· Public charity
Trustees of Hamilton College
A liberal arts college chartered in 1812, Hamilton College has an enrollment of approximately 2,000 students, representing 50 states and 61 countries, and offers 59 areas of study.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $359,157 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $61,279,481 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $60,920,324 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $94k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MVHS Foundation | $250,000 |
| Clinton Central School District | $19,175 |
| Clinton Kirkland improvement Corp | $15,000 |
| Clinton Central School Foundation | $13,000 |
| Country Pantry | $12,800 |
| COCVAC | $12,000 |
| Clinton Early Learning Center | $11,455 |
| Clinton Fire Department | $10,777 |
| Kirkland Town Library | $7,500 |
| Clinton Historical Society | $7,450 |
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 (FY17–25, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k 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
- CCCLINTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $99k · revenue +71%
- KAKIRKLAND ART CENTER INC3× · 2021–2024 · $46k · revenue +34%
- COCENTRAL ONEIDA COUNTY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC4× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Miamigraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +66%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +22%
- CYCLINTON YOUTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $16k · revenue -98%
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.
Library service to town residents
To provide grants and scholarships to teachers and students who exceed expectations and to recognize excellence in the school system
To perserve historical artifacts and landmarks
Ccls is a 36 member cooperative public library system chartered by the nys education department to foster, strengthen, and improve public library services within chautauqua and cattaraugus counties by providing its members with training,…
Promoting clinton county heritage and museum.
To promote education in the clinton community school district by providing teacher grants for educational supplies and tools, providing scholarships to students for college, and funding dual credit college classes for school district…
Granting student scholarships and contributions to college
The clinton county historical society, inc. was organized for the purpose of maintaining a museum for collecting, preserving and interpreting records for artifacts significant to clinton county, pennsylvania.
The clinton cemetery association has been incorporated to maintain and operate the sunset hill cemetery in the town of kirkland, county of oneida, ny, to provide for the disposal of human remains, promote and serve socially and culturally…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clinton Early Learning Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 19 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 MOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLINTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIRKLAND ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ONEIDA COUNTY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds KIRKLAND TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds CLINTON KIRKLAND IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CLINTON EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KIRKLAND TOWN LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CLINTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CLINTON YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HESTER J HODGDON LIBRARIES FOR ↗
- Who funds African Mission Healthcare Foundation ↗
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 Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc · Charles H and Beverly E Shaw Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Trustees of Hamilton College 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- University of Maryland Foundation Inc — 0% 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.