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Hannah L Hamlin Memorial Fund Inc 494 at a glance

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Hannah L Hamlin Memorial Fund Inc 494

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.

$43k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$43k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$209kArts & Culture$47kHealth$25kReligion$6kMembership Benefit$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$42,537
Median grant
1
States reached
$830k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SMETHPORT MEMORIAL RECREATION CENTER$42,537
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SMETHPORT MEMORIAL RECREATION CENTER: $43k → 15%SMETHPORT MEMORIAL RECREATION CENTER: $40k → 15%SMETHPORT MEMORIAL RECREATION CENTER: $35k → 15%SMETHPORT COUNTRY CLUB: $25k → 15%SMETHPORT MEMORIAL RECREATION CENTER: $10k → 15%SMETHPORT MEMORIAL RECREATION CENTER: $7k → 15%SMETHPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE: $6k → 15%ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $6k → 15%SMETHPORT MEMORIAL RECREATION CENTER: $4k → 15%ROSEHILL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $3k → 15%MCKEAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2k → 15%MCKEAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1k → 15%PENN-BRAD HISTORICAL OIL WELL CORP: $25k → 15%BRADFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%PENN-BRAD HISTORICAL OIL WELL CORP: $19k → 15%MCKEAN COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $5k → 15%MOUNT JEWETT TO KINZUA BRIDGE (MJ2KB) TR: $20k → 15%KINZUA VALLEY TRAIL CLUB: $13k → 15%KINZUA VALLEY TRAIL CLUB: $6k → 15%KINZUA VALLEY TRAIL CLUB: $1k → 15%KINZUA VALLEY TRAIL CLUB: $1k → 15%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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$206k · 4 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +202% since the first grant, against -24% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

$206k
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+202%
-24%

Still filing today

50%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • SM
    SMETHPORT MEMORIAL RECREATION CENTER
    6× · 2018–2025 · $139k
  • PB
    PENN BRAD HISTORICAL OIL WELL CORPORATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $44k · revenue +115%
  • KV
    KINZUA VALLEY TRAIL CLUB
    4× · 2017–2021 · $21k

Funded once

  • BH
    BRADFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -24%
  • SC
    SMETHPORT COUNTRY CLUB
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +18%
  • MJ
    MOUNT JEWETT TO KINZUA BRIDGE (MJ2KB) TR
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
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
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
3/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SMETHPORT MEMORIAL RECREATION CENTER: $138,595 · OtherSMETHPORT MEMORIAL RECREATION CENTERSMETHPORT COUNTRY CLUB: $25,000 · OtherSMETHPORT COUNTRY CLUBKINZUA VALLEY TRAIL CLUB: $20,591 · OtherKINZUA VALLEY TRAIL CLUBMOUNT JEWETT TO KINZUA BRIDGE (MJ2KB) TR: $20,091 · OtherMOUNT JEWETT TO KINZUA BRIDGE (MJ2KB) TR+4 more: $19,900 · Other+4 morePENN BRAD HISTORICAL OIL WELL CORPORATION: $43,500 · Arts & CulturePENN BRAD HISTORI…THE MCKEAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MCKEAN COUNTY…BRADFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthBRADFORD …
Other$224,177Arts & Culture$46,500Health$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRADFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSMETHPORT COUNTRY CLUB: $25,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetROSEHILL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC: $3,400 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE MCKEAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3,000 over 2y, 3.5% 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.

  • Who funds PENN BRAD HISTORICAL OIL WELL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds BRADFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SMETHPORT COUNTRY CLUB ↗
  • Who funds ROSEHILL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MCKEAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hannah L Hamlin Memorial Fund Inc 494 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hannah L Hamlin Memorial Fund Inc 494. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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