How much does The Hankins Foundation give?

The Hankins Foundation reported 57 grants totaling $561,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 53 and 56 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does The Hankins Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (21%), Arts & Culture (20%), Education (19%).

Who are The Hankins Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Western Reserve Academy ($140k), The Cleveland Play House ($115k), Honorhealth Foundation ($85k).

Does The Hankins Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Hankins 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 The Hankins Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The Swagelok Foundation, The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation.

Where is The Hankins Foundation based?

The Hankins Foundation is based in OH.

The Hankins Foundation

The Hankins Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Hankins Foundation

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.

$562k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$30k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$502kArts & Culture$480kEducation$439kHuman Services$383kPublic Safety & Disaster$110kYouth Development$73kPhilanthropy$66kEnvironment$49kOther$0

02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k29 grants · $136k
$10k–50k28 grants · $426k

$6,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges	$30,000
Western Reserve Academy	$30,000
Cleveland Play House	$25,000
Beech Brook	$20,000
American Red Cross	$20,000
Circle Health Clinic	$20,000
Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging	$20,000
HonorHealth Foundation	$20,000
Hathaway Brown School	$20,000
Fieldstone Farm Therapeutic Riding Center	$16,000
South Central Community Foundation	$15,000
Cleveland Sight Center	$15,000
Achievement Center for Children	$15,000
Lawrence Arts Center	$15,000
Salvation Army	$15,000

02The need

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 (FY20–24, $251k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.2M · 64 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

64 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.2M

$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+46%

Still filing today

70%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther

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

WR
WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY
5× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +56%
BB
Beech Brook
5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +3%
FF
FIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER
5× · 2020–2024 · $66k · revenue +56%

Funded once

WA
Womens Auxillary to Childrens Medical Center of Dallas
one grant, 2020 · $10k
BC
BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -5%
RS
Robert S Hyer Elementary PTA
one grant, 2020 · $5k

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.

Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture

Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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Cleveland Leadership Center

The mission of cleveland leadership center (the organization) is to build a continuum of civic leaders committed to our community's excellence by serving as a catalyst for civic engagement. the organization achieves its mission by…

Education

Cincinnati Museum Association

Through the power of art, we contribute to a more vibrant cincinnati by inspiring its people and connecting our communities.

Arts & Culture

Greater Columbus Arts Council

Mission: to champion and elevate the arts and cultural expression of greater columbus.vision: power of art realized. people engaged. city energized.

Arts & Culture

The Cleveland Foundation

Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.

Philanthropy

Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…

—

Cleveland Botanical Garden

The cleveland botanical garden connects people with the wonder, beauty, and value of trees and plants, to inspire action for healthy communities.

Environment

Ohio State Bar Association

The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.

—

Center for Arts-Inspired Learning

Cal champions creative learning, drives educational innovation, and transforms lives through collaborative efforts involving teaching artists, students, educators, and communities.

Education

Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education

Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Community School; the most unlike its peers is Armstrong Bradfield Preschool Association. 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

61 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. 61 of the 93 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

61/61

Grantees still filing

42/61

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$934,500Education$433,500Arts & Culture$425,000Human Services$251,015Health$197,500Philanthropy$65,000Environment$41,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 Cleveland FoundationOH39.7× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Jane and Jon Outcalt Foundation · Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds

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 The Hankins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hankins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Hankins Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Hankins Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home