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Catherine Hawkins Foundation at a glance

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Catherine Hawkins Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Environment$575kPhilanthropy$400kInternational$400kEducation$225kPublic Benefit$200kArts & Culture$100kHousing & Shelter$40k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $750k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$100,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNRWA$400,000
CENTRE FOR EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM USA AKA GIVING GREEN$200,000
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER$150,000
HIGH COUNTRY NEWS$100,000
PROPUBLICA$100,000
THE CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING$100,000
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS$50,000
SMITH COLLEGE$50,000
GOOD ENERGY COLLECTIVE$25,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SMITH COLLEGE: $50k → 12%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $25k → 10%CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING: $100k → 10%CENTRE FOR EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM USA AKA GIVING GREEN: $200k → 10%GOOD ENERGY COLLECTIVE: $25k → 12%COMMUNITY WATER CENTER: $25k → 18%SOCIAL & ENVIORMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS: $25k → 19%SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM NETWORK: $50k → 17%UNRWA: $400k → 14%BLUEENERGY: $50k → 15%HIGH COUNTRY NEWS: $100k → 15%PUGET SOUND SAGE: $40k → 9%ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER: $150k → 14%SMITH COLLEGE: $50k → 12%THE CENTER ON RACE POVERTY AND THE ENVIRONMENT: $50k → 10%CENTRE FOR EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM USA AKA GIVING GREEN: $200k → 10%PROPUBLICA: $100k → 17%JOURNALISM DEVELOPMENT NETWORK: $50k → 14%ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CENTER: $100k → 14%THE CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING: $100k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
CO
DC
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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$750k · 3 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

$750k
$415k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+45%

Still filing today

67%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $775k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’24’25
EnvironmentEducationSocial ScienceArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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

  • CF
    CENTRE FOR EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM USA AKA GIVING GREEN
    2× · 2024–2025 · $400k
  • EL
    ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST
    2× · 2021–2025 · $250k · revenue +22%
  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE
    2× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Center for Investigative Reporting Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -96%
  • B
    BLUEENERGYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +121%
  • JD
    JOURNALISM DEVELOPMENT NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +45%
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
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment
2
Canary Media Inc

Canary Media is an independent, nonprofit newsroom covering the transition to clean energy.

Environment
3
E3G Third Generation Environmentalism

E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.

Environment
4
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
5
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
6
Climate Leadership Council Inc

To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.

Environment
7
Environment Next Inc

Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…

Environment
8
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
9
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
10
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
11
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
12
Floodlight Inc

Floodlight is an environmental news organization that investigates the people and corporations stalling climate action. We collaborate with local and nonprofit publications.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center On Race Poverty & the Environment; the most unlike its peers is The Trustees of the Smith College. 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 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
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

CENTRE FOR EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM USA AKA GIVING GREEN: $400,000 · OtherCENTRE FOR EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM USA AKA GIVING GREENUNRWA: $400,000 · OtherUNRWATHE CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING: $100,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTINGThe Center for Investigative Reporting Inc: $100,000 · OtherThe Center for Investigative Reporting Inc+1 more: $25,000 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $250,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND PO…HIGH COUNTRY NEWS: $100,000 · EnvironmentHIGH COUNTRY NEWSBLUEENERGY: $50,000 · EnvironmentBLUEENERGYCommunity Water Center: $25,000 · EnvironmentCommunity Water CenterTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $100,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES …JOURNALISM DEVELOPMENT NETWORK INC: $50,000 · EducationJOURNALISM DE…SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM NETWORK INC: $50,000 · EducationSOLUTIONS JOU…BRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationBRYN MAWR COL…INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS INC: $50,000 · Social SciencePUGET SOUND SAGE: $40,000 · Social ScienceGOOD ENERGY COLLECTIVE INC: $25,000 · Social SciencePRO PUBLICA INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT: $50,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,025,000Environment$425,000Education$225,000Social Science$115,000Arts & Culture$100,000Crime & Legal$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $250,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBLUEENERGY: $50,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetJOURNALISM DEVELOPMENT NETWORK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOLUTIONS JOURNALISM NETWORK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPUGET SOUND SAGE: $40,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Water Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Tides FoundationVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Tides FoundationCA14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Catherine Hawkins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Catherine Hawkins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Catherine Hawkins Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Catherine Hawkins Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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