Nebraska · Private foundation
Kenneth (Kim) & Karen Hawkins Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $718k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $158,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $441k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Kenneth (Kim) & Karen Hawkins Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 29 | $717k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $806k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $564k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $473k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $232k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $242k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $202k | 48% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $217k | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morning Star Lutheran Church | $1,276,699 | 9 | n/a |
| College of Saint Mary | $246,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Omaha Zoo Foundation | $240,345 | 6 | 0% |
| Joslyn Art Museum | $124,500 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $123,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Brownell-Talbot School | $110,000 | 3 | 1% |
| United Way of the Midlands | $78,080 | 6 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation | $44,950 | 3 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $23,600 | 6 | 0% |
| The Durham Museum | $19,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kenneth (Kim) & Karen Hawkins Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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 Lozier Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Dr C C and Mabel L Criss Memorial · Amy L Scott Family Foundation · Dixon Family Foundation · The Holland Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Kenneth (Kim) & Karen Hawkins Foundation with peer funders
About Kenneth (Kim) & Karen Hawkins Foundation
- How much does Kenneth (Kim) & Karen Hawkins Foundation give?
- Kenneth (Kim) & Karen Hawkins Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $717,853 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kenneth (Kim) & Karen Hawkins Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (40%), Religion (28%), Education (12%).
- Who are Kenneth (Kim) & Karen Hawkins Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Morning Star Lutheran Church ($1.3M), College of Saint Mary ($246k), Omaha Zoo Foundation ($240k).
- Does Kenneth (Kim) & Karen Hawkins Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kenneth (Kim) & Karen Hawkins Foundation 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 Kenneth (Kim) & Karen Hawkins Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lozier Foundation, The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation.
- Where is Kenneth (Kim) & Karen Hawkins Foundation based?
- Kenneth (Kim) & Karen Hawkins Foundation is based in NE.
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