· Private foundation
The Hawkins Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $151k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $125,000 |
| NAAA | $31,000 |
| INNOVATION ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $15,000 |
| WORLD KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| WHITE BEAR LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHILDRENS CANCER RESEARCH FUND | $10,000 |
| EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFTEY | $10,000 |
| DELTA WATERFOWL | $10,000 |
| GARGIULO EDUCATION CENTER | $5,000 |
| LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS | $5,000 |
| MCEA | $5,000 |
| NAPLES WOMANS CLUB | $5,000 |
| ALIGHT | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- DUDucks Unlimited Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $500k · revenue +77%
- PSPROJECT SUCCESS4× · 2018–2024 · $351k · revenue +171%
- UNUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2022 · $124k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- LPLAKESHORE PLAYERS THEATREone grant, 2018 · $25k
- LSLake Street Councilone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -85%
- IOINIVESITY OF MN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
The minnesota state fair foundation's mission is to preserve and improve the historic minnesota state fairgrounds and support state fair programs and projects in agriculture, arts & culture, education, the environment, and history.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation and the most unlike its peers is North Naples Education Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 162 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GFWC NAPLES WOMAN'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lake Street Council ↗
- Who funds THE JUNGLE THEATER ↗
- Who funds IMMOKALEE FAIR HOUSING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
- Who funds ONE WORLD SURGERY ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FairVote Minnesota ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC ↗
- Who funds Black Men Teach ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WHITE BEAR LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE SAILING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Hawkins Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Gulfshore Playhouse Inc — 0% of income from government
- North Naples Education Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.