Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Hamer Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2024
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $680,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 44
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $62M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations The Hamer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 41 | $4.7M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $5.0M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $6.3M | 16% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $6.8M | 17% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $5.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Clearwater Conservancy of Central Pennsylvania Inc | $2,741,667 | 5 | 49% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $2,661,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Centre Volunteers in Medicine | $1,590,000 | 5 | 58% |
| Centre County United Way | $740,000 | 5 | 14% |
| Schlow Memorial Library | $548,530 | 5 | n/a |
| Food Bank of the State College Area Inc | $535,000 | 5 | 13% |
| Chesapeake Conservancy Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 2% |
| University of Chicago | $450,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Iup Research Institute | $337,500 | 3 | 2% |
| The Center Foundation | $300,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($15M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Hamer Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Centre Foundation Inc · Northwest Charitable Foundation · The Blake and Linda Gall Family Foundation · Centre County United Way · The Happy Valley Adventure Bureau · The Poole Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Glenn O and Thelma M Hawbaker Family Foundation · The Louis E Silvi Foundation · Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds · Ferguson Foundation Inc · Port Family Foundation
How this is measured
About The Hamer Foundation
- How much does The Hamer Foundation give?
- The Hamer Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $4,785,119 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 44 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Hamer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (52%), Education (17%), Health (8%).
- Who are The Hamer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Clearwater Conservancy of Central Pennsylvania Inc ($2.7M), World Wildlife Fund Inc ($2.7M), Centre Volunteers in Medicine ($1.6M).
- Does The Hamer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 16% 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 Centre Foundation Inc, Northwest Charitable Foundation, The Blake and Linda Gall Family Foundation.
- Where is The Hamer Foundation based?
- The Hamer Foundation is based in PA.
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