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Hummel Family Foundation

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.

$5.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$775k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$26MArts & Culture$2.3MHealth$1.5MFood & Nutrition$268kAnimals$103kYouth Development$64kPhilanthropy$10k
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $245k
  • $250k+9 grants · $4.8M
$60,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$83M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SPECIAL TRUST$775,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$750,000
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$750,000
ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY$500,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION$500,000
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$500,000
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$500,000
ST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTER$250,000
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$250,000
FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$100,000
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$85,000
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION$60,000
ROCKHURST HIGH SCHOOL$20,000
NATIONAL CATTLEMEN'S FOUNDATION$18,000
NOTRE DAME DE SION SCHOOL OF KANSAS CITY$10,000
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $500k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION: $205k → 9%FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $100k → 10%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $750k → 15%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART: $500k → 5%ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $500k → 15%FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $750k → 15%ST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $450k → 5%ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $500k → 15%FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $750k → 15%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART: $300k → 5%ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $500k → 15%FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $100k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $500k → 12%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $500k → 15%ST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $250k → 5%ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $500k → 15%FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $500k → 12%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $500k → 15%ST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $250k → 5%ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $500k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $500k → 12%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $500k → 15%ST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $250k → 5%ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $500k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $500k → 12%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $500k → 15%ST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $200k → 5%ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $500k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $500k → 12%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $500k → 15%ST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $200k → 5%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $750k → 12%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $496k → 15%ST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $137k → 5%ROCKHURST HIGH SCHOOL: $500k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $600k → 12%FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $100k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $500k → 12%FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $100k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $513k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $500k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $500k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $500k → 12%AIMS FOUNDATION: $100k → 9%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$35M · 27 repeat orgs$393k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against -79% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
4

Total granted

$35M
$318k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
-79%

Still filing today

63%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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

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EducationAnimalsFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentArts & 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

  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $4.5M · revenue +36%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.5M · revenue +33%
  • RU
    ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSISTY OF NORTHERN COLORADO BUSINESS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $200k
  • AF
    AIMS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -79%
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
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
2
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
3
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…

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4
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
5
Colorado Farm Bureau

To advance the interest of the colorado farm and ranch community. activities include research and inquiry into the fields of agriculture, industry, commerce, transportation, economic and political relations.

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6
North Dakota State University Foundation

Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.

Education
7
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
8
Washburn University Foundation

The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.

Education
9
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
10
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
11
Washington State University Foundation

The mission of the Foundation is to promote, accept, and maximize private support for programs, initiatives, and properties of Washington State University and its regional campuses. The Foundation also prudently manages, invests, and…

Education
12
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado State University Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Rocky Mountain Horse Rescue. 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

20 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. 20 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $4,501,000 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $4,500,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVERROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $4,015,000 · EducationROCKHURST UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $3,862,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION: $3,710,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATIONCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,250,000 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION+2 more: $360,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $3,100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURICURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SPECIAL TR: $2,285,000 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOU…ST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $1,737,000 · OtherST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTERCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,540,000 · OtherCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITYTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,056,470 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYROCKHURST HIGH SCHOOL: $621,000 · OtherROCKHURST HIGH SCHOOLFRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $400,000 · Other+11 more: $582,000 · OtherNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES: $800,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $175,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY: $31,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $13,500 · Food & NutritionWELD FOOD BANK: $13,500 · Food & NutritionPAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES: $15,000 · AnimalsROCKY MOUNTAIN HORSE RESCUE: $10,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Education$23,198,500Other$11,321,470Arts & Culture$800,000Youth Development$206,000Food & Nutrition$27,000Animals$25,000Health$10,000Philanthropy$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $4,501,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $4,500,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $4,015,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $3,862,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION: $3,710,000 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,250,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES: $800,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetFRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetCOLORADO FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetNATIONAL CATTLEMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY: $31,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY INC: $31,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWELD FOOD BANK: $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF WELD COUNTY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN HORSE RESCUE: $10,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
  • Who funds FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CATTLEMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds PAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
  • Who funds WELD FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF WELD COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN HORSE RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Community Foundation …Otter Cares Foundatio…Adolph Coors Foundati…Anschutz Family Found…Nebraska Community Fo…Gates Family Foundati…Daniels FundEl Pomar FoundationXcel Energy FoundationMile High United Way …The Blackbaud Giving …
Colorado Gives FoundationCO18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Adolph Coors Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Daniels Fund · El Pomar Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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 Hummel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hummel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Hummel Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hummel Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 35 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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