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Hawkins Scholarship Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$256k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
290
Grants FY2025
275
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$900
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,800
Organizations funded a year
168 to 275
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
27
Total assets, FY2025
$4.1M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Hawkins Scholarship Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $286k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving258$256k67%
FY2024275$286k100%
FY2023207$278k71%
FY2022168$217k100%
FY2021193$223k89%
FY2020238$192k56%
FY2019246$211k69%
FY2018190$225k57%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.1MArts & Culture$2kInternational$800

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
MI
MA
OR
WY
IA
IN
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
KY
AZ
KS
NC
HI
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc$3,20020%
Grand Canyon University$2,15020%
The Southwestern College$1,60020%
Colorado Christian University$1,60020%
Northwest Nazarene University Inc$90010%
Cambodia Dental Project$8001n/a
The Univ of Montana-Western Foundation$80010%

Plus 1,554 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.

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About Hawkins Scholarship Foundation

How much does Hawkins Scholarship Foundation give?
Hawkins Scholarship Foundation reported 290 grants totaling $256,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 168 and 275 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Hawkins Scholarship Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%), Arts & Culture (0%), International (0%).
Who are Hawkins Scholarship Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc ($3k), Grand Canyon University ($2k), The Southwestern College ($2k).
Does Hawkins Scholarship Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hawkins Scholarship Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Hawkins Scholarship Foundation based?
Hawkins Scholarship Foundation is based in MT.

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 1561 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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