West Virginia · Private foundation
The Hamer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $135k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Hamer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $135k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $128k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $109k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $50k | 46% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $77k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $131k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $90k | 41% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $118k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenova Volunteer Fire Dept | $81,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Life Outreach International Association of Churches Inc | $26,280 | 4 | n/a |
| First Independent Missionary Baptist Church | $23,500 | 1 | n/a |
| International Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc | $18,700 | 5 | 0% |
| Hospice of Huntington Inc | $17,610 | 3 | 0% |
| St Labre Indian School | $15,100 | 4 | n/a |
| Wycliffe Associates Inc | $14,000 | 5 | n/a |
| The George W Bush Foundation | $13,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $13,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Tri State Inc | $11,500 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($535k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Hamer Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About The Hamer Foundation
- How much does The Hamer Foundation give?
- The Hamer Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $135,305 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Hamer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (63%), Public Safety & Disaster (10%), Education (8%).
- Who are The Hamer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Kenova Volunteer Fire Dept ($81k), Life Outreach International Association of Churches Inc ($26k), First Independent Missionary Baptist Church ($24k).
- Does The Hamer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Hamer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Hamer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Brown Dog Yoga Foundation, Board of Trustees of Prichard Schoo, United Way of the River Cities Inc.
- Where is The Hamer Foundation based?
- The Hamer Foundation is based in WV.
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