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Hewson Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$810k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
56%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$60,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$160,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 9
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$15M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 56% of the organizations Hewson Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 66% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $657k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
PhilanthropyHousing & ShelterEducationHuman ServicesPublic BenefitFood & NutritionOther
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
FY2024still arriving13$810k46%
FY20239$1.0M56%
FY20228$486k50%
FY20216$289k50%
FY20207$172k71%
FY20196$207k50%
FY20184$121k25%
FY20178$143kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.4MPhilanthropy$960kHuman Services$592kHealth$124kScience & Tech$40kPublic Benefit$25kArts & Culture$25kFood & Nutrition$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($829k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Hewson Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of West Alabama Inc: $755,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetFreedom Farm Inc: $550,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTuscaloosa City Schools Educational Foundation Inc: $480,000 over 3y, 55% of budgetUnited Way of Tarrant County: $195,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNch Healthcare System Inc: $112,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetSaban Center Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAmerican Academy of Achievement: $100,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetThe Kristen Amerson Youth Foundation In: $26,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetWhite House Historical Association: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Service Organizations Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Texas Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCapital Area Food Bank Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVolunteer Florida Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThomas Plott Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLena Pope Home Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAir & Space Forces Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJunior League of Tuscaloosa Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.9% 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 18.

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 Reese Phifer Jr Memorial Attn Susan CorkAL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Reese Phifer Jr Memorial Attn Susan Cork · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Westervelt Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Hewson Family Foundation Inc

How much does Hewson Family Foundation Inc give?
Hewson Family Foundation Inc reported 13 grants totaling $810,300 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Hewson Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (44%), Philanthropy (30%), Human Services (18%).
Who are Hewson Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United Way of West Alabama Inc ($755k), Freedom Farm Inc ($550k), Tuscaloosa City Schools Educational Foundation Inc ($480k).
Does Hewson Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hewson Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hewson Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Reese Phifer Jr Memorial Attn Susan Cork, Alabama Power Foundation Inc, The Westervelt Foundation.
Where is Hewson Family Foundation Inc based?
Hewson Family Foundation Inc is based in AL.

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 35 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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