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The Hawkins Foundation Inc

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.

$601k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$515k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0177% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.2MHealth$731kFood & Nutrition$185kScience & Tech$59kReligion$33kHousing & Shelter$15kInternational$10kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
  • $250k+1 grant · $515k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHEPHERD CENTER$515,000
FRIENDS OF REFUGEES$64,220
Individual grant recipient$10,000
TRINITY SCHOOL$7,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
DEVELOPMENT IN GARDENING$1,000
BUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY$1,000
DAVIDSON ATHELIC FUND$500
MARR$500
EMORY UNIVERISTY$500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LANGDALE UNITED METHODIST: $10k → 21%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY: $63k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 11%MOUNT KENYA ACADEMY FOUN: $20k → 8%NORTHSIDE UMC: $100k → 13%LAGRANGE COLLEGE: $200k → 18%CLEVELAND APL: $20k → 17%UNIV OF VIRGINIA: $10k → 8%PARTNERS IN HEALTH: $10k → 6%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY: $63k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 11%NORTHSIDE UMC: $75k → 13%LAGRANGE COLLEGE: $200k → 18%UNIV OF VIRGINIA: $8k → 8%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY: $63k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 11%NORTHSIDE UMC: $50k → 13%LAGRANGE COLLEGE: $200k → 18%UNIV OF VIRGINIA: $8k → 8%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 11%NORTHSIDE UMC: $50k → 13%LAGRANGE COLLEGE: $28k → 18%UNIV OF VIRGINIA: $8k → 8%NORTHSIDE UMC: $15k → 13%LAGRANGE COLLEGE: $10k → 18%NORTHSIDE UMC: $10k → 13%LAGRANGE COLLEGE: $10k → 18%NORTHSIDE UMC: $10k → 13%NORTHSIDE UMC: $10k → 13%FRIENDS OF REFUGEES: $64k → 14%FRIENDS OF REFUGEES: $55k → 14%FRIENDS OF REFUGEES: $55k → 14%SHEPHERD CENTER: $515k → 13%SHEPHERD CENTER: $95k → 13%SHEPHERD CENTER: $35k → 13%SHEPHERD CENTER: $25k → 13%SHEPHERD CENTER: $25k → 13%SHEPHERD CENTER: $18k → 13%SHEPHERD CENTER: $10k → 13%WESTMINSTER SCHOOLS: $680k → 13%WESTMINSTER SCHOOLS: $675k → 13%WESTMINSTER SCHOOLS: $630k → 13%WESTMINSTER SCHOOLS: $30k → 13%WESTMINSTER SCHOOLS: $30k → 13%TRINITY SCHOOL: $21k → 13%TRINITY SCHOOL: $13k → 13%TRINITY SCHOOL: $9k → 13%HOUSING TONIGHT: $10k → 13%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

NY
MA
OH
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 26 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
14

Total granted

$4.4M
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+84%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% 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
EducationHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • TW
    The Westminster Schools Inc
    5× · 2017–2021 · $2.0M · revenue +43%
  • SC
    SHEPHERD CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $728k · revenue +59%
  • Vanderbilt University
    3× · 2017–2019 · $188k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • MK
    MOUNT KENYA ACADEMY FOUN
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • HT
    HOUSING TONIGHT INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -64%
  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +84%
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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Marietta College

Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…

Education
5
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education
8
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
9
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
10
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Grady Health Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

23 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. 23 of the 42 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
19/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Westminster Schools Inc: $2,045,000 · EducationThe Westminster Schools IncLaGrange College: $648,000 · EducationLaGrange CollegeVanderbilt University: $187,500 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityDUKE UNIVERSITY: $125,000 · Education+6 more: $157,750 · EducationSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $727,500 · HealthSHEPHERD CENTER IN…+1 more: $10,000 · HealthIndividual grant recipient: $320,000 · OtherIndividual …UNIV OF VIRGINIA: $32,500 · OtherUNIV OF VIR…Individual grant recipient: $22,525 · OtherMOUNT KENYA ACADEMY FOUN: $20,000 · Other+21 more: $73,000 · Other+21 moreFRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC: $184,216 · Food & NutritionUNION MISSION INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterRIVERKEEPER INC: $2,500 · EnvironmentCHATTOOGA CONSERVANCY: $1,000 · EnvironmentBUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC: $3,000 · Religion
Education$3,163,250Health$737,500Other$468,025Food & Nutrition$184,216Housing & Shelter$5,000Environment$3,500Religion$3,000

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 Westminster Schools Inc: $2,045,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $727,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLaGrange College: $648,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetVanderbilt University: $187,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC: $184,216 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY SCHOOL INC: $77,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $55,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREINHARDT UNIVERSITY: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING TONIGHT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNION MISSION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARCS FOUNDATION INC ATLANTA CHAPTER: $3,750 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetODYSSEY INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHATTOOGA CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetROAD SAFE AMERICA: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBoy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEVELOPMENT IN GARDENING: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 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 Westminster Schools Inc ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds LaGrange College ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds REINHARDT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING TONIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds UNION MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds ARCS FOUNDATION INC ATLANTA CHAPTER ↗
  • Who funds ODYSSEY INC ↗
  • Who funds BUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CHATTOOGA CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds ROAD SAFE AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Boy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council ↗
  • Who funds THE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DEVELOPMENT IN GARDENING ↗
  • Who funds THE ATLANTA WOMENS 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.

The Community Foundat…Georgia Power Foundat…Frances Wood Wilson F…The Sartain Lanier Fa…Community Foundation …The Cole Family Chari…Patterson Family Foun…Community Foundation …Smurfit Westrock US F…United Way of Greater…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA22.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Frances Wood Wilson Foundation Inc · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · The Cole Family Charitable Foundation Co Charles Edwin Cole Trustee · Patterson Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Smurfit Westrock US Foundation F/K/A Westrock Foundation · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
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How do I get to The Hawkins Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Hawkins Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 42 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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