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Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
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.

Arts & Culture$5.4MPhilanthropy$3.4MFood & Nutrition$1.0MHuman Services$950kHealth$725kRecreation & Sports$450kEducation$375kPublic Benefit$25k
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $925k
  • $250k+3 grants · $750k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$44M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA$250,000
NEW ORLEANS BALLET ASSOCIATION$250,000
NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART$250,000
GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION$200,000
NEW ORLEANS OPERA ASSOCIATION$200,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$175,000
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS$100,000
BRIDGE HOUSE$100,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM$50,000
ISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL$25,000
LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL$25,000
DELTA OLYMPIC SAILING ASSOCIATION$25,000
JEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY$25,000
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $175k → 15%GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $910k → 23%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $150k → 15%GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $510k → 23%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $150k → 15%GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $400k → 23%GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $400k → 23%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $150k → 15%GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $400k → 23%GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $300k → 23%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $100k → 15%GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $250k → 23%NEW ORLEANS OPERA ASSOCIATION: $200k → 23%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $100k → 15%GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $200k → 23%NEW ORLEANS OPERA ASSOCIATION: $200k → 23%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $100k → 15%NEW ORLEANS OPERA ASSOCIATION: $150k → 23%DELTA OLYMPIC SAILING ASSOCIATION: $150k → 23%NEW ORLEANS OPERA ASSOCIATION: $150k → 23%NEW ORLEANS OPERA ASSOCIATION: $125k → 23%NEW ORLEANS OPERA ASSOCIATION: $125k → 23%NEW ORLEANS OPERA ASSOCIATION: $125k → 23%NEW ORLEANS OPERA ASSOCIATION: $125k → 23%NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $250k → 23%NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $200k → 23%NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $150k → 23%NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $150k → 23%NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $125k → 23%NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $125k → 23%NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $125k → 23%NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $125k → 23%LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $250k → 23%NEW ORLEANS BALLET ASSOCIATION: $250k → 23%NEW ORLEANS BALLET ASSOCIATION: $200k → 23%LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $200k → 23%NEW ORLEANS BALLET ASSOCIATION: $150k → 23%LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $150k → 23%LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $150k → 23%NEW ORLEANS BALLET ASSOCIATION: $150k → 23%NEW ORLEANS BALLET ASSOCIATION: $125k → 23%NEW ORLEANS BALLET ASSOCIATION: $125k → 23%NEW ORLEANS BALLET ASSOCIATION: $125k → 23%LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $125k → 23%LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $125k → 23%LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $125k → 23%NEW ORLEANS BALLET ASSOCIATION: $125k → 23%LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $125k → 23%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 17% of Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr 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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.9M · 17 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against -49% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
1

Total granted

$8.9M
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
-49%

Still filing today

71%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
Arts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthHuman ServicesEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • NO
    New Orleans Ballet Association
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +84%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +21%
  • BH
    BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $625k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • LN
    LOUISIANA NATIONAL GUARD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -49%
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
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.

Philanthropy
2
Musical Arts Society of New Orleans

Masno's vision is to be a primary source in establishing new orleans as a vital and vibrant center for the musical arts recognized regionally, nationally, and internationally. masno's mission is 1) to create opportunities to hear,…

Arts & Culture
3
Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra

Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra ("GNOYO") provides young musicians the opportunity to participate in a high-quality, full orchestra program. Participants significantly improve individual performance and ensemble skills, while…

Arts & Culture
4
Louisiana State Bar Association

The mission of the louisiana state bar association is to assist its members in the practice of law, assure access to and aid in the administration of justice, assist the supreme court in the regulation of the practice of law, uphold the…

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5
Arts Council of New Orleans

The Arts Council of New Orleans dba Arts New Orleans is a private, nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) status dedicated to supporting arts and culture in the city.

Arts & Culture
6
New Orleans Ballet Inc Dba New Orleans Ballet Theatre

The mission of new orleans ballet theatre (nobt) is to be the premier resident ballet company of the gulf south internationally renowned for world-class performances, innovative choreography, and outstanding professional training,…

Arts & Culture
7
New Orleans Metropolitan Association of Realtors Inc

To be the trusted advocate and resource for our members and the greater new orleans real estate community. we promote the business interests of our members, enhance their professional image and practice, and champion private property…

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8
Lyrica Baroque

The mission of lyrica baroque is to support a diverse community of students, teachers, artists, institutions and audiences of all ages through education, collaboration and performance. lyrica baroque seeks to promote the extraordinary…

Arts & Culture
9
Aia Louisiana

To promote architecture.

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10
Nashville Opera Association

To bravely imagine the power and passion of opera and who can sing and enjoy it.

Arts & Culture
11
New Orleans Public Library Foundation

Support of the city of new orleans library system and city wide literacy efforts through parnter organizations, community organizations and initiatives including fundraising and expending funds to supplement library operations.

Education
12
New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation Inc

Support of the new orleans police department and orleans parish criminal justice system along with crime prevention activities with the public. nopjf helps the nopd initiate innovative programs that make new orleans a safer place to live,…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra; the most unlike its peers is Delta Olympic Sailing Association. 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

15 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. 15 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $1,250,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ARTNew Orleans Ballet Association: $1,250,000 · Arts & CultureNew Orleans Ballet AssociationTHE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $1,250,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRANEW ORLEANS OPERA ASSOCIATION: $1,200,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS OPERA ASSOCIATION+1 more: $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $3,370,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDA…DELTA OLYMPIC SAILING ASSOCIATION: $450,000 · OtherDELTA OLYMPIC SA…DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS: $400,000 · OtherDISABLED AMERICA…NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM: $250,000 · OtherNATIONAL WWII MU…Individual grant recipient: $225,000 · OtherIndividual grant…THE LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL: $200,000 · OtherTHE LOUISE S MCG…ALEXANDER MILNE DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $100,000 · OtherALEXANDER MILNE …FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $75,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE RIVERTOWN THEATERS: $60,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $1,025,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HA…BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION: $625,000 · HealthWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL: $175,000 · EducationLOUISIANA NATIONAL GUARD FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Public Benefit
Arts & Culture$5,100,000Philanthropy$3,370,000Other$1,760,000Food & Nutrition$1,025,000Health$625,000Human Services$250,000Education$175,000Public Benefit$25,000

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 budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $3,370,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $1,250,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetNew Orleans Ballet Association: $1,250,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetTHE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $1,250,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetNEW ORLEANS OPERA ASSOCIATION: $1,200,000 over 8y, 8.6% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $1,025,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION: $625,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetDELTA OLYMPIC SAILING ASSOCIATION: $450,000 over 7y, 100% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $250,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL: $200,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL: $175,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $150,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetALEXANDER MILNE DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $100,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $75,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetLOUISIANA NATIONAL GUARD FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds New Orleans Ballet Association ↗
  • Who funds THE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds NEW ORLEANS OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds DELTA OLYMPIC SAILING ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds JEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ALEXANDER MILNE DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS ↗
  • Who funds LOUISIANA NATIONAL GUARD FOUNDATION ↗

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 Greater New Orlea…J Edgar Monroe Founda…Goldring Family Found…Luther and Zita Templ…Patrick F Taylor Foun…Shell USA Company Fou…The Alex Berger Found…Wendell & Anne Gauthi…Woldenberg FoundationLouise H Moffett Fami…The Booth-Bricker FundEugenie & Joseph Jone…
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Luther and Zita Templeman Foundation · Patrick F Taylor Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Alex Berger Foundation · Wendell & Anne Gauthier Family Foundation · Woldenberg Foundation · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation · The Booth-Bricker Fund · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family 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 Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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