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The Jeanne G Hamilton and Lawson W Hamilton Jr Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$837k
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Health$1.7MHuman Services$886kArts & Culture$779kEducation$619kPublic Benefit$408kCrime & Legal$300kYouth Development$208kCivil Rights$120kOther$0
02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $104k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $533k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GREENBRIER COUNTY 4-H LEADERS ASSOCIATION$30,000
CASA OF THE 11TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT$30,000
CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WV$30,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREENBRIER COUNTY$30,000
CARNEGIE HALL$25,000
WVU FOUNDATION$25,000
LARRY JOE HARLESS COMMUNITY CENTER$25,000
GREENBRIER REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY$20,000
GREENBRIER VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$20,000
BIG CREEK PEOPLE IN ACTION$17,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 22%BRONXWORKS: $15k → 28%GREENBRIER COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING: $25k → 18%COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $2k → 21%BRONWORKS: $15k → 28%COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $1k → 21%BRONXWORKS: $15k → 28%COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $1k → 21%BRONWORKS: $15k → 28%BRONXWORKS: $15k → 28%BRONXWORKS: $15k → 28%GREENBRIER COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING: $5k → 18%BRONWORKS: $15k → 28%GREENBRIER COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING: $5k → 18%GREENBRIER COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING: $4k → 18%GREENBRIER COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING: $4k → 18%GREENBRIER COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING: $4k → 18%GREENBRIER COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING: $4k → 18%CHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH: $6k → 19%CHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH: $6k → 19%CHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH: $6k → 19%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WV: $30k → 18%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WV: $30k → 18%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WV: $30k → 18%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WV: $30k → 18%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WV: $30k → 18%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WV: $30k → 18%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WV: $30k → 18%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WV: $30k → 18%FAMILY REFUGE CENTER: $15k → 18%UNITED WAY OF GREENBRIER VALLEY: $15k → 18%UNITED WAY OF GREENBRIER VALLEY: $15k → 18%FAMILY REFUGE CENTER: $15k → 18%CHILD AND YOUTH ADVOCACY CENTER: $15k → 18%FAMILY REFUGE CENTER: $15k → 18%CHILD AND YOUTH ADVOCACY CENTER: $15k → 18%UNITED WAY OF GREENBRIER VALLEY: $15k → 18%FAMILY REFUGE CENTER: $15k → 18%CHILD AND YOUTH ADVOCACY CENTER: $15k → 18%UNITED WAY OF GREENBRIER VALLEY: $15k → 18%CHILD AND YOUTH ADVOCACY CENTER: $15k → 18%CHILD AND YOUTH ADVOCACY CENTER: $15k → 18%FAMILY REFUGE CENTER: $15k → 18%UNITED WAY OF GREENBRIER VALLEY: $15k → 18%UNITED WAY OF GREENBRIER VALLEY: $15k → 18%FAMILY REFUGE CENTER: $10k → 18%CHILD AND YOUTH ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 18%CHILD AND YOUTH ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.4M · 61 repeat orgs$370k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against -16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
22

Total granted

$5.4M
$225k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
-16%

Still filing today

44%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +22%
  • CH
    CARNEGIE HALL INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $210k · revenue +58%
  • CI
    Communities In Schools of Greenbrier County Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +258%

Funded once

  • WC
    WVU CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • WU
    WV UNIVERSITY EYE INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • WF
    WVSOM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
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.

1
Greenbrier Valley Restoration Project Inc

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…

Environment
2
Wayne County Community Services Organization

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

Community Improvement
3
Greenville Revitalization Corp

To act as the economic development arm of the gcra by bringing economic opportunity to disadvantaged areas of greenville county.

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4
Greenville Area Chamber of Commerce

To provide leadership and to promote orderly community development.

—
5
Child Development Center of Central Wv Inc

Provide childd care services and preschool for children birth to age 12

Education
6
Greene County United Way Inc

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.

Philanthropy
7
Central West Virginia Aging Services Inc

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.

Human Services
8
Central Child Care of Wv

Supervision of child care providers

Human Services
9
Summers County Council on Aging Inc

Provide services to senior citizens of Summers County, West Virginia.

Human Services
10
Pocahontas County Senior Citizens Inc

To provide services to the senior citizens of Pocahontas County, West Virginia

Human Services
11
Greenville Theatre Arts Center
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12
Greenbrier Youth Camp

Providing youth recreation & lodging

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Greenbrier Valley Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 90 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
22/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOOPS FAMILY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $400,000 · OtherHOOPS FAMILY CHILDREN'S HOSPITALMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER: $400,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCERAPPALACHIAN LEADERSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $368,000 · OtherAPPALACHIAN LEADERSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATIONWV UNIVERSITY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $300,000 · OtherWV UNIVERSITY CHILDREN'S HOSPITALCARNEGIE HALL INC: $210,000 · OtherCASA OF THE 11TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT: $205,000 · OtherLARRY JOE HARLESS COMMUNITY CENTER: $200,000 · OtherGREENBRIER COUNTY 4-H LEADERS ASSOCIATION: $179,000 · OtherWVU CANCER INSTITUTE: $165,000 · Other+60 more: $1,534,810 · Other+60 moreTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC: $240,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'…BRONXWORKS INC: $105,000 · Human ServicesBRONXWORKS IN…Child and Youth Advocacy Center: $95,000 · Human ServicesChild and You…UNITED WAY OF THE GREENBRIER VALLEY INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF…FAMILY REFUGE CENTER INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY REFUGE…GREENBRIER COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING INC: $51,300 · Human ServicesGREENBRIER CO…+2 more: $22,000 · Human ServicesGREENBRIER REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY: $210,000 · Arts & CultureCHARLESTON LIGHT OPERA GUILD INC: $105,000 · Arts & CultureGREENBRIER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $71,000 · Arts & CultureAPPALACHIAN CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC: $36,000 · Arts & CultureCHARLESTON BALLET INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $145,000 · EducationGREENBRIER COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $48,000 · EducationGreenbrier Community School Inc: $30,000 · EducationCommunities In Schools of Greenbrier County Inc: $205,000 · Youth DevelopmentDAVIS-STUART INC: $145,000 · HealthON EAGLES' WINGS INC: $28,500 · HealthCHILDHOOD LANGUAGE DISORDERS CENTER INC: $7,500 · HealthGREENBRIER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $77,000 · Animals
Other$3,961,810Human Services$688,300Arts & Culture$452,000Education$223,000Youth Development$205,000Health$181,000Animals$77,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC: $240,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGREENBRIER REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY: $210,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetCARNEGIE HALL INC: $210,000 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetCommunities In Schools of Greenbrier County Inc: $205,000 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $145,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDAVIS-STUART INC: $145,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE INC: $120,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetBRONXWORKS INC: $105,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLESTON LIGHT OPERA GUILD INC: $105,000 over 7y, 8.6% of budgetChild and Youth Advocacy Center: $95,000 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetBIG CREEK PEOPLE IN ACTION INC: $94,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE GREENBRIER VALLEY INC: $90,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetFAMILY REFUGE CENTER INC: $85,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetGREENBRIER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $77,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetGREENBRIER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $71,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetGREENBRIER COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING INC: $51,300 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetGREENBRIER COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $48,000 over 8y, 38% of budgetGATEWAY INDUSTRIES INC: $46,960 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetWELLSPRING OF GREENBRIER INC: $45,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetAPPALACHIAN CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC: $36,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetGreenbrier Community School Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCHARLESTON BALLET INC: $30,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetON EAGLES' WINGS INC: $28,500 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetTHE GREATER GREENBRIER VALLEY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAlderson Main Street Inc: $8,500 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetCHILDHOOD LANGUAGE DISORDERS CENTER INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLewisburg Foundation Incorporated: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNATIONAL YOUTH SCIENCE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRonceverte Development Corporation: $4,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetMANNA MEAL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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 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 WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DAVIS-STUART INC ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds BRONXWORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARLESTON LIGHT OPERA GUILD 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 ↗

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.

The Greater Kanawha V…Hollowell Dawkins Fou…The Daywood Foundatio…Tgkvf IncMary B Nickell Founda…United Way of the Gre…Truist West Virginia …Encova Foundation of …Seneca Trail Charitab…Peoples Bank Foundati…Marie Leist Foundatio…The Greater Greenbrie…
The Greater Kanawha Valley FoundationWV58.6× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jeanne G Hamilton and Lawson W Hamilton Jr Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jeanne G Hamilton and Lawson W Hamilton Jr Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    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 · 0–40%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 90 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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