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The Hamels Foundation Inc

The hamels foudation is dedicated to enriching the lives of children through the power of education by giving them the tools they need to achieve their goals.

$65k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$64k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$441kEducation$249kPhilanthropy$22kRecreation & Sports$20k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $63,853, the rows itemized in this filing. The $65,383 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,530 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$63,853
Median grant
1
States reached
$741k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLOBAL AIDS INTERFAITH ALLIANCE$63,853
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 31% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%YACHT STOCK INC: $6k → 10%WALTER B SAUL HIGH SCHOOL: $96k → 22%GLOBAL AIDS INTERFAITH ALLIANCE (GAIA): $81k → 8%FORMIDABLE JOY: $6k → 14%SPRINGFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $6k → 15%COBB CO PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUC FDN: $23k → 8%PEOPLES MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $10k → 14%CHIP N FORE HEROES: $10k → 15%SLAYBAUGH ELEMENTARY: $10k → 11%NEWTOWN EDGMONT LITTLE LEAGUE (NELL): $20k → 10%WALTER B SAUL HIGH SCHOOL: $43k → 22%GLOBAL AIDS INTERFAITH ALLIANCE (GAIA): $67k → 8%MICHAEL YOUNG FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%FREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $5k → 15%AMY NORTHWEST: $20k → 22%GLOBAL AIDS INTERFAITH ALLIANCE: $64k → 8%AMY MIDDLE SCHOOL: $13k → 22%GLOBAL AIDS INTERFAITH ALLIANCE: $59k → 8%GLOBAL AIDS INTERFAITH ALLIANCE (GAIA): $59k → 8%GLOBAL AIDS INTERFAITH ALLIANCE (GAIA): $46k → 8%GLOBAL AIDS INTERFAITH ALLIANCE (GAIA): $35k → 8%GLOBAL AIDS INTERFAITH ALLIANCE (GAIA): $31k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
PA
NJ
CA
MO
MS
GA
TX
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.
03Its 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
Mlb-Mlbpa Youth Development Foundation
Recreation & Sports
2
Michael S Jacobs Foundation

Scholarship awards to youth and high school baseball players

Education
3
Fender Play Foundation
Arts & Culture
4
Montgomery County Public Schools Educational Foundation Inc

Montgomery County Public Schools Educational Foundation (MCPSEF) supports student success in MCPS by funding special and innovative programs that regular funds cannot support.

Education
5
Billy D Foundation

Tuition scholarships for students at St Michael Special School

Education
6
Legacy Youth Sports Fellowship

Fostering youth sports and competition

Recreation & Sports
7
Motorola Solutions Foundation
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8
Citybridge Foundation
Health
9
Pleasanton Isd Education Foundation

Educational Excellence

Education
10
Philly Baer Foundation
Philanthropy
11
The Will Smith Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
12
United States Marines Youth Foundation Inc

To support worthy programs which promote youth physical fitness in schools across the US as well as sponsor the Semper Fidelis Award for Musical Excellence, honoring outstanding high school musicians around the country.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cobb County Public Schools Educational Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Formidable Joy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GLOBAL AIDS INTERFAITH ALLIANCE (GAIA): $441,102 · InternationalGLOBAL AIDS INTERFAITH ALLIANCE (GAIA)Communities in Schools of Philadelphia Inc: $171,684 · EducationCommunities in Schools of Phila…COBB COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 · EducationCOBB COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUC…TEXAS RANGERS BASEBALL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationNEWTOWN EDGMONT LITTLE LEAGUE: $20,000 · OtherCHIP N FORE HEROES: $10,000 · OtherSLAYBAUGH ELEMENTARY: $10,000 · OtherSpringfield Public Schools: $5,366 · OtherMICHAEL YOUNG FAMILY FOUNDATION: $13,294 · PhilanthropyYacht Stock Inc: $6,200 · PhilanthropyFORMIDABLE JOY: $6,000 · PhilanthropyThe People's Music School: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFoundation for Springfield Public Schools: $6,300 · Health
International$441,102Education$204,184Other$45,366Philanthropy$25,494Arts & Culture$10,000Health$6,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGLOBAL AIDS INTERFAITH ALLIANCE (GAIA): $441,102 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Philadelphia Inc: $171,684 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCOBB COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNEWTOWN EDGMONT LITTLE LEAGUE: $20,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMICHAEL YOUNG FAMILY FOUNDATION: $13,294 over 1y, 30% of budgetThe People's Music School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFoundation for Springfield Public Schools: $6,300 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFORMIDABLE JOY: $6,000 over 1y, 2.4% 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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 The Hamels Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hamels Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–5%
    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.
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    How do I get to The Hamels Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Hamels Foundation Inc 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 13 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 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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