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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.

$61M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$384kHealth$250kPublic Safety & Disaster$102kRecreation & Sports$67kArts & Culture$62kPublic Benefit$56kCommunity Improvement$35kFood & Nutrition$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $359,157, the rows itemized in this filing. The $61,279,481 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $60,920,324 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $94k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$12,800
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Clinton School Foundation: $16k → 16%Clinton Central School Foundation: $15k → 16%Clinton Central School Foundation: $15k → 16%Clinton Central School Foundation: $13k → 16%Clinton Central School Foundation: $13k → 16%Clinton Central School Foundation: $11k → 16%Clinton Central School Foundation: $10k → 16%Clinton Central School Foundation: $7k → 16%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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$639k · 13 repeat orgs$391k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
5

Total granted

$639k
$141k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+22%

Still filing today

62%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • CC
    CLINTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $99k · revenue +57%
  • KA
    KIRKLAND ART CENTER INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $46k · revenue +34%
  • CO
    CENTRAL ONEIDA COUNTY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Miamigraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +66%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +22%
  • CY
    CLINTON YOUTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $16k · revenue -98%
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
Clinton Arts Center
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2
Clinton Community Literary Association Inc - Clinton Community Library

Library service to town residents

Education
3
Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art C/O Denver Art Museu
Arts & Culture
4
Clinton Public School Foundation

To provide grants and scholarships to teachers and students who exceed expectations and to recognize excellence in the school system

Education
5
Central Historical Society
Arts & Culture
6
Clinton Historical Society

To perserve historical artifacts and landmarks

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7
Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System

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,…

Education
8
Clinton County Historical Society

Promoting clinton county heritage and museum.

—
9
Clinton Community Educational Foundation

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…

Education
10
Clinton Community College Foundation Inc

Granting student scholarships and contributions to college

Education
11
Clinton County Historical Society Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Trustees of Clark University

Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clinton Early Learning Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 19 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Clinton Central School: $131,175 · OtherClinton Central SchoolClinton Fire Department: $65,377 · OtherClinton Fire DepartmentVillage of Clinton: $55,700 · OtherVillage of ClintonCENTRAL ONEIDA COUNTY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC: $36,258 · OtherCENTRAL ONEIDA COUNTY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE COR…CLINTON EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC: $34,255 · OtherCLINTON EARLY LEARNING CENTER INCCountry Pantry: $29,300 · OtherCountry PantryTOWN OF KIRKLAND NEW YORK: $24,000 · OtherTOWN OF KIRKLAND NEW YORKCLINTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $16,200 · OtherHESTER J HODGDON LIBRARIES FOR: $15,000 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherMOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $250,000 · HealthMOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM…University of Miami: $50,000 · EducationUniversity of …UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …KIRKLAND TOWN LIBRARY: $32,051 · EducationKIRKLAND TOWN …CLINTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $99,200 · Human ServicesCLINTON CE…KIRKLAND TRAILS INC: $35,105 · Recreation & SportsCLINTON YOUTH FOUNDATION: $16,200 · Recreation & SportsKIRKLAND ART CENTER INC: $45,500 · Arts & CultureCLINTON KIRKLAND IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION: $35,000 · Community Improvement
Other$417,265Health$250,000Education$132,051Human Services$99,200Recreation & Sports$51,305Arts & Culture$45,500Community Improvement$35,000

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 budgetCLINTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $99,200 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIRKLAND ART CENTER INC: $45,500 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetCENTRAL ONEIDA COUNTY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC: $36,258 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetKIRKLAND TRAILS INC: $35,105 over 2y, 40% of budgetCLINTON KIRKLAND IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION: $35,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetCLINTON EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC: $34,255 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetKIRKLAND TOWN LIBRARY: $32,051 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCLINTON YOUTH FOUNDATION: $16,200 over 1y, 22% of budgetCLINTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $16,200 over 2y, 20% of budgetHESTER J HODGDON LIBRARIES FOR: $15,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetAfrican Mission Healthcare Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 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.

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 Community Foundat…Charles H and Beverly…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties IncNY17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Trustees of Hamilton College funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trustees of Hamilton College. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 19 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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