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Esther H Hawks Trust #0717116 Charles L Newhall at a glance

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Esther H Hawks Trust #0717116 Charles L Newhall

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$115k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$508kArts & Culture$16kRecreation & Sports$5k
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $105k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (BOSTON)$10,000
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$5,000
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (LOWELL)$5,000
SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY$5,000
NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY$5,000
GORDON COLLEGE$5,000
HOWARD UNIVERSITY$5,000
ST ANSELM COLLEGE$5,000
BOSTON COLLEGE$5,000
CENTRE COLLEGE$5,000
ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY$5,000
MCPHS UNIVERSITY$5,000
EMMANUEL COLLEGE$5,000
ENDICOTT COLLEGE$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOSTON COLLEGE: $6k → 7%FRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%ENDICOTT COLLEGE: $5k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (AMHERST): $15k → 12%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $6k → 12%SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $6k → 14%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $5k → 11%NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%PROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $6k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $5k → 13%ST ANSELM COLLEGE: $5k → 7%FRANKLIN PIERCE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 9%CENTRE COLLEGE: $5k → 15%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $6k → 7%BOSTON COLLEGE: $5k → 7%FRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%ENDICOTT COLLEGE: $5k → 10%ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (AMHERST): $11k → 12%WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $6k → 16%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $5k → 11%NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%ST ANSELM COLLEGE: $5k → 7%FRANKLIN PIERCE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 9%CENTRE COLLEGE: $5k → 15%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $6k → 7%BOSTON COLLEGE: $5k → 7%ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (AMHERST): $9k → 12%SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%GORDON COLLEGE: $5k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (AMHERST): $6k → 12%MCPHS UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (LOWELL): $6k → 8%GORDON COLLEGE: $5k → 10%MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $5k → 12%SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $9k → 8%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $6k → 8%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $6k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (BOSTON): $10k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (BOSTON): $10k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (BOSTON): $6k → 16%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

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NH
NY
MA
IN
CT
RI
CA
KY
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$475k · 32 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
5

Total granted

$475k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+21%

Still filing today

69%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • Trustees of Tufts College
    5× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +39%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +50%
  • EMMANUEL COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • WI
    WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +21%
  • SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +9%
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +63%
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.

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Western New England University

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…

Education
2
Bentley University

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…

Education
3
Dickinson College

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

Education
4
Lehigh University

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…

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

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)

Education
7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
8
The Trustees of Grinnell College

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…

Education
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
10
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
11
Lewis & Clark College

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…

Education
12
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
27/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Trustees of Tufts College: $31,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegeTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $22,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGEEMMANUEL COLLEGE: $19,000 · EducationEMMANUEL COLLEGESIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $17,000 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $16,000 · EducationCENTRE COLLEGE: $16,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $16,000 · EducationBowdoin College: $15,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $14,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $14,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $14,000 · EducationENDICOTT COLLEGE: $13,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $12,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $12,000 · EducationWilliams College: $12,000 · Education+15 more: $103,000 · Education+15 moreUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (AMHERST): $40,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (AMHERST)UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $32,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (LOWELL): $22,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (LOWELL)SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY: $16,000 · OtherSALEM STATE UNIVERSITYFRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY: $16,000 · OtherFRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITYNORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUTUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (DARTMOUTH): $9,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $9,000 · OtherEMORY UNIVERSITY: $9,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $9,000 · Other
Education$346,000Other$182,500

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $31,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEMMANUEL COLLEGE: $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE COLLEGE: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENDICOTT COLLEGE: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGORDON COLLEGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT ANSELM COLLEGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMCPHS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFranklin Pierce University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCURRY COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Pfizer Foundation…Ralph & Helen Kelley …The Sudbury FoundationFidelity FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY14.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Esther H Hawks Trust #0717116 Charles L Newhall funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Esther H Hawks Trust #0717116 Charles L Newhall. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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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Find your warmest path to Esther H Hawks Trust #0717116 Charles L Newhall 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 41 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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