· Private foundation
The Hamilton Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MARYLAND THEATRE | $10,000 |
| BARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON C | $3,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL | $3,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $1,500 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $1,500 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WASH CO | $1,000 |
| BUTTONWOOD NATURE CENTER | $1,000 |
| RELIGIOUS EFFORT TO ASSIST & CARE | $1,000 |
| ANTIETAM HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| FORT RITCHIE COMMUNITY CENTER CORP | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TMTelluride Mountain Club2× · 2018–2021 · $75k · revenue +782% · 66% of their budget
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +52%
- WCWASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS2× · 2017–2023 · $35k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- WCWASH CO COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCILone grant, 2018 · $16k
- CSCOLLEGIUM SANCTORUM ANGELORUMgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +34%
- COCITY OF HAGERSTOWNone grant, 2017 · $6k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The organization provides programs and services that meet the business and professional needs of its members while promoting efforts to make the community a great place to live and work.
To promote and advance the interest of the washington county business community.
Rescue and care for stray or unwanted animals.
The washington county historical societys mission is to forge meaningful connections across generations to washington countys hard-working legacy.
To represent the business community of howard county, maryland
Preserve the history of Harford County, Maryland
Provide behavioral guidance and promote health, social, educational and vocational development of boys and girls six to eighteen years of age.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.
Historical museum & educational society
To advocate for a vibrant regioinal economy and improve the community's quality of life by strengthening our member businesses. the chamber is the major community catalyst and convener, creating an equitable, diverse, inclusive, and…
To educate children and adults about our natural world, preserve the land and its legacy for future generations and model responsible stewardship of our environment.
To support the washington county historical society inc
How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 64 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Telluride Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ARC OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY STATION AT HAGERSTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds SAN MAR CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BROOK LANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIUM SANCTORUM ANGELORUM ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds FORT RITCHIE COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Washington County Maryland Inc ↗
- Who funds MCCONNELLSBURG RECREATION CENTER IN ↗
- Who funds BUTTONWOOD NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RENFREW COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKES HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Inc · Alice V & David W Fletcher Foundation Inc · The John R Hershey and Anna L Hershey Family Foundation Inc · Richard N Funkhouser Foundationinc · The Jone L Bowman Foundation Inc · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · Irving M Einbinder Charitable Foundation Incorporated · W Lee & Rosalie Ridenour Foundation Inc · Kershner Sisters Foundation · Holzapfel Family Charitable Foundation C/O James Holzapfel · Albert E & Naomi B Sinnisen Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hamilton Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hamilton Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Washington County Arts Council Inc: 56% of income from government
- San Mar Children's Home Inc: 29% of income from government
- Maryland Symphony Orchestra Inc: 5% of income from government
- Washington County Museum of Fine Arts: 2% of income from government
- Star Community Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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