· Private foundation
Joann Hamilton Memorial Fund
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $20,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $18,000 |
| OREGON COAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| LINN BENTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $6,667 |
| BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| LINFIELD UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $3,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE USA FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| SOUTHERN VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| SMITH COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| OREGON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 3% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
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
- PUPACIFIC UNIVERSITY4× · 2018–2024 · $9k · revenue +10%
- LULinfield University3× · 2019–2025 · $8k · revenue +6%
- WCWellesley College2× · 2024–2025 · $7k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- PCPASADENA CITY COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $4k
- EAEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +23%
- MHMT HOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
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…
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.
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…
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Linfield University and the most unlike its peers is Concordia University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 43 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 CORBAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Linfield University ↗
- Who funds LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE USA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The College of Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds Southern New Hampshire University ↗
- Who funds GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Leo Adler Trust · Elwell-Colvin Scholarship Fund · Al & Ib Thomas Ed'L Fd · Amy Heryford Ousley and James Heryford Ousley · Eminger Stewart Foundation Uma · Wayne C Stewart Foundation Uma · West Scholarship Fnd · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Joann Hamilton Memorial Fund 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.
- Linfield University — 4% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
- Corban University — 3% of income from government
- Pacific University — 2% of income from government
- George Fox University — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% 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.