Minnesota · Private foundation
The Hawkins Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $334k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 47
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations The Hawkins Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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 | 39 | $323k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $491k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $776k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $195k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $254k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $255k | 48% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $227k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 47 | $518k | 55% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ducks Unlimited Inc | $500,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Project Success | $350,900 | 4 | 8% |
| US Naval Academy Foundation Inc | $123,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Conservancy of Southwest Florida | $97,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Gulfshore Playhouse Inc | $77,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Land Stewardship Project | $55,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Gfwc Naples Woman's Club Inc | $53,400 | 9 | 3% |
| Guthrie Theater Foundation | $42,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Lake Street Council | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Jungle Theater | $20,750 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 75 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 81 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Hawkins Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Hardenbergh Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Osilas Foundation · Nicholson Family Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · Collier Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Hawkins Family Foundation
- How much does The Hawkins Family Foundation give?
- The Hawkins Family Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $334,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Hawkins Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (59%), Environment (14%), Youth Development (7%).
- Who are The Hawkins Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ducks Unlimited Inc ($500k), Project Success ($351k), US Naval Academy Foundation Inc ($124k).
- Does The Hawkins Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Hawkins Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Hawkins Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Hawkins Family Foundation based?
- The Hawkins Family Foundation is based in MN.
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