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The Hampton Family Foundation

Lincoln, NE · EIN 47-0815827. Reported 32 grants totalling $271,500 to 30 organizations across tax years 2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$271,500granted, 2023
30organizations funded
$5,062,044assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Hampton Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $4,000 and $9,000; the smallest was $2,000 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
14 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
11 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
4 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
University of Nebraska FdnLincoln, NE$50,000112023
Cedars Youth ServicesLincoln, NE$25,000112023
Secc FoundationLincoln, NE$25,000112023
Fdn Lincoln Public SchoolLincoln, NE$18,500212023
CenterpointeLincoln, NE$17,500212023
People's City MissionLincoln, NE$10,500112023
Teammates Mentoring ProgrLincoln, NE$10,500112023
Clinic With a HeartLincoln, NE$9,000112023
Foster Care ClosetLincoln, NE$8,500112023
JR AchievementLincoln, NE$8,500112023
Lincoln Crisis Pregnancy Center IncLincoln, NE$8,500112023
YMCA of LincolnLincoln, NE$8,500112023
Girl Scouts - Spirit of AmericaLincoln, NE$6,500112023
Bright LightsLincoln, NE$5,000112023
Malone Community CenterLincoln, NE$5,000112023
Nebraska Wesleyan Univ FndLincoln, NE$5,000112023
Boys & Girls Clubs Lincolnlanc CoLincoln, NE$4,500112023
Concordia UniversitySeward, NE$4,000112023
Friendship HomeLincoln, NE$4,000112023
Lincoln Community PlayhouseLincoln, NE$4,000112023
Matt Talbot Kitchen & OutreachLincoln, NE$4,000112023
Mourning HopeLincoln, NE$4,000112023
Pius X FoundationLincoln, NE$4,000112023
Union CollegeLincoln, NE$4,000112023
White Cane FoundationLincoln, NE$4,000112023
Youth for ChristLincoln, NE$4,000112023
Fresh StartLincoln, NE$3,000112023
Lutheran Family ServicesOmaha, NE$2,500112023
Capital Humane SocietyLincoln, NE$2,000112023
Food Bank of LincolnLincoln, NE$2,000112023
Plus 86 grants to individuals totalling $576,500 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
5 grants
Human Services
5 grants
Arts & Culture
3 grants
Mental Health
2 grants
Animal Welfare
1 grant
Health Care
1 grant
Food & Nutrition
1 grant
Housing & Shelter
1 grant

Where its money goes

Lincoln, NE
$265K
Seward, NE
$4K
Omaha, NE
$2K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Lincoln Community Foundation Inc20 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund18 shared recipientsAbel Foundation13 shared recipientsAssurity Life Foundation12 shared recipientsUnited Way of Lincoln and Lancaster11 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc11 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Nebraska.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Hampton Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 1000 Anthony Lane, Lincoln, NE, 68520. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 47-0815827 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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