· Private foundation
The James and Angela Hambrick Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of THE JAMES AND ANGELA HAMBRICK FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
- $250k+6 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS | $750,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS | $250,000 |
| DELTA WATERFOWL | $250,000 |
| TEXAS A&M | $250,000 |
| HOSPICE OF WESTERN RESERVE | $250,000 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $250,000 |
| CLEVELAND FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| AIKEN HORSE PARK FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $50,000 |
| WINOUS POINT MARSH CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| INMOTION | $25,000 |
| VOCATIONAL SERVICES | $20,000 |
| YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $278k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CMCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +31%
- DWDelta Waterfowl Foundation7× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +128%
- CMCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2017–2023 · $725k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- WSWILD SALMON STRONGHOLD FUNDone grant, 2017 · $200k
- LFLubrizol Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +65%
- USURBAN SQUASH CLEVELANDone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -19%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.
The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
To hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.
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.
The mission of the corporation shall be to work with partners to protect and restore native ecosystems and watersheds, to improve the quality and quantity of freshwater resources to perpetuate hawaiian cultural resources and practices, to…
We connect your life to wildlife while inspiring lifelong learning and conservation action.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cleveland Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Aiken Horse Park Foundation. 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.
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 44 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
39 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. 39 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
- Who funds WINOUS POINT MARSH CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds AIKEN HORSE PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lubrizol Foundation ↗
- Who funds URBAN SQUASH CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds VOCATIONAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds AIKEN STEEPLECHASE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds COLD CREEK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REFORMED EVANGELISTIC FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds INMOTION ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds AIKEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN FEDERATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Connor Foundation · Susan & John Turben Foundation · Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds · Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation · Triple T Foundation · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 James and Angela Hambrick Foundation 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.
- Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
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.
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