· Private foundation
Hawkins Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $222k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bellevue University | $105,000 |
| Westside Foundation | $60,000 |
| United Way of the Midlands | $32,097 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of the Midlands | $25,000 |
| Nebraska Game and Parks Foundation | $25,000 |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $25,000 |
| Nebraska Greats Foundation | $25,000 |
| Seal Family Foundation | $20,000 |
| Keep Omaha Beautiful | $20,000 |
| PACE | $20,000 |
| Greater Omaha Chamber Foundation | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| College World Series of Omaha Inc | $7,500 |
| Omaha Sports Commission | $5,000 |
| Lutheran Church of the Master | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
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 +16% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $549k · revenue +70%
- BUBellevue University5× · 2017–2025 · $300k · revenue +98%
- GOGREATER OMAHA CHAMBER FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Nebraska Foundation Athletic Facilitiesone grant, 2023 · $100k
- T1The 1890 Foundationone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -100%
- DUDOANE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -4%
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.
Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members
The council of indepependent nebraska colleges foundation exists to provide operating funds and scholarship support for students attending nebraska's independent institutions of excellence.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
The mission of oedc is to implement economic development projects, housing, and community revitalization programs that create jobs, business ownership opportunities and other economic benefits for area residents.
To promote credit unions in nebraska
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
The objective of the nebraska golf association is to foster, promote, and advance the interest and the true spirit of amateur golf throughout the state of nebraska, to lend its cooperation and assistance to the united states golf…
The unf charitable gift fund was established to enable donors to make charitable donations to multiple organizations, including the university of nebraska.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Nebraska Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hastings College. 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 45 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% 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 17% 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.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 72 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bellevue University ↗
- Who funds GREATER OMAHA CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUTISM ACTION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE WORLD SERIES OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds The 1890 Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREATER OMAHA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds DOANE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds KEEP OMAHA BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds Police Athletics for Community Engagement ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA GREATS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRI-FAITH INITIATIVE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds THE MADONNA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OMAHA SPORTS COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds PLATTE INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 326 MID-AMERICA COUNCIL ↗
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: Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Dr C C and Mabel L Criss Memorial · Nebraska Community Foundation · Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society · Seline Family 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 Hawkins Charitable Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.