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Hawthorne Foundation at a glance

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Hawthorne Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$333k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $325k
$125,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$365k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION$200,000
DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION$125,000
BASILICA OF ST LAWRENCE$7,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY: $10k → 12%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 28% of Hawthorne Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 7% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 31%.

Hawthorne Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$622k · 7 repeat orgs$439k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
11

Total granted

$622k
$239k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+57%

Still filing today

57%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
HealthEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AC
    Asheville Christian Academy Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $90k · revenue +120%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +33%
  • KD
    Kick Drugs Out of America Foundation
    2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Miamigraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue +48%
  • NZ
    NAPLES ZOO INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +57%
  • HC
    HOUSTON'S CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +88%
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
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
2
Colorado Christian Academy

Colorado christian academy provides an innovative christ-centered education that prioritizes academic achievements and individual development of the whole child. in relationship with parents, we will build healthy foundations that result…

Education
3
Saint Ann's School

Saint ann's exists to nurture the wonder of children. unfettered by grades, teachers and students embark on journeys of discovery in which the arts are central. through an ambitious curriculum and a culture of inquiry, we question the…

Education
4
American College of Lifestyle Medicine

Mission statement: advancing evidence-based lifestyle medicine to treat, reverse and prevent non-communicable, chronic disease. vision statement: a nation and world wherein lifestyle medicine is the foundation of health and all healthcare.…

Health
5
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
6
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…

Arts & Culture
7
Walnut Grove Christian School

We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…

Education
8
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
9
National Association of Charter School Authorizers

To promote the establishment and operation of quality charter schools through responsible oversight in the public interest. nacsa serves the education and resource needs of the full range of chartering authorities across the country, whose…

Education
10
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…

Health
11
Association of American Medical Colleges

Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.

Education
12
Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atrium Health Foundation; the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 19 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $350,000 · PhilanthropyDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSN…ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $200,000 · HealthATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATIONAmerican Heart Association Inc: $40,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Associatio…University of Miami: $125,000 · EducationUniversity of MiamiAsheville Christian Academy Inc: $90,000 · EducationAsheville Christian Ac…NEW CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $71,930 · OtherNEW CITY CHRISTIAN …SONS OF THE FLAG: $25,000 · OtherSONS OF THE FLAGBASILICA OF ST LAWRENCE: $15,000 · OtherBASILICA OF ST LAWR…HORATION ALGER ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · OtherHORATION ALGER ASSO…MAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC: $10,000 · OtherMAHARISHI FOUNDATIO…SAINT ANN SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherSAINT ANN SCHOOL FO…Asheville Art Museum Association Inc: $20,000 · OtherAsheville Art Museu…COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC: $10,000 · OtherCOUNCIL ON AGING OF…+3 more: $9,000 · OtherKick Drugs Out of America Foundation: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentNAPLES ZOO INC: $20,000 · AnimalsHOUSTON'S CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC: $20,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$350,000Health$240,000Education$215,000Other$185,930Youth Development$30,000Animals$20,000Community Improvement$20,000

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 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
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.

The Community Foundat…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hawthorne Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hawthorne Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 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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