Nebraska · Private foundation
Hawkins Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $424k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $105,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Hawkins Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $423k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $296k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $339k | 55% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $247k | 37% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $228k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $264k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $411k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $276k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $548,666 | 7 | 0% |
| Bellevue University | $299,999 | 5 | 0% |
| Greater Omaha Chamber Foundation | $175,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Autism Action Partnership | $150,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Midlands | $113,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United Way of the Midlands | $94,797 | 5 | 0% |
| Nebraska Game and Parks Foundation | $70,000 | 4 | 1% |
| College World Series of Omaha Inc | $61,265 | 8 | 0% |
| The 1890 Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hawkins Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Hawkins Charitable Trust
- How much does Hawkins Charitable Trust give?
- Hawkins Charitable Trust reported 22 grants totaling $423,597 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Hawkins Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Philanthropy (12%), Youth Development (10%).
- Who are Hawkins Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Nebraska Foundation ($549k), Bellevue University ($300k), Greater Omaha Chamber Foundation ($175k).
- Does Hawkins Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hawkins Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hawkins Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Robert B Daugherty Foundation, The Lozier Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation.
- Where is Hawkins Charitable Trust based?
- Hawkins Charitable Trust is based in NE.
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