New York · Nonprofit
Trustees of Hamilton College
Trustees of Hamilton College (New York) receives grants from 290 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,487,618 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($11,881,365). 184 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. Trustees of Hamilton College administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
Trustees of Hamilton College administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programTrustees of Hamilton College runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$1.0M
Recipients
19
Contributions on record
$84M
Donors on record
293
Payments out are 0.01x the contributions on record, so the balance accumulates rather than passing straight through.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared funders
- Ralph D Harby & Evelyn P Harby Scholarship Fuportfolio match
- Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLCportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 2% · 2022 1% · 2023 4% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 73 funders to 130 funders, grant income rose $4.6M → $14M.
51 of 290 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Trustees of Hamilton College’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 290 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
55% of Trustees of Hamilton College's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $38M that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 36 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46M arriving through sponsors registered in 24 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 290 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared fundersCA · backs 125 organizations that share your funders
- Ralph D Harby & Evelyn P Harby Scholarship Fuportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vera Grace Greenlaw Trust Portland Trust Co LLCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edward Little High School Alumni as Portland Trust Co LLCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charles Elmer Scholarship Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared fundersDC · backs 86 organizations that share your funders
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 81 organizations that share your funders
- Ernest Wentcher Educational Fundshared fundersIL · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
- American Chemical Societyshared fundersDC · backs 158 organizations that share your funders
- Northeastern Universityshared fundersMA · backs 82 organizations that share your funders
- Brown Universityshared fundersRI · backs 95 organizations that share your funders
- The George Washington Universityshared fundersVA · backs 82 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Trustees of Hamilton College receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.4M on record.
- National Science Foundation$2.5M
- Department of Education$1.2M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$411k
- Department of the Interior$319k
- Department of Commerce$15k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Hamilton Property Group LLC · disregarded
- Foundation Hamilton College · exempt
- Hamilton in France · exempt
- Pooled Income Funds (2) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Annuity Trusts (2) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Trustees of Hamilton College: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College?
- Trustees of Hamilton College (New York) receives grants from 290 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,487,618 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($11,881,365). 184 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. Trustees of Hamilton College administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does Trustees of Hamilton College have?
- IRS filings report 290 organizations giving $83,487,618 in grants to Trustees of Hamilton College, 184 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Trustees of Hamilton College?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $11,881,365 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Trustees of Hamilton College find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 290funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing