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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 FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$10M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Hammer Family Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $209k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$786k50%
FY20235$569k40%
FY20227$620k57%
FY20215$381k60%
FY202014$526k64%
FY20199$287k33%
FY20187$195k29%
FY20175$37kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hammer Family Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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 budgetImentor Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 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 budgetSouth Florida Public Media Group Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 budgetDirect Relief: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetValley of the Moon Children's Home Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $3,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKqed Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Florida Pbs 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

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

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.

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About Hammer Family Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Hammer Family Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Hammer Family Charitable Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $786,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Hammer Family Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (85%), Animals (7%), Philanthropy (3%).
Who are Hammer Family Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Bay Path University ($354k), Girls Write Now Inc ($138k), Palm Beach County Literacy Coalition Inc ($114k).
Does Hammer Family Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hammer Family Charitable 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 Hammer Family Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Hammer Family Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Hammer Family Charitable Foundation Inc is based in IA.

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 34 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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