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· Private foundation
THE HAMELIN FOUNDATION TRUST
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$35k
Granted FY2024
11
Grants
3
Communities
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0171% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Education$29kArts & Culture$25kCommunity Improvement$20kAnimals$10kEnvironment$7kHuman Services$2kFood & Nutrition$1kPhilanthropy$1kOther$39k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
table
2019
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2020
table
2021
—
2022
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 11 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$633k
Total assets
Largest grants
- ORCAT$10,000
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS$5,500
- APPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE$5,000
- MIAMI CITY BALLET$5,000
- HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVERS$3,150
- EVERGLADES FOUNDATION$2,500
- RANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL$1,500
- FAIRCHILD TROPICAL GARDENS$1,000
- PLYMOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH$500
- CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR$500
- PI BETA PHI FOUNDATION$500
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$99k · 11 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
11
11
Total granted
$99k
$13k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+35%
+53%
Still filing today
64%
27%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementAnimalsEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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
- RERANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL6× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +75%
- BUBROWN UNIVERSITY4× · 2019–2022 · $20k · revenue +19%
- MCMIAMI CITY BALLET3× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- OROCEAN REEF MEDICAL ASSOCone grant, 2017 · $5k
- HCHIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FDNgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +1373%
- LMLEES MCRAE COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +17%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
University of Miami
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2
Rollins College
Rollins College educates students for global citizenship and responsible leadership, empowering graduates to pursue meaningful lives and productive careers. We are committed to liberal arts ethos and guided by its values.
Education
3
Simpson College
A residential, coeducation, undergraduate liberal arts college.
Education
4
Regents of the Mercersburg College
Mercersburg academy is a student-centered school that allows students to define themselves through the establishment of meaningful relationships and exposure to a vast range of academic, extra-curricular, and co-curricular opportunities.…
Education
5
Boston Architectural College
Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…
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6
Bryn Mawr College
Provide a rigorous education and encourage pursuit of knowledge as preparation for life and work.
Education
7
University of Florida
To assist the university of florida in funding of research & development through grants & contractual arrangements & in the commercialization of intellectual properties, which include inventions, discoveries, processes, & work products.
Education
8
Barton College
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Education
9
University of Southern California
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Education
10
Trinity College of Florida Inc
A private, four-year college that provides higher education in three academic disciplines.
Education
11
Florida Southern College
Private united methodist affiliated college that is committed to educational excellence.
Education
12
Muhlenberg College
Muhlenberg aims to help students become independent critical thinkers who are intellectually agile, characterized by a zest for reasoned and civil debate, knowledgeable about the achievements and traditions of diverse civilizations and…
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Everglades Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Scripps College. 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
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$40,500Education$28,700Arts & Culture$25,000Community Improvement$20,000Animals$10,000Environment$6,500Human Services$1,600
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 RANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CITY BALLET ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GRAND OPERA ↗
- Who funds ORCAT ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCRIPPS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FDN ↗
- Who funds LEES MCRAE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds A PLACE AT THE TABLE ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF MIAMI FDN ↗
- Who funds PI BETA PHI FOUNDATION ↗
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.
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 organisation THE HAMELIN FOUNDATION TRUST 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.
2024
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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: JUNIOR LEAGUE OF MIAMI FDN.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~42 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +53% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 201213167 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on JUNIOR LEAGUE OF MIAMI FDN, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 42 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Hamelin Foundation Trust?
Find your warmest path to The Hamelin Foundation Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines