· Private foundation
The Hawkins Family Foundation Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST COUNTY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $6,200 |
| MISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $2,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| AMERICASHARE | $1,850 |
| CSH KIWANIS FOUNDATION | $1,680 |
| MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDENS | $1,500 |
| KIDSMART | $1,500 |
| HOME SWEET HOME | $1,500 |
| FOREST PARK FOREVER | $1,000 |
| DRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| UROLOGICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| ST LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | $1,000 |
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, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +34% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- FMFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +42%
United States Association for UNHCR6× · 2017–2022 · $18k · revenue +54%- TRTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- FTFEED THE NEED STLgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +110%
- GFGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +180%
- NGNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -10%
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.
The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…
To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.
To foster and amplify community-led innovations through partnerships resulting in radical system changes that create equitable health outcomes.
Jefferson national parks association provides quality educational products and related services that enhance public understanding and appreciation of america's national parks, public lands and historic places.
To eliminate underlying causes of health inequities, transform systems and enable individuals and communities to thrive
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
Support the st. louis science center and its comprehensive array of educational outreach programs to the community in order to increase interest, understanding and enthusiasm for stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Food Search Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 68 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 FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds THE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FEED THE NEED STL ↗
- Who funds THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICA SHARE USA INC ↗
- Who funds UROLOGICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATION ↗
- Who funds PINK RIBBON GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds STAGES ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds KIDSMART INC ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR ↗
- Who funds HOME SWEET HOME ↗
- Who funds DRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds VOYCE ↗
- Who funds The German St Vincent Orphan Association ↗
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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Bellwether Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Berges Family Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission
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 Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% 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.