· Private foundation
The Hawthorne Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN BUSINESS SCH | $10,000 |
| BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FOUND | $5,000 |
| BOCA GRANDE WOMENS CLUB | $5,000 |
| BENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS | $5,000 |
| GRAND TRAVERSE AREA SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSEV | $1,000 |
| JDRF MIDDLE TENNESSEE CHAPTER | $1,000 |
| GROW BENZIE | $1,000 |
| FATHER FRED FOUNDATION | $515 |
| WOMEN'S RESOURSE CENTER OF NO MI | $500 |
| ST PHILIPS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $500 |
| PLATTE LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION | $200 |
| BENZIE COUNTY COMMUNITY CHEST | $200 |
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, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +34% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- EDEpiscopal Day Private School of Manatee County Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $119k · revenue +36%
- BABENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $67k · revenue +70%
- BGBOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC4× · 2021–2024 · $22k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- TSThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue +34%
- BCBAYSHORE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +234%
- GTGRAND TRAVERSE AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
Palm beach atlantic university equips students to grow in wisdom, lead with conviction and serve god boldly.
Established on christian principles, bay village of sarasota, inc. (bvsi) offers a dynamic, secure, and comprehensive residency for older adults, providing meaningful community life with continuing care. bvsi is a church-related continuing…
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
See schedule othe mission of ballenisles charities foundation is to solicit, collect, administer, and distribute funds for charitable purposes as described in the articles of incorporation of the corporation, including making distributions…
Raise funds to support boca grande health clinic, inc., a not-for-profit health clinic located on a barrier island in florida.
Working to reduce excess nutrients in our waterways that feed red tide and other harmful algal blooms.
The babcock ranch foundation is a florida non-profit corporation whose mission is to support, enhance, and implement projects that positively impact many worthy causes in southwest florida. passionate about the issues that most profoundly…
Brevard schools foundation is the direct-support, non-profit organization which matches community resources with the needs of brevard public schools in order to enhance public education k-12. bsf is designated as a "distinguished"…
Operate a health care clinic and provide 24/7 physican availability on a barrier island.
To support realtors and affiliate members and their ability to conduct a thriving business by focusing on superior customer service, developing innovative products and programs, delivering resources
The bolles school prepares students for college and life by inspiring excellence, courage, integrity and compassion in an academic community dedicated to nurturing mind, body and soul.
To provide food and support services to seniors in need on low incomes and to grandparents raising grandchildren.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Benzie Area Christian Neighbors Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Phoenix Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 51 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 Episcopal Day Private School of Manatee County Inc ↗
- Who funds BENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE ISLAND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BENZIE FOOD PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FATHER FRED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAYSHORE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GROW BENZIE INC ↗
- Who funds Bradenton Christian School Society Inc DBA Bradenton Christian School ↗
- Who funds COGNITION ↗
- Who funds Lake Ann Baptist Camp Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT PHOENIX INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds PLATTE LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RED WHITE & BLUE INC ↗
- Who funds RYON D PROVENCHER MEMORIAL FUND ↗
- Who funds BARRIER ISLAND PARKS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PASCO KIDS FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds STARTING OVER ANIMAL REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS OF PASCO ↗
- Who funds GULF HARBORS CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LCSO FALLEN DEPUTY MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · The Broad Family Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Parr Family Charitable Foundation · Ia Lenoir Charitable Tr · Linda & Barry Allen Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · The James B & Eileen M Kelly Foundation Inc · The Shore Lane Family Foundation Inc · Carbonari Family Foundation · Sweet Peas 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 Hawthorne Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Pasco Kids First Inc — 13% of income from government
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
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.