· Private foundation
Joann Hamilton Memorial Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| OREGON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND | $2,500 |
| SMITH COLLEGE | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 3% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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.
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 43 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joann Hamilton Memorial Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joann Hamilton Memorial Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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