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The Hamlin Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$18k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Health$106kEducation$94kPhilanthropy$86kPublic Benefit$68kRecreation & Sports$56kArts & Culture$21kAnimals$19kCrime & Legal$14kOther$0
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$12,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$626k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAIRNESS CENTER INC$12,500
COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC POLICY ALTERNAT$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILD RESCUE COALITION INC: $1k → 11%SILVER SPRINGS MARTIN LUTHER SCHOOL: $1k → 7%CHILD RESCUE COALITION INC: $1k → 11%SILVER SPRINGS MARTIN LUTHER SCHOOL: $1k → 7%CHILD RESCUE COALITION INC: $1k → 11%CHILDRENS VILLAGE: $1k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
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VA
MD
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OK
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$348k · 47 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

47 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 47 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
26

Total granted

$348k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+36%

Still filing today

94%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationPublic BenefitArts & CultureInternationalHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2019 · $100k · revenue +57%
  • LY
    Legacy Youth Tennis And Education Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $49k · revenue +112%
  • Conservative Partnership Institute
    3× · 2017–2020 · $35k · revenue +548%

Funded once

  • TP
    TURNING POINT USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue ×14
  • SY
    SAY YES TO EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -100%
  • TA
    THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +23%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
5
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lower Merion Conservancy. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and ShelterElementary Literacy TutoringYouth Sports ProgramsMilitary Veterans SupportFood Banks and PantriesIndependent K-12 SchoolsHealth Access Advocacy and …Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%36%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%48%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%22%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/73
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,492

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.

04the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 78 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/71
Grantees still filing
59/71
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATIONDonors Trust Inc — $72,000 · PhilanthropyDonors Trust IncTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $13,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE+1 more — $1,000 · PhilanthropyConservative Partnership Institute — $34,500 · EducationConservative Partnership …TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $32,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSIT…THE CHARACTER EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $17,500 · EducationTHE CHARACTER EDUCATION P…Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $5,500 · EducationEdChoice Inc — $4,000 · EducationKHAN ACADEMY INC — $4,000 · Education+8 more — $16,150 · Education+8 moreLegacy Youth Tennis And Education Inc — $49,000 · OtherLegacy Youth Tennis And Educat…TURNING POINT USA INC — $10,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCSAY YES TO EDUCATION INC — $5,000 · OtherCITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE — $5,000 · OtherUDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 · OtherLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA — $5,000 · Other+38 more — $61,187 · Other+38 moreJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $7,500 · Public BenefitMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $6,000 · Public BenefitTHE COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC POLICY ALTERNATIVES — $5,000 · Public BenefitCAPTAIN ERICK FOSTER MEMORIAL RIDE — $3,500 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTE — $2,500 · Public BenefitPROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER — $1,500 · Public Benefit+1 more — $200 · Public BenefitLemur Conservation Foundation Inc — $12,000 · Science & TechTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA — $5,000 · Science & TechMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER — $5,000 · Arts & CultureBRYN MAWR THEATRE FILM INSTITUTE — $4,000 · Arts & CultureALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 · Arts & CultureLOWER MERION CONSERVANCY — $1,900 · Arts & CultureENGLISH FIRST FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FAIRNESS CENTER INC — $12,500 · Crime & LegalMOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING — $1,500 · Crime & Legal
Philanthropy$186,000Education$114,150Other$140,187Public Benefit$26,200Science & Tech$17,000Arts & Culture$15,400Crime & Legal$14,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDonors Trust Inc — $72,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLegacy Youth Tennis And Education Inc — $49,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetConservative Partnership Institute — $34,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $32,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHARACTER EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $17,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAIRNESS CENTER INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLemur Conservation Foundation Inc — $12,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC POLICY ALTERNATIVES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAY YES TO EDUCATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUR BLOCK FOUNDATION INC — $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEdChoice Inc — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC — $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRYN MAWR THEATRE FILM INSTITUTE — $4,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCAPTAIN ERICK FOSTER MEMORIAL RIDE — $3,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HOUSE INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $3,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST BOOK — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICE HOCKEY IN HARLEM INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHILD RESCUE COALITION INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED — $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNUMBERSUSA EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSQUASHSMARTS INC — $2,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGemma Services — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR TEACHING ECONOMICS — $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOWER MERION CONSERVANCY — $1,900 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $1,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance — $1,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING — $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Philadelphia Foun…Connelly FoundationThe William Penn Foun…Donors Trust IncThe Haldeman Family F…The Gordon Charter Fo…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…United Way of Greater…Grace S and W Linton …Adam and Maria Sarah …Sarah Scaife Foundati…The Cozen O'Connor Fo…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA21.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · The Haldeman Family Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Grace S and W Linton Nelson Foundation · Adam and Maria Sarah Seybert Institution for Poor Boys and Girls · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · The Cozen O'Connor Foundation Inc

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 Hamlin Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • Child Rescue Coalition Inc — 20% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Hamlin Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Hamlin Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

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