· Private foundation
Jim & Kristen Hamel Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Casa Guadalupe Education Center | $50,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity of WA & Dodge Co | $30,000 |
| The National Horse Show (NHS) | $25,000 |
| Secure Futures | $25,000 |
| Mitchell School Booster Club | $25,000 |
| Family Promise of Washington County | $20,000 |
| Glenayre Equestrian Program | $10,000 |
| Family Promise | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Washington County | $10,000 |
| Danny and Ron's Rescue | $7,500 |
| Wheeler County Fire & Rescue | $5,500 |
| Wheeler County Communities | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Lincoln High School Matbackers | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $288k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +86% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2025 · $125k · revenue +115%- CCCOMMUNITY COUNSELING SOLUTIONS3× · 2017–2020 · $105k · revenue +417%
CASA GUADALUPE EDUCATION CENTER INC4× · 2019–2025 · $103k · revenue +128%
Funded once
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INCone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +7% · 26% of their budget
- UUSHJAone grant, 2023 · $30k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INCone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +22%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
PAWS cares for lost, abandoned and abused animals and finds them new homes with responsible owners. PAWS also provides low cost spay and neuter services, a pet food pantry, and community education. During 2024 PAWS adopted out 577 pets.…
Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…
Continue to provide rescues of horses,donkeys, and large dogs
Humane society providing animal stray service and animal care including adoptions, redemptions, and surrenders for residents located in dodge county, wi and surrounding areas.
Our mission is to empower WI Habitat for Humanity affiliates to create one voice that advocates and influences affordable home ownership.
To create and support one-on-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
To provide services for abandoned, stray or unwanted animals while they await life long homes. our vision is that all animals are cared for with dignity and respect.
Danbury animal welfare society , inc.(daws) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of animals in our community and beyond. we promote responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals, and work toward…
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth
Helping hounds dog rescue provides a compassionate approach to dog rescue by matching homeless dogs from overcrowded shelter systems with loving homes.
CFS seeks to inspire veterans through life-changing canine partnerships.
Our mission is to help herding dogs who are abandoned, neglected and abused or simply in the wrong home into a loving appropriate home.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Washington County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Peeps Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 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. 19 of the 52 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COUNSELING SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds CASA GUADALUPE EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds USHJA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RICHFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DANNY & RONS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds GLENEAYRE EQUESTRIAN PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds Veterans Outreach of Wisconsin ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS WI SHORELINE INC ↗
- Who funds Peeps Foundation Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Jim & Kristen Hamel Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Community Counseling Solutions — 14% of income from government
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.
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