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Hawthorne Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$333k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
67%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$125,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 5
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$365k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Hawthorne Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
EducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentAnimalsCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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 arriving3$333k33%
FY20243$143k67%
FY20232$50k50%
FY20221$30k0%
FY20213$165k67%
FY20205$168k60%
FY20191$43k100%
FY20185$85k80%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$590kEducation$297kArts & Culture$75kYouth Development$30kCommunity Improvement$24kAnimals$20kHuman Services$13kReligion$10kOther$0

Top grantees

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

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Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($60k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hawthorne Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDavid Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace: $350,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAsheville Christian Academy Inc: $90,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNew City Christian School: $71,930 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKick Drugs Out of America Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNaples Zoo Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAsheville Art Museum Association Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCouncil on Aging of Buncombe County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMaharishi Foundation USA Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSaint Ann School Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetShiloh Community Association: $4,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina IncNC13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

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About Hawthorne Foundation

How much does Hawthorne Foundation give?
Hawthorne Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $332,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Hawthorne Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (56%), Education (28%), Arts & Culture (7%).
Who are Hawthorne Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace ($350k), Atrium Health Foundation ($200k), University of Miami ($125k).
Does Hawthorne Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hawthorne Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hawthorne Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is Hawthorne Foundation based?
Hawthorne Foundation is based in TX.

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 19 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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