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The Hawkins Family Foundation Trust at a glance

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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.

$35k
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$102kReligion$87kYouth Development$49kHealth$45kInternational$39kHuman Services$33kPublic Benefit$16kArts & Culture$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
13
States reached
$936k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEST COUNTY LUTHERAN CHURCH$6,200
MISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$2,500
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$2,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$2,000
AMERICASHARE$1,850
CSH KIWANIS FOUNDATION$1,680
KIDSMART$1,500
MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDENS$1,500
HOME SWEET HOME$1,500
FOREST PARK FOREVER$1,000
ST LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION$1,000
THE MUNY$1,000
DRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION$1,000
LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF$1,000
UROLOGICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION$1,000
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR: $1k → 11%MISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR: $500 → 11%MISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR: $500 → 11%MISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR: $500 → 11%HOME SWEET HOME: $2k → 11%HOME SWEET HOME: $500 → 11%HOME SWEET HOME: $250 → 11%GATEWAY REGION YMCA: $3k → 21%GATEWAY REGION YMCA: $3k → 21%GATEWAY REGION YMCA: $3k → 21%GATEWAY REGION YMCA: $2k → 21%GATEWAY REGION YMCA: $500 → 21%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

MN
IL
NY
IN
OH
NJ
CA
MO
VA
MD
NM
TN
NC
DC
LA
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$406k · 53 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
12

Total granted

$406k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+12%

Still filing today

62%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • FM
    FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +42%
  • United States Association for UNHCR
    6× · 2017–2022 · $18k · revenue +67%
  • MB
    MISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $15k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • FT
    FEED THE NEED STLgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +110%
  • GF
    GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +180%
  • NG
    NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -10%
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
Missouri Historical Society

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.…

Arts & Culture
2
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

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…

Food & Nutrition
3
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
4
Greater St Louis Inc

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…

Community Improvement
5
Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement
6
The Minneapolis Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
7
St Louis Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
8
Build Missouri Health

To foster and amplify community-led innovations through partnerships resulting in radical system changes that create equitable health outcomes.

Human Services
9
Jefferson National Parks Association

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.

Arts & Culture
10
The Missouri Foundation for Health

To eliminate underlying causes of health inequities, transform systems and enable individuals and communities to thrive

Health
11
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

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

Philanthropy
12
St Louis Science Center Foundation

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).

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Food Search Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 68 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
34/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YMCA OF THE OZARKS: $47,850 · OtherYMCA OF THE OZARKSGOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH: $44,250 · OtherGOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCHWEST COUNTY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $39,200 · OtherWEST COUNTY LUTHERAN CHURCHFOODBANK OF NORTHWEST IN: $26,000 · OtherFOODBANK OF NORTHWEST INTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $9,700 · Other+41 more: $96,275 · Other+41 moreFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $44,900 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING C…United States Association for UNHCR: $18,000 · InternationalUnited States Asso…WINGS OF HOPE: $4,000 · InternationalWINGS OF HOPE+1 more: $2,000 · InternationalTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE: $16,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,750 · EducationKIDSMART INC: $2,500 · EducationNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $1,000 · EducationSouth City Community School: $1,000 · EducationMISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $14,700 · HealthPINK RIBBON GOOD INC: $4,200 · Health+2 more: $550 · HealthGATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $11,500 · Human ServicesMISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR: $2,500 · Human ServicesHOME SWEET HOME: $2,250 · Human ServicesNourish Up: $750 · Human ServicesFEED THE NEED STL: $10,000 · Food & NutritionOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $6,500 · Food & NutritionForest Park Forever Inc: $8,000 · EnvironmentMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $6,050 · Environment+1 more: $350 · Environment
Other$263,275International$68,900Education$26,250Health$19,450Human Services$17,000Food & Nutrition$16,500Environment$14,400

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $44,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $14,700 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE NEED STL: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $9,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA SHARE USA INC: $8,350 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUROLOGICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $6,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $6,050 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATION: $4,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPINK RIBBON GOOD INC: $4,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWINGS OF HOPE: $4,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF MISSOURI: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTAGES ST LOUIS: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $2,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKIDSMART INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS: $2,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOME SWEET HOME: $2,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOYCE: $1,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe German St Vincent Orphan Association: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $1,430 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAGIC HOUSE: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth City Community School: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES INC: $850 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNourish Up: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $280 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $50 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 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 Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
  • Who funds UROLOGICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 WINGS OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds STAGES ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR ↗
  • Who funds KIDSMART INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

St Louis Community Fo…St Louis Community Fo…United Way of Greater…Employees Community F…Commerce Bancshares F…The Bellwether Founda…Edward Jones Foundati…Moneta Group Charitab…World Wide Technology…Berges Family Foundat…Brown Dana Charitable…Regional Cultural and…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO30.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 68 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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