Michigan · Public charity
The Hawkins Project
THE HAWKINS PROJECT encourages curiosity, awakens joy, and celebrates individuality. With a commitment to empathy and inclusion, the foundation creates and funds courageous literary, visual, public, and other creative works that advance this vision.
- $252k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 11
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $231k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $120,640
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 18
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $579k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations The Hawkins Project funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 11 | $231k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $217k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $364k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $245k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $411k | 88% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $23k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| McSweeney's Literary Arts Fund | $489,531 | 5 | 12% |
| Young Authors Greenhouse Inc | $84,250 | 5 | 13% |
| Choose Yourself | $80,000 | 2 | n/a |
| 826dc Inc | $78,000 | 5 | 4% |
| 826 Msp | $77,025 | 5 | 3% |
| 826 Michigan Inc | $72,034 | 4 | 3% |
| 826 New Orleans | $67,000 | 5 | 4% |
| 826chi Inc | $63,000 | 4 | 4% |
| 826NYC Inc | $62,979 | 5 | 2% |
| 826 Valencia | $61,000 | 4 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| McSweeney's Literary Arts Fund | $489,531 | 5 | 12% |
| Young Authors Greenhouse Inc | $84,250 | 5 | 13% |
| Choose Yourself | $80,000 | 2 | n/a |
| 826dc Inc | $78,000 | 5 | 4% |
| 826 Msp | $77,025 | 5 | 3% |
| 826 Michigan Inc | $72,034 | 4 | 3% |
| 826 New Orleans | $67,000 | 5 | 4% |
| 826chi Inc | $63,000 | 4 | 4% |
| 826NYC Inc | $62,979 | 5 | 2% |
| 826 Valencia | $61,000 | 4 | 1% |
| 826la | $61,000 | 4 | 1% |
| 826 Boston Inc | $47,045 | 4 | 1% |
| Richmond Young Writers | $40,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Valentino Achak Deng Foundation | $35,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Chapter 510 Ink | $30,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Refugee Eye | $29,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Voice of Witness a Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Scholarmatch Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kids Write Good | $15,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Missoula Writing Collaborative | $15,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Lake Erie Ink | $15,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Valentino Achak Deng | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Deep Center Incorporated | $7,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Read and Write Kalamazoo | $7,000 | 1 | 3% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Hawkins Project supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Apatow-Mann Family Foundation Inc · 826 National Inc · The Poetry Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
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About The Hawkins Project
- How much does The Hawkins Project give?
- The Hawkins Project reported 11 itemized grants totaling $230,640, out of $251,659 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Hawkins Project fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (43%), Education (37%), Youth Development (10%).
- Who are The Hawkins Project's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: McSweeney's Literary Arts Fund ($490k), Young Authors Greenhouse Inc ($84k), Choose Yourself ($80k).
- Does The Hawkins Project fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Hawkins Project?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Apatow-Mann Family Foundation Inc, 826 National Inc, The Poetry Foundation.
- Where is The Hawkins Project based?
- The Hawkins Project is based in MI.
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