· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ONE THREAD COLLECTIVE | $10,000 |
| TRIBAL TRUST FDN | $5,000 |
| MUFFIN MUSIC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $2,000 |
| SAN MATEO CO HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| COOL EFFECT | $1,000 |
| PACHAMAMA ALLIANCE | $1,000 |
| SY VALLEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $1,000 |
| TRANSITION HOUSE AUXILIARY | $1,000 |
| OMPRAKASH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| DIGNITY MOVES SANTA BARBARA | $1,000 |
| WOMENS ECONOMIC VENTURES | $1,000 |
| HEAL THE OCEAN | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +42% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +20%- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES8× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +100%
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
46 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. 46 of the 81 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE OCEAN INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES ↗
- Who funds Cool Effect Inc ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Muffin Music Inc ↗
- Who funds The Poor Peoples Campaign Inc ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds Wilderness Youth Project Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds Boys to Men Mentoring Network Inc ↗
- Who funds Amazon Watch Inc ↗
- Who funds GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND ↗
- Who funds FISH REEF PROJECT ↗
- Who funds The Pachamama Alliance ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hawkins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hawkins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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