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Hewson Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$160k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $752k
$60,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tuscaloosa Education Foundation$160,000
United Way of West Alabama$120,000
NCH Healthcare System$112,000
Saban Center Foundation$100,000
Champions for Learning$100,000
Univ of Alabama Culverhouse College$100,000
University of Alabama$60,000
Kristen Amerson Youth Foundation$25,000
White House Historical Association$25,000
Junior Achievement of Tuscaloosa$3,500
Univ of Alabama RISE Program$2,800
Lena Pope Home$1,000
Air and Space Forces Association$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%Lena Pope Home: $1k → 11%Kristen Amerson Youth Foundation: $25k → 17%Kristen Amerson Youth Foundation: $1k → 17%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 12 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
17

Total granted

$2.2M
$714k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+39%

Still filing today

42%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $339k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $755k · revenue +43%
  • AA
    AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACHIEVEMENT
    2× · 2021–2022 · $100k · revenue +143%
  • TK
    The Kristen Amerson Youth Foundation In
    2× · 2023–2024 · $26k · revenue +163%

Funded once

  • FF
    FREEDOM FARM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $550k · revenue -29%
  • UO
    University of Alabama for Hewson Ha
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • AI
    American Inst of Aeronautics Astron
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
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
The University Foundation

The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.

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2
University of Florida Alumni Association Inc

The mission of the university of florida alumni association, inc. ("association") is to exclusively support and enhance the mission of the university of florida ("university") of pursuing "excellence in education and research and shaping a…

Education
3
The National Alumni Society of Uab

The mission of the uab national alumni society is to support the university in its pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, and public service and to create, foster, and nurture a mutually beneficial relationship between the…

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4
Tarrant Area Food Bank

Tarrant Area Food Bank's (TAFB) mission is empowering our community to alleviate hunger and improve health. We value and embrace a culture of fairness and inclusion as fundamental to our vision of empowering communities where no one has to…

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5
University of Texas At San Antonio Alumni Association

To engage our alumni in activities that will advance utsa as a top-tier institution. our focus is to deliver value-added services and events where our alumni can connect with each other, with current students and/or with the university. we…

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6
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
7
Arkansas Foodbank

None

Food & Nutrition
8
Heart of Alabama Food Bank Inc

The food bank operates as a clearing house for the collecting, sorting, storing and distribution of edible food to qualified agencies; who in turn pass the food along to alabama's "food insecure" citizens.

Food & Nutrition
9
The Association of Former Students of Texas a&M University

To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.

Education
10
Arizona State University Alumni Association

To advance arizona state university by enriching the lives of alumni, students and friends and fostering their lifelong connections all while continuing to provide services and programs to alumni.

—
11
University of Virginia Alumni Association

The mission of the alumni association is to build the strongest bond among alumni and between alumni and the university by serving all alumni and students; being the center for engaging and connecting the global uva community; acting as a…

Education
12
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tuscaloosa City Schools Educational Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Thomas Plott Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 35 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INC: $755,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INCTUSCALOOSA CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $480,000 · PhilanthropyTUSCALOOSA CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCUNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY: $195,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyUniversity of Alabama: $331,500 · OtherUniversity of AlabamaUniv of Alabama Culverhouse College: $200,000 · OtherUniv of Alabama Culverhouse Co…Champions for Learning: $100,000 · OtherChampions for LearningUniversity of Alabama for Hewson Ha: $50,000 · OtherUniversity of Alabama for Hews…American Inst of Aeronautics Astron: $40,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $38,000 · Other+13 more: $116,700 · Other+13 moreFREEDOM FARM INC: $550,000 · Housing & ShelterFREEDOM FARM INCNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $112,000 · Health+1 more: $3,000 · HealthSABAN CENTER FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Public BenefitUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $10,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACHIEVEMENT: $100,000 · Education+3 more: $3,000 · EducationThe Kristen Amerson Youth Foundation In: $26,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$1,440,000Other$876,200Housing & Shelter$550,000Health$115,000Public Benefit$110,000Education$103,000Human Services$32,000

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 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
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 Reese Phifer Jr M…Alabama Power Foundat…The Westervelt Founda…Textron Charitable Tr…Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 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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