Iowa · Private foundation
The Hws Charitable Foundation Inc
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.
- $11M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 91
- Grants FY2025
- 102
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $85,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $620,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 78 to 102
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations The Hws Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 80 | $11M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 102 | $10.0M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 96 | $11M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 83 | $7.2M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 87 | $9.0M | 31% |
| FY2020 | 78 | $6.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa Legal Aid | $1,391,335 | 4 | 4% |
| Foster Care Coalition of Greater St Louis | $1,076,494 | 5 | 5% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Springfield Inc | $1,020,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Youth and Shelter Services Inc | $995,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Journey Forward Mentoring | $972,823 | 5 | 97% |
| Ellipsis Inc | $967,399 | 3 | 3% |
| Love Columbia Corp Love Columbia | $937,748 | 6 | 10% |
| Buckner Children & Family Services Inc | $910,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Bishop Enrique San Pedro Ozanam Center Inc | $869,830 | 4 | 10% |
| Casa de Salud | $856,997 | 6 | 18% |
Show all 181 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Hws Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 16 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 170 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: United Way of Central Iowa · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Mid-Iowa Health Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · GreenState Credit Union · Telligen Community Initiative · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Greenstate Foundation · Lsb Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Hws Charitable Foundation Inc
- How much does The Hws Charitable Foundation Inc give?
- The Hws Charitable Foundation Inc reported 91 grants totaling $10,856,667 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 78 and 102 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Hws Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Education (14%), Health (14%).
- Who are The Hws Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Iowa Legal Aid ($1.4M), Foster Care Coalition of Greater St Louis ($1.1M), Boys and Girls Clubs of Springfield Inc ($1.0M).
- Does The Hws Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Hws Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Hws Charitable Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Central Iowa, Commerce Bancshares Foundation, Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation.
- Where is The Hws Charitable Foundation Inc based?
- The Hws Charitable Foundation Inc is based in IA.
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