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Hawk Rock Foundation at a glance

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Hawk Rock Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$4.6MFood & Nutrition$2.0MHealth$1.3MEnvironment$1.2MEducation$863kHousing & Shelter$790kPublic Benefit$650kArts & Culture$555kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $205k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+3 grants · $946k
$50,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEALTHY LEARNERS$350,000
VERMONT FOODBANK$333,340
LEARNING ALLY$262,500
ACCION INTERNATIONAL$200,000
GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN$200,000
COPLEY HOSPITAL$175,000
NEPAL YOUTH FOUNDATION$175,000
GLOBAL IMPACT$153,750
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$150,000
ONESKY FOUNDATION$150,000
APOPO$100,000
RAISE THE CHILDREN$100,000
FREE GEEK$60,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF LAMOILLE COUNTY$60,000
PREBLE STREET$50,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HEALTHY LEARNERS: $350k → 16%LEARNING ALLY: $263k → 11%HEALTHY LEARNERS: $350k → 16%LEARNING ALLY: $150k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $150k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $150k → 11%PREBLE STREET: $550k → 7%LEARNING ALLY: $150k → 11%PREBLE STREET: $70k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $50k → 7%APOPO US INC: $100k → 14%PREBLE STREET: $50k → 7%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $10k → 17%PREBLE STREET: $50k → 7%APOPO US INC: $100k → 14%MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $20k → 7%MAINE NEEDS: $20k → 7%MAINE NEEDS: $20k → 7%GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $20k → 7%APOPO: $200k → 14%APOPO: $100k → 14%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

ME
VT
NH
WA
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CT
CA
UT
VA
SC
DC
FL
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.
$12M · 34 repeat orgs$384k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
11

Total granted

$12M
$284k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+5%

Still filing today

82%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalHealthEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • GF
    GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +231%
  • AI
    ACCION INTERNATIONAL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +385%
  • Learning Ally Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $863k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • NV
    Northeastern Vermont Regional Corpgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $110k · revenue +118%
  • A
    APOPO
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • GO
    GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +51%
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
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
2
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
3
Gardens for Health International

Gardens for Health International works to provide lasting agricultural solutions to chronic childhood malnutrition

International
4
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
5
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
6
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
7
Global Greengrants Fund

Global greengrants fund seeds grassroots environmental action and social justice through small grants. we support change from the ground up by channeling donations to local projects and grassroots campaigns for environmental justice around…

Environment
8
World Coffee Research

World coffee research unites the global coffee industry to drive science-based agricultural solutions to urgently secure a diverse and sustainable supply of quality coffee today and for generations to come. our mission is to grow, protect,…

International
9
Vermont Energy Investment Corporation

Veic is a sustainable energy company on a mission to generate the energy solutions the world needs (continues in schedule o). (continued), working to combat the climate crisis, boost community resilience, and lower energy costs. for nearly…

Environment
10
Global Communities

Global communities brings together local ingenuity and global insights to save lives and secure strong futures.

International
11
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
12
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; the most unlike its peers is New England Historic Genealogical Society. 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

45 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. 45 of the 54 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
28/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACCION INTERNATIONAL: $1,000,000 · InternationalACCION INTERNATIONALNEPAL YOUTH FOUNDATION: $775,000 · InternationalNEPAL YOUTH FOUNDATIONGlobal Impact: $760,800 · InternationalGlobal ImpactRAISE THE CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL: $350,000 · InternationalRAISE THE CHILDREN INTERNA…ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $200,000 · InternationalACTION AGAINST HUNGER - US…+3 more: $170,000 · InternationalLearning Ally Inc: $862,500 · Human ServicesLearning Ally IncPREBLE STREET: $770,000 · Human ServicesPREBLE STREETHEALTHY LEARNERS: $700,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHY LEARNERSAPOPO US INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesAPOPO US INC+4 more: $90,000 · Human ServicesTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $850,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYONESKY FOUNDATION: $750,000 · OtherONESKY FOUNDATIONGORKHA FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · OtherGORKHA FOUNDATION INCNEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: $200,000 · OtherNEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOG…FREE GEEK: $340,000 · OtherFREE GEEKMeals on Wheels of Lamoille County Inc: $310,000 · OtherMeals on Wheels of Lamoille C…THE BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · OtherTHE BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION IN…NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY: $200,000 · OtherNEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIO…+21 more: $545,000 · Other+21 moreVERMONT FOODBANK: $1,666,681 · Food & NutritionVERMONT FOODB…+1 more: $50,000 · Food & NutritionGLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN: $1,150,000 · Arts & CultureGLOBAL FU…MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureHEALTHY LEARNERS INC: $650,000 · Public BenefitCopley Hospital Inc: $275,000 · HealthCopley Health Systems Inc: $160,000 · HealthNortheastern Vermont Regional Corp: $110,000 · HealthNortheastern Vermont Regional Hosp Inc: $85,000 · Health
International$3,255,800Human Services$2,922,500Other$3,695,000Food & Nutrition$1,716,681Arts & Culture$1,190,000Public Benefit$650,000Health$630,000

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 budgetVERMONT FOODBANK: $1,666,681 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN: $1,150,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetACCION INTERNATIONAL: $1,000,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetLearning Ally Inc: $862,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $850,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEPAL YOUTH FOUNDATION: $775,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetPREBLE STREET: $770,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetGlobal Impact: $760,800 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTHY LEARNERS: $700,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetHEALTHY LEARNERS INC: $650,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetAPOPO US INC: $500,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetRAISE THE CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL: $350,000 over 5y, 37% of budgetFREE GEEK: $340,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Lamoille County Inc: $310,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetCopley Hospital Inc: $275,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $200,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY: $200,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetNEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: $200,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCopley Health Systems Inc: $160,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetFOLK ARTS RAJASTHAN INC: $110,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetNortheastern Vermont Regional Corp: $110,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGIVE2ASIA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNortheastern Vermont Regional Hosp Inc: $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKARUNA-SHECHEN USA: $75,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAMOILLE COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Needs Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetWOMEN'S COALITION OF ST CROIX: $21,625 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDOWNSTREET HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBIOSPHERE FOUNDATION FORMERLY PLANETARY CORAL REEF FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetNEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCROSSROADS GLOBAL VILLAGE US LIMITED: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGivers Legacy Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST CROIX ANIMAL WELFARE CENTERINC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT GUTENBERG LITERARY ARCHIVE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCORE FOUNDATION: $2,625 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMY BROTHERS WORKSHOP INC: $1,625 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Vermont Community…Community Foundation …Silicon Valley Commun…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
The Vermont Community FoundationVT16.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Rock Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hawk Rock Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
  • Downstreet Housing and Community Development Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Free Geek: 5% of income from government
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Northeastern Vermont Regional Hosp Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Copley Health Systems Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Copley Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 54 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home