· Private foundation
Esther H Hawks Trust #0717116 Charles L Newhall
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (BOSTON) | $10,000 |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $5,000 |
| TUFTS UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| GORDON COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| CENTRE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| ENDICOTT COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| CURRY COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| FRANKLIN PIERCE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| FRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC | $5,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +34% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
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
Trustees of Tufts College5× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +39%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +50%
EMMANUEL COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- WIWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INCone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +21%
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +63%
EMERSON COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +21%
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University and the most unlike its peers is Franklin Pierce University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 85 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 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. 31 of the 41 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 Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds ENDICOTT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds Franklin Pierce University ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GORDON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MCPHS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CURRY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EMERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ↗
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: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Ralph & Helen Kelley Fdn · The Sudbury Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Esther H Hawks Trust #0717116 Charles L Newhall 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 11% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 2% of income from government
- Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc — 2% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
- Assumption University — 1% of income from government
- Mcphs University — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 0% of income from government
- Curry College — 0% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 0% of income from government
- Simmons University — 0% of income from government
- Gordon College — 0% of income from government
- Endicott College — 0% of income from government
- Emerson College — 0% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 0% of income from government
- Emmanuel College — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% 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.
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