How much does The Hampton Family Foundation give?

The Hampton Family Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $256,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Hampton Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Health (13%), Human Services (11%).

Who are The Hampton Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Nebraska Foundation ($274k), Centerpointe Inc ($107k), People's City Mission ($66k).

Does The Hampton Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Hampton Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Hampton Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, Assurity Life Foundation, Abel Foundation.

Where is The Hampton Family Foundation based?

The Hampton Family Foundation is based in NE.

The Hampton Family Foundation

The Hampton Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Hampton Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$257k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$45k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$570kHealth$189kHuman Services$149kHousing & Shelter$119kYouth Development$75kArts & Culture$74kEmployment$47kAnimals$33kOther$0

02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k27 grants · $128k
$10k–50k6 grants · $129k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FDN	$45,000
CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES	$25,000
SECC FOUNDATION	$25,000
FDN LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOL	$12,500
PEOPLE'S CITY MISSION	$10,500
Individual grant recipient	$10,500
CLINIC WITH A HEART	$9,000
YMCA OF LINCOLN	$8,500
LINCOLN CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER INC	$8,500
JR ACHIEVEMENT	$8,500
FOSTER CARE CLOSET	$8,500
FDN LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOL	$6,000
CENTERPOINTE	$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FDN	$5,000
BRIGHT LIGHTS	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $104k) 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.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of The Hampton Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NE; by stated purpose, 92%.

The Hampton Family Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.4M · 34 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against -46% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%

-46%

Still filing today

68%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

UO
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $274k · revenue +70%
CI
CENTERPOINTE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +109%
PC
PEOPLE'S CITY MISSION
9× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +55%

Funded once

NF
NEBRASKALAND FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue -46%
NT
NEBRASKA TRAILS FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -88%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS LINCOLNLANC CO
one grant, 2024 · $5k

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.

04Its field

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.

Lincoln County Community Development Corporation

To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.

Philanthropy

Educare of Lincoln Inc

To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.

Education

Lincoln University Aka Lincoln College

Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential

Education

Lincoln Medical Education Partnership

To provide family practice training and, in support of that end, relevant healthcare education and services.

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Lincoln Children's Museum

The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.

Arts & Culture

Nebraska Children & Families Foundation

Nebraska children's mission is to create positive change for children through community engagement. our vision is a nebraska where all children will have the resources and support to reach their full potential. our values are (1)…

Philanthropy

Lincoln Behavioral Services

To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…

Health

Omaha Church Center Inc

None

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Nebraska Credit Union League Inc

To promote credit unions in nebraska

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Urban League of Nebraska

The mission of the urban league of nebraska is to be an empowering voice in the community advocating for economic self-reliance, parity, power, civil rights and equal opportunity for all (see schedule o). the vision of the urban league of…

Human Services

Lincoln Central Neighborhood Family Center

To provide programs for the residents in the lincoln/central school area.

Community Improvement

The Christ Lutheran Foundation

Organized for charitable, religious, and educational purposes; the foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the benefit of christ lincoln church in lincoln, nebraska (a nebraska non-profit religious corporation).

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Family Services of Ne Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cedars Youth Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 41 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

19/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$546,500Education$373,000Health$149,000Human Services$131,000Arts & Culture$100,500Housing & Shelter$66,000Animals$33,000

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.

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.

Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE50× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Assurity Life Foundation · Abel Foundation · Cooper Foundation · D F Dillon Foundation · United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County · Spreetail Foundation · Moeller Charitable Trust · Olsson Family Foundation · Rogers Foundation · Bettenhausen Family Foundation · Firespring Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Hampton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hampton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

10report 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

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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