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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.

$145k
Granted FY2023
11
Grants FY2023
11
Organizations funded FY2023
64%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
3
Total assets, FY2023
$1.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 64% of the organizations Deborah a Hawkins Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 72% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentCivil RightsScience & TechArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202311$145k64%
FY20225$190k20%
FY20213$325k0%
FY20206$155k17%
FY20198$146k50%
FY20181$51k0%
FY20179$76kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$563kHuman Services$275kYouth Development$75kEnvironment$70kHealth$40kPhilanthropy$20kEducation$20kCivil Rights$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($513k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Deborah a Hawkins Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNeads Inc: $270,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetArtists for Humanity Inc: $75,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMetalwerx Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetThe Trustees of Reservations: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSilk Road Project Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWildlands Trust Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Florida Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFilmnorth: $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDillard University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetXavier University of Louisiana: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlimoth Patuxet Museums Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAtlantic Classical Orchestra Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Way of Indian River County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY12.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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About Deborah a Hawkins Charitable Trust

How much does Deborah a Hawkins Charitable Trust give?
Deborah a Hawkins Charitable Trust reported 11 grants totaling $145,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Deborah a Hawkins Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (52%), Human Services (25%), Youth Development (7%).
Who are Deborah a Hawkins Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Neads Inc ($270k), Artists for Humanity Inc ($75k), Metalwerx Inc ($50k).
Does Deborah a Hawkins Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Deborah a Hawkins Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Deborah a Hawkins Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Deborah a Hawkins Charitable Trust based?
Deborah a Hawkins Charitable Trust is based in MA.

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 22 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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