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Hawkins 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.

$744k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$4.2MEducation$2.6MPhilanthropy$692kYouth Development$501kHealth$100kHuman Services$95kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kCivil Rights$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$10.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY$500,000
SUMMIT CHARTER SCHOOL$100,000
VISION CASHIERS$35,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
WEST END UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$20,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NASHVILLE$10,000
GOLDMAN SACHS PHILANTHROPY FUND$10,000
BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,000
ST PAUL'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$5,000
THE GOLF CLUB OF TENNESSEE SCHOLARSHIP FUND$2,500
CITY OF BELLE MEADE$1,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VISION CASHIERS: $35k → 18%VISION CASHIERS: $35k → 18%HOUSTON'S AMAZING PLACE INC: $25k → 16%HOUSTON'S AMAZING PLACE INC: $25k → 16%PROJECT ONE DAY: $25k → 16%MAKING IT BETTER: $900 → 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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.9M · 16 repeat orgs$848k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
13

Total granted

$6.9M
$317k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+10%

Still filing today

56%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $531k 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthReligionPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • Vanderbilt University
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +74%
  • SC
    Summit Charter School
    3× · 2023–2025 · $600k · revenue +15%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $180k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • United Way of Greater Houston
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +10%
  • JC
    JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue -90%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
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
University of Houston Foundation

University of Houston Foundation provides program support to University of Houston System for various scholarship and educational programs.

Education
2
Houston Independent School District Foundation

The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…

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3
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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4
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
5
The University of Texas Law School Foundation

The mission of the Law School Foundation is the development, management, and enhancement of the financial and administrative resources which support the University of Texas School of Law.

Education
6
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
7
University of Memphis Foundation

The foundation accepts, manages, and disburses private support to the university of memphis.

Education
8
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
9
St John's School

See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…

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10
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
11
Forty First Foundation

The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…

Education
12
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Methodist Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Jpmorgan Chase 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

22 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. 22 of the 35 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST PAUL'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $2,350,650 · OtherST PAUL'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCHBOYS & GIRLS CLUB PLATEAU: $501,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB PLATEAUMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · OtherMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITYNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION: $125,000 · Other+13 more: $238,440 · Other+13 moreVanderbilt University: $1,100,250 · EducationVanderbilt UniversitySummit Charter School: $600,000 · EducationSummit Charter SchoolTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $180,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE…+4 more: $95,000 · EducationSt Paul's United Methodist Foundation of Houston: $1,801,550 · ReligionSt Paul's United Methodi…GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $235,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $156,520 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater Houston: $100,000 · PhilanthropyVISION CASHIERS INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesHouston's Amazing Place Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT ONE DAY: $25,000 · Human Services+1 more: $900 · Human ServicesTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,638 · HealthFriends of West University Parks Fund: $1,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$3,715,090Education$1,975,250Religion$1,801,550Philanthropy$491,520Human Services$145,900Health$42,638Recreation & Sports$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Paul's United Methodist Foundation of Houston: $1,801,550 over 2y, 31% of budgetVanderbilt University: $1,100,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSummit Charter School: $600,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $235,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $180,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $156,520 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISION CASHIERS INC: $70,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetHouston's Amazing Place Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ONE DAY: $25,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetST AGNES ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPresbyterian School: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Golf Club of Tennessee Scholarship Fund: $5,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetKNOWLEDGE ARTS FOUNDATION (TEACH): $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,638 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAndys Challenge: $2,500 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetFriends of West University Parks Fund: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMaking It Better dba Literacy Now: $900 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.

Shell USA Company Fou…Baxter Trust Co Priva…Albert & Ethel Herzst…Greater Houston Commu…Raymond James Charita…Natl Christian Charit…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…
Shell USA Company FoundationTX15.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Hawkins Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hawkins Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Hawkins Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hawkins Family Foundation 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 35 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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