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The Hawkins Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ONE THREAD COLLECTIVE | $10,000 |
| MUFFIN MUSIC | $5,000 |
| TRIBAL TRUST FDN | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $2,000 |
| SB RESCUE MISSION | $1,000 |
| HEAL THE OCEAN | $1,000 |
| CASA OF SANTA BARBARA | $1,000 |
| JACK REID FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BLACK GIRLS CODE | $1,000 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS | $1,000 |
| PACHAMAMA ALLIANCE | $1,000 |
| SY VALLEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $1,000 |
| WOMENS ECONOMIC VENTURES | $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 (FY19–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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 +49% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 6 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TTTRIBAL TRUST FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue ×45 · 33% of their budget
SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION5× · 2018–2022 · $14k · revenue +13%- HTHEAL THE OCEAN INC5× · 2021–2025 · $9k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN SHELTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +226%
- TPTHE POOR PEOPLES CAMPAIGNone grant, 2021 · $4k
- AWAmazon Watch Incone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -36%
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.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
One Earth's mission is to empower everyone, everywhere, with the knowledge, inspiration, and opportunity to heal the Earth and reclaim our future.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
The mission of the santa barbara foundation (sbf) is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.
California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
To mobilize people in local communities around the world to protect marine wildlife and the oceans and inland watersheds that sustain them.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heal the Ocean Inc and the most unlike its peers is One Thread Collective. 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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 16% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 81 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 TRIBAL TRUST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONE THREAD COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Thurgood Marshall College Fund ↗
- Who funds BLACK GIRLS CODE INC ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE OCEAN INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds Cool Effect Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Muffin Music Inc ↗
- Who funds The Poor Peoples Campaign Inc ↗
- Who funds Wilderness Youth Project Inc ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds Amazon Watch Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds Boys to Men Mentoring Network Inc ↗
- Who funds GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND ↗
- Who funds The Pachamama Alliance ↗
- Who funds FISH REEF PROJECT ↗
- Who funds JACK REID FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS 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: Santa Barbara Foundation · California Community Foundation · Www Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · 2005 Tomchin Family Charitable Trust · Schlinger Chrisman Foundation Northern Trust Company Trustee · Mosher Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Manitou Fund · Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation
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 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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