· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA | $10,000 |
| DILLARD UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $10,000 |
| NEADS INC | $10,000 |
| ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| THE SILK ROAD PROJECT | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY | $5,000 |
| ATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +33% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- NFNEADSDOGS FOR DEAF AND DISABLED AMERICANSone grant, 2017 · $10k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MAone grant, 2022 · $10k
- PPPLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +25%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Deborah a Hawkins Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Deborah a Hawkins Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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