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The Hawley Foundation for Children

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$148k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$48k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$285kEducation$270kRecreation & Sports$186kYouth Development$43kFood & Nutrition$32kArts & Culture$28kReligion$20kHousing & Shelter$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $61k
$4,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLLEGE GRANT RECIPIENTS$48,250
SARATOGA SPRINGS REC DEPT$13,000
Individual grant recipient$7,000
RACE TRACK CHAPLAINCY$6,000
MECHANICVILLE AREA COMM SERVICES CENTER$6,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF BALLSTON SPA$5,000
WELLSPRING$5,000
LIFEWORKS COMMUNITY ACTION$5,000
FRANKLIN COMMUNITY CENTER$5,000
SNACPACK PROGRAM$5,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
BACC - BALLSTON AREA COMMUNITY CENTER$4,000
WELLSPRING$3,000
THERAPEUTIC HORSES OF SARATOGA$3,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–25, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CAPTAIN YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 7%CAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $5k → 12%CAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $5k → 12%CAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $5k → 12%CAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $4k → 12%CAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $3k → 12%WELLSPRING: $7k → 7%WELLSPRING: $5k → 7%WELLSPRING: $3k → 7%AIM SERVICES INC: $2k → 7%AIM SERVICES INC: $2k → 7%AIM SERVICES INC: $1k → 7%AIM SERVICES INC: $500 → 7%WELLSPRING: $10k → 7%LIFEWORKS COMMUNITY ACTION: $8k → 7%LIFEWORKS COMMUNITY ACTION: $6k → 7%LIFEWORKS COMMUNITY ACTION: $6k → 7%LIFEWORKS COMMUNITY ACTION: $5k → 7%LIFEWORKS COMMUNITY ACTION: $5k → 7%WELLSPRING: $5k → 7%WELLSPRING: $5k → 7%WELLSPRING: $3k → 7%WELLSPRING: $3k → 7%ROUNDABOUT RUNNER CLUB: $900 → 7%ROUNDABOUT RUNNERS CLUB: $500 → 7%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.
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.
$865k · 25 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
13

Total granted

$865k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+13%

Still filing today

56%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterArts & CultureCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SR
    Saratoga Regional YMCA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +210%
  • LC
    LIFEWORKS COMMUNITY ACTION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +23%
  • CC
    CAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • TO
    TOWN OF GREENFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • CO
    CCE OF SARATOGA COUNTY
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
Saratoga Springs Fc
Recreation & Sports
2
Saratoga Independent School

None

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3
Arc Foundation of Saratoga County Inc

Conducts fundraising and other recreational activities on behalf of individuals with developmental disabilities in saratoga county, new york.

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4
Saratoga Volleyball Club Inc

Saratoga volleyball club, based out of saratoga springs ny, provides an instructional and competitive environment to develop individual and team skills for junior volleyball players.the club was established in 2019 and is currently…

Recreation & Sports
5
The Catskill Recreation Center Inc
Recreation & Sports
6
Saratoga County Foundation Inc

The organization supports a wide range of programs of benefit to everyone who lives, works, and plays in saratoga county, ny.

Environment
7
Saratoga Care Inc

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health
8
Niagara County Chapter Nysarc Inc Opportunities Unlimited of Niagara

To ensure that individuals from niagara county who are developmentally disabled or intellectually, physically or functionally limited, have the opportunity to reach their maximum potential, independence and integration into the community.

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9
Saratoga Rowing Association Inc

Provides education, training, instruction and participation in the art of rowing to the youth and adults of saratoga springs and surrounding communities.

Recreation & Sports
10
Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester Inc

The louis s. wolk jcc of greater rochester is deeply rooted in and committed to celebrating jewish traditions and values. we welcome the community at large to join together for exceptional events and activities that establish lifelong…

Human Services
11
Jewish Community Center of Schenectady Inc

Our mission is to build a vibrant, welcoming, and inclusive community that embraces our jewish values, culture, identity and connections to israel, engages the local community, and enhances the body, mind and spirit of our members.

Religion
12
Senior Citizens Center of Saratoga Springs Inc

The corporation is organized to promote the best interests for the senior citizens of the city of saratoga springs, new york and the county of saratoga in the state of new york; to maintain and operate a building as a meeting place for…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saratoga Center for the Family; the most unlike its peers is Roundabout Runners Club Inc. 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

20 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. 20 of the 40 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLLEGE GRANT RECIPIENTS: $263,250 · OtherCOLLEGE GRANT RECIPIENTSSARATOGA SPRINGS REC DEPT: $124,000 · OtherSARATOGA SPRINGS REC DEPTFRANKLIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $52,100 · OtherFRANKLIN COMMUNITY CENTER INCMECHANICVILLE AREA COMM SERVICES CENTER: $41,750 · OtherMECHANICVILLE AREA COMM SERVICES CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherSaratoga Regional YMCA: $32,250 · OtherSNACPACK PROGRAM INC: $28,750 · Other+20 more: $164,903 · Other+20 moreDOMESTIC VIOLENCE & RAPE CRISIS SERVICES OF SARATOGA COUNTY INC: $40,500 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIO…LIFEWORKS COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $29,500 · Human ServicesLIFEWORKS CO…CAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $27,000 · Human ServicesCAPTAIN COMM…AIM SERVICES INC: $5,500 · Human Services+1 more: $1,400 · Human ServicesGLENS FALLS AREA YOUTH CENTER INC: $23,500 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP ABILITIES SARATOGA INC: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentREBUILDING TOGETHER SARATOGA COUNTY INC: $16,500 · Housing & ShelterSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $1,750 · Housing & ShelterBALLSTON AREA COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $16,300 · Crime & LegalTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AT SARATOGA: $3,000 · Arts & CultureSARATOGA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $1,500 · Arts & CultureTHE SARATOGA HOSPITAL: $4,000 · Health
Other$742,003Human Services$103,900Youth Development$25,500Housing & Shelter$18,250Crime & Legal$16,300Arts & Culture$4,500Health$4,000

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 budgetFRANKLIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $52,100 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE & RAPE CRISIS SERVICES OF SARATOGA COUNTY INC: $40,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSaratoga Regional YMCA: $32,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLIFEWORKS COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $29,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $27,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGLENS FALLS AREA YOUTH CENTER INC: $23,500 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetSARATOGA CENTER FOR THE FAMILY: $18,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER SARATOGA COUNTY INC: $16,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBALLSTON AREA COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $16,300 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAIM SERVICES INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHERAPEUTIC HORSES OF SARATOGA INC: $3,750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPITNEY MEADOWS COMMUNITY FARM INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AT SARATOGA: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CAPITAL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCAMP ABILITIES SARATOGA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAST BREAK FUND INC: $1,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSARATOGA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRoundabout Runners Club Inc: $1,400 over 2y, 1.2% 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 FRANKLIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & RAPE CRISIS SERVICES OF SARATOGA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Saratoga Regional YMCA ↗
  • Who funds LIFEWORKS COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds GLENS FALLS AREA YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SARATOGA CENTER FOR THE FAMILY ↗
  • Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER SARATOGA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds BALLSTON AREA COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AIM SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SARATOGA HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds THERAPEUTIC HORSES OF SARATOGA INC ↗
  • Who funds PITNEY MEADOWS COMMUNITY FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AT SARATOGA ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CAPITAL ↗
  • Who funds CAMP ABILITIES SARATOGA INC ↗
  • Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds FAST BREAK FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SARATOGA CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds Roundabout Runners Club 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 Foundation for the Greater Capital Region IncNY34× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Charles R Wood Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Adirondack Trust Company Community Fund · The Mitzen Foundation Inc · Globalfoundriestown of Malta Foundation Inc · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Alfred Z Solomon Testamentary Trust · Saratoga Casino Hotel Foundation Inc · William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation Inc · Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc

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 Hawley Foundation for Children funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hawley Foundation for Children. 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%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Hawley Foundation for Children?

    Find your warmest path to The Hawley Foundation for Children 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 40 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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