· Private foundation
Deborah a Hawkins Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA | $15,000 |
| NEADS INC | $10,000 |
| ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| THE SILK ROAD PROJECT | $10,000 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $10,000 |
| DILLARD UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $10,000 |
| ATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $270k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +66% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- NINEADS INC5× · 2019–2023 · $270k · revenue +19%
- AFARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC5× · 2017–2023 · $75k · revenue +83%
- MIMetalwerx Inc2× · 2020–2022 · $50k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- PPPLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +25%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MAone grant, 2022 · $10k
- NFNEADSDOGS FOR DEAF AND DISABLED AMERICANSone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 22 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 NEADS INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Metalwerx Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds SILK ROAD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLANDS TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds FILMNORTH ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds DILLARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Deborah a Hawkins Charitable Trust 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.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Wildlands Trust Inc — 5% of income from government
- Silk Road Project Inc — 4% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- United Way of Indian River County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc — 1% of income from government
- Metalwerx Inc — 1% 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.