· Private foundation
The Jeanne G Hamilton and Lawson W Hamilton Jr 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of THE JEANNE G HAMILTON AND LAWSON W HAMILTON JR FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’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 $10k20 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $533k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WVU FOUNDATION CANCER INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| WVU FOUNDATION CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| HOOPS FAMILY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER | $50,000 |
| APPALACHIAN LEADERSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $46,000 |
| CASA OF THE 11TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT | $30,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WV | $30,000 |
| GREENBRIER COUNTY 4-H LEADERS ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREENBRIER COUNTY | $30,000 |
| CARNEGIE HALL | $25,000 |
| LARRY JOE HARLESS COMMUNITY CENTER | $25,000 |
| WVU FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| GREENBRIER REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY | $20,000 |
| GREENBRIER VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BIG CREEK PEOPLE IN ACTION | $17,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $688k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 22%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +27% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 6 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k 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
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +22%
- CHCARNEGIE HALL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $210k · revenue +58%
- CICommunities In Schools of Greenbrier County Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +258%
Funded once
- WCWVU CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $50k
- WUWV UNIVERSITY EYE INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $50k
- WFWVSOM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $20k
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.
Gvrp, inc. is an entity focused on watershed protection and sustainable community development. gvrp is concentrating its initial efforts in two areas: public fundraising and development of a community center and charitable open space in…
Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv
To act as the economic development arm of the gcra by bringing economic opportunity to disadvantaged areas of greenville county.
To provide leadership and to promote orderly community development.
Provide childd care services and preschool for children birth to age 12
To be clearly recognized as the most effective way to serve the most people through organizing voluntary efforts aimed at strengthening the Greene County community.
Provide homemaker and case management services to home-bound seniors and disabled members in west virginia. provide, also, training and job assistance to those 55 and older on a limited income.
Supervision of child care providers
Provide services to senior citizens of Summers County, West Virginia.
To provide services to the senior citizens of Pocahontas County, West Virginia
Providing youth recreation & lodging
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Greenbrier Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lewisburg Foundation Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 90 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 THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds GREENBRIER REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE HALL INC ↗
- Who funds Communities In Schools of Greenbrier County Inc ↗
- Who funds DAVIS-STUART INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON LIGHT OPERA GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds BRONXWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Child and Youth Advocacy Center ↗
- Who funds BIG CREEK PEOPLE IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE GREENBRIER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY REFUGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREENBRIER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GREENBRIER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GREENBRIER COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds GREENBRIER COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING OF GREENBRIER 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: The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Hollowell Dawkins Foundation Inc · The Daywood Foundationinc · Tgkvf Inc · Mary B Nickell Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greenbrier Valley Inc · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Seneca Trail Charitable Foundation · Peoples Bank Foundation · Marie Leist Foundation Inc · The Greater Greenbrier Valley
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 Jeanne G Hamilton and Lawson W Hamilton Jr 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.
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.