy Coalit…+2 more — $45,000 · EducationEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $105,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyIMENTOR INC — $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC — $25,000 · HealthSt Charles Foundation Inc — $25,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $3,550 · HealthNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED — $9,200 · Community ImprovementSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureKQED INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $1,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC — $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,616,952Education$1,185,000Philanthropy$115,000Youth Development$55,000Health$53,550Community Improvement$9,200Arts & Culture$7,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $535,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBay Path University — $354,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGIRLS WRITE NOW INC — $137,500 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetPalm Beach County Literacy Coalition Inc — $113,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $105,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIMENTOR INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PARTNERSHIP FOR AFTER SCHOOL EDUCATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSt Charles Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BEND — $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED — $9,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetValley of the Moon Children's Home Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $3,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE SNOW SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Hammer Family Charitable Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Bay Path University — 3% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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