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Hawk Family Foundation

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.

$172k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$306kArts & Culture$253kReligion$217kHealth$150kRecreation & Sports$123kPhilanthropy$86kHuman Services$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $134k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$839k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Seeds of Hope Charitable Trust$25,000
Individual grant recipient$24,324
Metropolitan Opera$15,000
Magis Center$10,000
McCallum Theatre$10,000
Sacred Heart Church$10,000
Good Shepherd Catholic Parish$10,000
Gold Crown Foundation$10,000
National Wrestling Coaches Associat$10,000
Crohn's Colitis Foundation$10,000
Catholic Foundation$9,531
University of Iowa FoundationCntrAd$5,000
Emmaus Catholic Hospice$5,000
Naval Postgraduate Sch Foundation$5,000
TAPS$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%National Wrestling Coaches Associat: $10k → 9%The Papal Foundatio: $24k → 10%Magis Center: $10k → 10%McCallum Theatre: $20k → 11%Arupe Jesuit High School: $50k → 12%National Wrestling Coaches Associat: $10k → 9%The Papal Foundatio: $15k → 10%Magis Center: $10k → 10%McCallum Theatre: $10k → 11%Arupe Jesuit High School: $25k → 12%National Wrestling Coaches Associat: $10k → 9%The Papal Foundatio: $15k → 10%McCallum Theatre: $10k → 11%Arupe Jesuit High School: $20k → 12%McCallum Theatre: $10k → 11%Metropolitan Opera: $25k → 17%Arupe Jesuit High School: $15k → 12%Sacred Heart Church: $10k → 11%Metropolitan Opera: $25k → 17%Catholic Charities: $15k → 12%Sacred Heart Church: $10k → 11%Metropolitan Opera: $20k → 17%Sacred Heart Church: $10k → 11%Metropolitan Opera: $16k → 17%Seeds of Hope Charitable Trust: $25k → 12%McCallum Theatre: $10k → 11%Metropolitan Opera: $15k → 17%Seeds of Hope Charitable Trust: $25k → 12%McCallum Theatre: $10k → 11%Metropolitan Opera: $15k → 17%Seeds of Hope Charitable Trust: $25k → 12%Sacred Heart School: $10k → 11%Metropolitan Opera: $15k → 17%Seeds of Hope Charitable Trust: $20k → 12%McCallum Theatre: $10k → 11%Metropolitan Opera: $15k → 17%Seeds of Hope Charitable Trust: $15k → 12%Metropolitan Opera: $15k → 17%Seeds of Hope Charitable Trust: $10k → 12%Sacred Heart Church: $10k → 11%Seeds of Hope Charitable Trust: $10k → 12%Crohn's Colitis Foundation: $20k → 12%Crohn's Colitis Foundation: $20k → 12%Crohn's Colitis Foundation: $15k → 12%Mother of God Catholic Church: $15k → 12%Mother of God Catholic Church: $15k → 12%Mother of God Catholic Church: $15k → 12%Mother of God Catholic Church: $10k → 12%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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 28 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +84% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
11

Total granted

$1.2M
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%
+19%

Still filing today

21%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NW
    NATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +84%
  • GC
    GOLD CROWN FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +22%
  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Center
    6× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • CS
    COLORADO SKIES ACADEMY
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -13%
  • SF
    Special Forces Charitable Trust NPS
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • SE
    SIMON ESTES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +27%
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.

1
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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2
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
3
Institute for Shipboard Education

Journeys of discovery that spark bold solutions to global challenges.

Education
4
The Cismas Foundation
Youth Development
5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
Colorado Christian Academy

Colorado christian academy provides an innovative christ-centered education that prioritizes academic achievements and individual development of the whole child. in relationship with parents, we will build healthy foundations that result…

Education
7
Benedictine College

Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.

Education
8
The Fund for American Studies

The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…

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9
Colorado Health Institute
Health
10
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
11
Colorado Soccer Association

Mission statement: colorado soccer association (csa) is a non-profit educational and service organization with the mission to promote, facilitate and nurture the growth of soccer throughout colorado. csa honors the game by providing…

Recreation & Sports
12
Medtech Innovator

Medtech innovator organizes and runs a global competition and virtual accelerator for medical device, digital health, and diagnostic startup companies.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seeds of Hope Charitable Trust; the most unlike its peers is Simon Estes Foundation. 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

11 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. 11 of the 39 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Metropolitan Opera: $160,500 · OtherMetropolitan OperaSEEDS OF HOPE CHARITABLE TRUST: $140,000 · OtherSEEDS OF HOPE CHARITABLE TRUSTARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $110,000 · OtherARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOLCrohn's Colitis Foundation: $105,000 · OtherCrohn's Colitis FoundationMcCallum Theatre: $90,000 · OtherMcCallum TheatreMother of God Catholic Church: $75,100 · OtherMother of God Catholic ChurchIndividual grant recipient: $57,278 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSacred Heart Church: $55,000 · OtherUniversity of Iowa FoundationCntrAd: $40,000 · Other+21 more: $216,944 · Other+21 moreEisenhower Medical Center: $30,000 · HealthDOMINICAN HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC: $10,000 · HealthCHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthNATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION: $36,550 · Recreation & SportsGOLD CROWN FOUNDATION: $35,000 · PhilanthropySTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $9,000 · EducationCOLORADO SKIES ACADEMY: $5,000 · EducationSIMON ESTES FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education
Other$1,049,822Health$46,000Recreation & Sports$36,550Philanthropy$35,000Education$19,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSEEDS OF HOPE CHARITABLE TRUST: $140,000 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetNATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION: $36,550 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetGOLD CROWN FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDOMINICAN HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO SKIES ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIMON ESTES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RELIEF: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds SEEDS OF HOPE CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds GOLD CROWN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds DOMINICAN HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO SKIES ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds SIMON ESTES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RELIEF ↗

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 Catholic Foundati…Daniels FundThe Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Richard and Mary Pat …Pema Foundation IncThe Martin Family Fou…Christian Community F…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…
The Catholic Foundation No ColoradoCO17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Catholic Foundation No Colorado · Daniels Fund · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Richard and Mary Pat McCormick Charitable Trust · Pema Foundation Inc · The Martin Family Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Hawk Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hawk Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 39 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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