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Richard M & Yvonne Hamlin Foundation at a glance

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Richard M & Yvonne Hamlin Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$130k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$306kReligion$250kHealth$146kArts & Culture$120kPhilanthropy$49kHuman Services$34kYouth Development$19kEnvironment$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$879k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$50,000
NORTHEAST OHIO CLASSICAL ACADEMY$25,000
HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION$25,000
OUR LADY OF THE ELMS$25,000
BLUECOATS INC$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%GRACE HOUSE AKRON: $10k → 13%GRACE HOUSE AKRON: $3k → 13%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 18% of Richard M & Yvonne Hamlin Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 72%.

Richard M & Yvonne Hamlin Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$604k · 15 repeat orgs$211k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against -30% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
11

Total granted

$604k
$161k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
-30%

Still filing today

60%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • WR
    WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $81k · revenue +18%
  • BI
    BLUECOATS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +234%
  • TS
    THE STEPHEN A COMUNALE JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2023 · $30k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • SF
    SUMMA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • AS
    AKRON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
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
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
2
Trustees of Union College in the Town of Schenectady in the State of New York

Union college, chartered by the state of new york in 1795, is one of the nation's oldest and most distinguished liberal arts colleges with engineering. consistently ranked among the nation's top colleges, union is a leader in educating…

Education
3
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
4
The Huntington-Akron Foundation
Philanthropy
5
American College of Health Care Administrators

The american college of health care administrators (achca) is the catalyst for excellence in post-acute and aging services leadership.

Health
6
Akron Community Foundation

To identify, activate, and support informed and passionate philanthropists who strive to improve the quality of life in our community. we accomplish this by:- building a permanent source of charitable funding- cultivating strategic…

Philanthropy
7
Albert C Steele Memorial Scholarship
Education
8
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
9
Ray T Kest Old Newsboys Goodfellow Memorial Scholarship Fund
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10
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
11
The Gladstone Scholarship & Student Loan Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Pomona College

Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western Reserve Academy; 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.
05the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST SEBASTIAN CHURCH: $163,000 · OtherST SEBASTIAN CHURCHOUR LADY OF THE ELMS: $125,000 · OtherOUR LADY OF THE ELMSSUMMA FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherSUMMA FOUNDATIONCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONBLUECOATS INC: $31,500 · OtherBLUECOATS INCNAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $31,000 · OtherNAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONAKRON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FUND: $20,000 · Other+7 more: $43,950 · Other+7 moreHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $150,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY: $81,000 · EducationWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMYNORTHEAST OHIO CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $25,000 · EducationNORTHEAST OHIO CLASSICAL ACADE…+1 more: $250 · EducationUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA: $45,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …THE STEPHEN A COMUNALE JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyTHE STEPHEN…Spindletop Community Impact Partners Inc: $19,250 · PhilanthropySpindletop …HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesGRACE HOUSE AKRON INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesTHE AKRON GARDEN CLUB: $10,000 · EnvironmentKEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL: $1,000 · EnvironmentThe Virginia Home: $5,500 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $1,000 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $500 · HealthAKRON ROTARY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$554,450Education$256,250Philanthropy$94,250Human Services$37,500Environment$11,000Health$7,000Community Improvement$5,000

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 budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY: $81,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBLUECOATS INC: $31,500 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetTHE STEPHEN A COMUNALE JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpindletop Community Impact Partners Inc: $19,250 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGRACE HOUSE AKRON INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE AKRON GARDEN CLUB: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetThe Virginia Home: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAKRON ROTARY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetThe Collier County One Hundred Club Inc: $1,600 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $250 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.

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.

Mark & Elizabeth Haml…Akron Community Found…The Patricia & J Harv…H E Graves Jr Family …The Richard S and Ali…Mg O'Neil FoundationLehner Family Foundat…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Mark & Elizabeth Hamlin Family FoundationOH17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mark & Elizabeth Hamlin Family Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · The Patricia & J Harvey Graves Family Foundation · H E Graves Jr Family Foundation Inc · The Richard S and Alita Rogers Family Foundation · Mg O'Neil Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Richard M & Yvonne Hamlin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard M & Yvonne Hamlin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Richard M & Yvonne Hamlin Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Richard M & Yvonne Hamlin 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 29 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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