· Private foundation
Hawley Family 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Arbor Day Foundation | $10,000 |
| Conservancy of Southwest Florida | $10,000 |
| NutritionFactsorg | $10,000 |
| Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy | $10,000 |
| Audubon of Florida | $10,000 |
| Natural Resources Defense Council | $9,100 |
| Greenhouse Scholars | $5,000 |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $5,000 |
| Augsburg Suzuki Talent Education | $5,000 |
| The Raptor Center University of Minnesota | $5,000 |
| Department of Entomology of University of Minnesota | $5,000 |
| Earth Island Institute | $4,000 |
| Minnesota Land Trust | $4,000 |
| Amazon Conservation Team | $3,000 |
| Ocean Conservation Research | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Hawley Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +133% since the first grant, against +87% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA9× · 2017–2025 · $156k · revenue +561%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC7× · 2017–2025 · $121k · revenue +41%
Earth Island Institute Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $87k · revenue +271%
Funded once
- ACAugsberg College Suzuki Foundationone grant, 2017 · $20k
- UOUniv of MN Department of Entomology - Grad Schoolone grant, 2017 · $10k
- AOAudubon of Florida - Corkswcrew Swampone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
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…
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
Rare inspires change so people and nature thrive.
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…
To stabilize the population of marine species in danger, especially sharks and rays in the caribbean of guatemala; through science and community strengthening which will provide the creation of alternative livelihoods, which eventually…
Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 51 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
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.
- 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 Nutritionfactsorg Inc ↗
- Who funds AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM ↗
- Who funds Institute for Responsible Technology ↗
- Who funds CMDANCE ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVATION RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR HOPE ↗
- Who funds PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds PANGEASEED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GROWHAUS ↗
- Who funds THE CETACEAN SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hawley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hawley Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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