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Hawkins Sisters Foundation at a glance

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Hawkins Sisters Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$125k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$469kRecreation & Sports$225kPhilanthropy$60kReligion$40kArts & Culture$40kPublic Benefit$35kHealth$3kCommunity Improvement$3k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$153k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEBRASKA GREATS FOUNDATION$60,000
HASTINGS COLLEGE$40,000
THE 1890 FOUNDATION$25,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PGA REACH NEBRASKA: $5k → 13%PGA REACH NEBRASKA: $5k → 13%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$832k · 10 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against -60% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

$832k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
-60%

Still filing today

70%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
EducationHealthCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther
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

  • HC
    HASTINGS COLLEGE
    4× · 2019–2025 · $159k · revenue +35%
  • CU
    Creighton University
    6× · 2017–2022 · $110k · revenue +48%
  • SF
    SEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • OS
    OMAHA SYMPHONY
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • JL
    JUNIOR LEAGUE OF OMAHA INC
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -60%
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
Nebraska Wesleyan University

Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.

Education
2
Unf Charitable Gift Fund

The unf charitable gift fund was established to enable donors to make charitable donations to multiple organizations, including the university of nebraska.

Philanthropy
3
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
4
Nebraska Medical Foundation

To support activities, including the awarding of scholarships to medical students, promote the wellness and health of citizens in nebraska, provide education on medical subjects, and other research projects consistent with its activities.

Health
5
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
6
Nebraska Medicine

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and committees through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.

Health
7
Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing and Allied Health

Nebraska methodist college of nursing & allied health is a health professions institution providing education in healthcare related fields.

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8
North Dakota State University Foundation

Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.

Education
9
Unmc Alumni Association

UNMC Alumni Association engages alumni, students, and friends in the life, promotion, and advancement of the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Education
10
Nebraska Human Resources Research Foundation

To discover individuals with exceptional capacity to positively influence the thoughts, feelings and behaviors of others; to explore the dimensions of human leadership and ways in which this potential can be maximized; to develop…

Public Benefit
11
North Dakota University System Foundation

The function of the north dakota university system foundation is to support, enrich, advance and improve higher education in the state of north dakota, and to assist its students, faculty and staff.

Philanthropy
12
Nebraska Methodist Hospital

Nebraska methodist hospital (commonly know as "methodist hospital") is an acute care facility dedicated to bringing high quality care for the mind, body and spirit of every person. we provide community-based health care, health education…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Nebraska Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATIONHASTINGS COLLEGE: $159,295 · EducationHASTINGS COLLEGECreighton University: $109,800 · EducationCreighton UniversityNEBRASKA GREATS FOUNDATION: $190,000 · OtherNEBRASKA GREATS FOUNDATIONWESTSIDE FOUNDATION: $55,000 · OtherWESTSIDE FOUNDATIONLUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE MASTER: $40,000 · OtherLUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE MASTERLAURITZEN GARDENS ANTIQUES SHOW: $30,000 · OtherLAURITZEN GARDENS ANTIQUES SHOWThe 1890 Foundation: $25,000 · OtherThe 1890 Foundation+1 more: $10,000 · OtherSEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Public BenefitNEBRASKA PGA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $3,000 · HealthJUNIOR LEAGUE OF OMAHA INC: $2,500 · Community Improvement
Education$469,095Other$350,000Public Benefit$35,000Human Services$10,000Philanthropy$5,000Health$3,000Community Improvement$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA GREATS FOUNDATION: $190,000 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetHASTINGS COLLEGE: $159,295 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCreighton University: $109,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe 1890 Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEBRASKA PGA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF OMAHA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

Hawkins Charitable Tr…Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Hawkins Charitable TrustNE15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hawkins Charitable Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Sisters Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hawkins Sisters Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 14 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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