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Hawley Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Conservancy of Southwest Florida | $21,000 |
| Audubon of Florida | $15,000 |
| Natural Resources Defense Council | $10,000 |
| Amazon Conservation Team | $10,000 |
| NutritionFactsorg | $10,000 |
| Arbor Day Foundation | $10,000 |
| Department of Entomology of University of Minnesota | $10,000 |
| Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy | $10,000 |
| Augsburg College Suzuki Foundation | $10,000 |
| The Raptor Center University of Minnesota | $10,000 |
| Earth Island Institute | $8,000 |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $8,000 |
| Greenhouse Scholars | $8,000 |
| Minnesota Land Trust | $6,000 |
| MAPS | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Hawley Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +89% since the first grant, against +87% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA8× · 2017–2024 · $146k · revenue +561%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC6× · 2017–2024 · $112k · revenue +41%
Earth Island Institute Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +271%
Funded once
- ACAugsberg College Suzuki Foundationone grant, 2017 · $20k
- AOAudubon of Florida - Corkswcrew Swampone grant, 2017 · $10k
- UOUniv of MN Department of Entomology - Grad Schoolone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
To mobilize people in local communities around the world to protect marine wildlife and the oceans and inland watersheds that sustain them.
Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy and the most unlike its peers is Food for Hope. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Institute for Responsible Technology ↗
- Who funds AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM ↗
- Who funds Nutritionfactsorg Inc ↗
- Who funds CMDANCE ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVATION RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR HOPE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds PANGEASEED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GROWHAUS ↗
- Who funds THE CETACEAN SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SO ALL MAY EAT INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Hawley Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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