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The Hawkins Family Foundation at a glance

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The Hawkins Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$334k
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$3.1MEnvironment$707kYouth Development$351kArts & Culture$215kEducation$212kCommunity Improvement$84kHousing & Shelter$69kInternational$56kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k31 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $151k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
$2,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUCKS UNLIMITED$125,000
NAAA$31,000
INNOVATION ACADEMY$30,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN$15,000
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFTEY$10,000
WORLD KITCHEN$10,000
DELTA WATERFOWL$10,000
WHITE BEAR LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
CHILDRENS CANCER RESEARCH FUND$10,000
ALIGHT$5,000
NAPLES WOMANS CLUB$5,000
MCEA$5,000
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS$5,000
GARGIULO EDUCATION CENTER$5,000
02The need
03

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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SDG IMPACT FUND: $250 → 10%FAMILY MEANS: $100 → 6%FAMILY MEANS: $100 → 6%BLACK MEN TEACH: $10k → 11%BLACK MEN TEACH: $2k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $750 → 11%COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE: $2k → 10%WOMENS SHELTER: $400 → 11%SOLID GROUND MN: $500 → 14%SOLID GROUND: $500 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
SD
IA
OH
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
NM
KS
TN
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 69 repeat orgs$326k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
73

Total granted

$2.8M
$251k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+9%

Still filing today

61%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • DU
    Ducks Unlimited Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $500k · revenue +77%
  • PS
    PROJECT SUCCESS
    4× · 2018–2024 · $351k · revenue +171%
  • UN
    US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $124k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • FG
    FLORIDIA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • IO
    INIVESITY OF MN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • LS
    Lake Street Council
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -85%
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
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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2
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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3
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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4
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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…

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5
The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment
6
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

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,…

Education
7
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy
8
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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9
Minnesota Land Trust

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.

Environment
10
Minnesota State Fair Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
11
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
12
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/77
Grantees still filing
52/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION+5 more: $30,500 · PhilanthropyWOMENS FOUNDATION OF MN: $1,011,400 · OtherWOMENS FOUNDATION OF MNTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $97,500 · OtherTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDANAAA: $76,000 · Other+115 more: $537,500 · Other+115 moreDucks Unlimited Inc: $500,000 · EnvironmentDucks Unlimi…LAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT: $55,500 · EnvironmentLAND STEWARD…+5 more: $9,700 · EnvironmentPROJECT SUCCESS: $350,900 · EducationPROJECT SUC…US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $123,500 · EducationUS NAVAL AC…HOPE ACADEMY INC: $17,500 · Education+5 more: $27,750 · Education+5 moreGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC: $77,000 · Arts & CultureGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $42,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JUNGLE THEATER: $20,750 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $12,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $14,500 · Arts & CultureGFWC NAPLES WOMAN'S CLUB INC: $53,400 · Community ImprovementLake Street Council: $25,000 · Community ImprovementWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $20,000 · InternationalONE WORLD SURGERY: $18,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $15,000 · InternationalOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $5,000 · InternationalALIGHT: $5,000 · InternationalPOPE FRANCIS SCHOOL AND HEALTH CENTRE INC: $3,200 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,000 · International+3 more: $5,900 · International
Philanthropy$2,030,500Other$1,722,400Environment$565,200Education$519,650Arts & Culture$166,250Community Improvement$78,400International$75,100

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 MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $500,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT SUCCESS: $350,900 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $123,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $97,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC: $77,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT: $55,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetGFWC NAPLES WOMAN'S CLUB INC: $53,400 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $42,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLake Street Council: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JUNGLE THEATER: $20,750 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMMOKALEE FAIR HOUSING ALLIANCE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONE WORLD SURGERY: $18,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC: $17,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $14,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFairVote Minnesota: $12,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC: $12,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $12,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBlack Men Teach: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER WHITE BEAR LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetLAKE WINNIPESAUKEE SAILING ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION: $5,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALIGHT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH NAPLES EDUCATION CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOMO FRIENDS: $4,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPEACEMAKER MINNESOTA: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFairVote Minnesota Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPLEASANT RIDGE SCHOOL INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT PAUL GARDEN CLUB: $3,850 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $3,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOPE FRANCIS SCHOOL AND HEALTH CENTRE INC: $3,200 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRAYWOLF PRESS: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWINDSTAR CLUB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Advocates For Human Rights: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE BEAR CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
  • Who funds IMMOKALEE FAIR HOUSING ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • 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 FairVote Minnesota ↗
  • Who funds MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC ↗
  • Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds Black Men Teach ↗
  • Who funds GREATER WHITE BEAR LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE SAILING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Mightycause Charitabl…Otto Bremer TrustHardenbergh FoundationFr Bigelow FoundationXcel Energy FoundationOsilas FoundationNicholson Family Foun…The Richard M Schulze…Minnesota Community F…Collier Community Fou…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN44.8× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
22report 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.

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 162 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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