· Private foundation
Mark & Elizabeth Hamlin 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY | $60,000 |
| BLUECOATS INC | $16,500 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| WOODLANDS ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| SOUTH STREET MINISTRIES | $3,047 |
| SAFETY FORCES SUPPORT CENTER | $2,500 |
| LOVE AKRON | $2,500 |
| PORTAGE PATH BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $1,000 |
| JR LEAGUE OF AKRON | $1,000 |
| VIRGINIA DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- CUCOLGATE UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2025 · $318k · revenue +80%
- WRWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY5× · 2020–2025 · $85k · revenue +56%
- BIBLUECOATS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $62k · revenue +234%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINAone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -10%
- CCCLEVELAND CLINIC CHILDRENS HOSPITALone grant, 2022 · $12k
- TPTHE PRESIDENT'S CIRCLE NASone grant, 2017 · $10k
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 college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community. (continued on schedule o)we engage motivated students in a…
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…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Summit academy charter school bridges the gap between aspirations and reality by preparing sixth through twelfth-grade students to gain acceptance to, excel in, and graduate from college by using three pillars of success: mastery of core…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
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…
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
To enhance the quality of law and justice through community service and to maintain the integrity of the profession.
The columbus academy aspires to be an inclusive community where all differences consistent with the mission of the school are valued, respected, and integrated into the education process.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Akron Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Stephen a Comunale Jr Charitable Foundation. 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 51 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 30 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 COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BLUECOATS INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE STEPHEN A COMUNALE JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STAY-FOCUSED INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA ↗
- Who funds THE AKRON GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds Junior League of Akron Ohio Inc ↗
- Who funds PORTAGE PATH BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds SOUTH STREET MNISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO CLASSICAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LOVE AKRON INC ↗
- Who funds Truly Reaching You Inc ↗
- Who funds SAFETY FORCES SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jackson Hole Community School ↗
- Who funds SEBASTIAN RIDING ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds KAPPA ALPHA THETA 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: Akron Community Foundation · The Patricia & J Harvey Graves Family Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Richard M & Yvonne Hamlin Foundation · W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · United Way of Summit and Medina · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · The Feth Family 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 Mark & Elizabeth Hamlin Family Foundation 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.
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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