· Private foundation
Hawkins Scholarship Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DICKINSON STATE UNIVERSITY FBO CARSON BAKER | $1,800 |
| CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY FBO LIAM ELLS | $1,800 |
| NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FBO KYRIE GISLASON | $1,800 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FBO ELEANOR HOLLINGSWORTH | $1,600 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FBO ELYSA FETVEIT | $1,600 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY FBO KATHERINE OSBURN | $1,600 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY FBO OLIVE LYNGHOLM | $1,600 |
| GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY FBO TREVIN OLIVIER | $1,600 |
| WYO TECH FBO BRADY BOLL | $1,600 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY FBO KATIE BENKELMAN | $1,250 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY FBO EVAN SCHOW | $1,250 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY FBO ALYSSA VOLLERTSON | $900 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY FBO BOONE SHANKS | $900 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FBO HAI LEY SI MON | $900 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY FBO ASPEN BRITT | $900 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
430 repeat relationships: 86 still active in FY2025, 344 since wound down; 172 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, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EAEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue +7%
- GCGrand Canyon University2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +7%
- TSTHE SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
6 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. 6 of the 1,561 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hawkins Scholarship Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hawkins Scholarship Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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