· Private foundation
The Hamer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 20TH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH | $15,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER | $11,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $10,000 |
| KENOVA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $10,000 |
| LIFE OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| HOSPICE OF HUNTINGTON | $8,305 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $7,000 |
| HUNTINGTON CITY MISSION | $7,000 |
| K-LOVE MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
| JERUSALEM PRAYER TEAM | $6,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS | $5,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $5,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF KENOVA | $5,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of your 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 +53% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 15 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- IFINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC5× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +102%
- HOHOSPICE OF HUNTINGTON INC3× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue +66%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE3× · 2019–2025 · $13k · revenue +151%
Funded once
- FIFIRST INDEPENDENT MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $24k
- CWC-K WAR MEMORIALone grant, 2018 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $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 fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
One for israel's purposes are to unite u.s. and international churches, ministries and individuals for the proclamation of the gospel in israel, to raise funds for evangelism and gospel proclamation, to provide tangible relief for israel's…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
To provide support for the efforts of christians of the former soviet union in reaching the influencers of their countries for christ.
The Signatry advances the Christian faith by carrying out its mission, "to inspire and facilitate revolutionary biblical generosity across generations to solve the world's greatest problems," through financial and other support of I.R.C.…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Distribution of newsletters, production of dvds, cds and publications carrying the message of jesus christ and the kingdom of god to the people throughout the world.
World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is C- K Autumn Fest Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 67 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 KENOVA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF HUNTINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Tri State Inc ↗
- Who funds LOXAHATCHEE CLUB EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FACING HUNGER FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds C- K AUTUMN FEST INC ↗
- Who funds JASON LOVINS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
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: Brown Dog Yoga Foundation · Board of Trustees of Prichard Schoo · United Way of the River Cities Inc · Foundation for the Tri-State Community Inc · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington West Virginia · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · American Electric Power Foundation · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust
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 The Hamer 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.