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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 FY2025still arriving
91
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$620k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0182% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.

Human Services$14MYouth Development$5.5MHealth$5.1MEducation$5.0MCommunity Improvement$3.6MCrime & Legal$3.0MFood & Nutrition$2.9MPhilanthropy$2.9MHousing & Shelter$1.7MOther$13M
02FY2025 · 91 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k15 grants · $495k
  • $50k–250k64 grants · $5.8M
  • $250k+12 grants · $4.6M
$85,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALESMANSHIP CLUB OF DALLAS$620,000
AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS$465,000
JOURNEY FORWARD MENTORING$465,000
THE BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN PEDRO OZANAM CENTER INC$465,000
ELLIPSIS INC$445,000
MARATHON PUBLIC LIBRARY AND HISTORY MUSEUM$415,000
CHILDREN & FAMILY URBAN MINISTRIES$320,000
NEIGHBORHOOD SOLIDARITY FUND$315,000
FAMILY CRISIS CENTERS INC$290,000
THE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$253,612
UNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$250,000
PALACIOS COMMUNITY HUB$250,000
PROJECT ARRIBA (ADVANCE RETRAINING AND REDEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE IN BOR$200,000
VALLEY INITIATIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND ADVANCEMENT$200,000
VICKERY MEADOW LEARNING CENTER$190,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $13.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN: $325k → 15%FAMILY CRISIS CENTER OF THE BIG BEND INC: $105k → 14%VICKERY MEADOW LEARNING CENTER: $190k → 14%THE BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN PEDRO OZANAM CENTER INC: $465k → 23%FAMILY CRISIS CENTERS INC: $290k → 8%WAYPOINT SERVICES FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $100k → 9%THE STANTON CHILD RESOURCE CENTER INC: $750k → 11%COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK: $389k → 15%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $975k → 17%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $105k → 11%THE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP: $110k → 16%THE BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN PEDRO OZANAM CENTER INC: $160k → 23%THE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP: $110k → 16%THE BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN PEDRO OZANAM CENTER INC: $144k → 23%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $100k → 11%THE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP: $100k → 16%UNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $250k → 17%THE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP: $100k → 16%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $100k → 11%THE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP: $100k → 16%UNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $102k → 17%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $100k → 11%MATTHEW 25: $185k → 9%VICKERY MEADOW LEARNING CENTER: $125k → 14%MATTHEW 25: $160k → 9%MATTHEW 25: $105k → 9%THE FAMILY PLACE: $400k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBOR SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $105k → 23%LOVE COLUMBIA CORP: $300k → 17%THE FAMILY PLACE: $150k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBOR SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $105k → 23%LOVE COLUMBIA CORP: $110k → 17%OPPORTUNITY CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS: $143k → 21%GOOD NEIGHBOR SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $100k → 23%LOVE COLUMBIA CORP: $100k → 17%THE FAMILY PLACE: $150k → 14%GOOD NEIGHBOR SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $100k → 23%LOVE COLUMBIA CORP: $100k → 17%VICKERY MEADOW LEARNING CENTER: $125k → 14%THE CONCILIO: $105k → 14%KIDS WIN MISSOURI: $110k → 11%KIDS WIN MISSOURI: $105k → 11%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $135k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $135k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $125k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $125k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $125k → 14%YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $107k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$49M · 137 repeat orgs$5.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

137 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2025, 73 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

137
34

Total granted

$49M
$3.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
0%

Still filing today

95%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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 ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther

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

  • IL
    Iowa Legal Aid
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +5%
  • FC
    FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS
    5× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +175%
  • YA
    YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $995k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue 0%
  • GG
    GATEWAY GLOBAL AMERICAN YOUTH & BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $460k · revenue 0% · 38% of their budget
  • EP
    EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER
    one grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue -20%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc

Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.

Community Improvement
2
United Way of North Central Iowa

Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…

Philanthropy
3
Common Good Iowa

Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.

—
4
West Central Community Action

In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.

Human Services
5
Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
6
Northeast Iowa Community Action Corp

Through dynamic partnerships, quality family services, advocacy and education, neicac advances community development and improves social and economic conditions for individuals and families with limited resources.

Human Services
7
Cornerhouse

The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.

Crime & Legal
8
Upper Des Moines Opportunity Inc

Upper des moines opportunity, inc. is dedicated to helping build stronger communities by addressing the effects of poverty on individuals and families.upper des moines opportunity, inc. will strengthen communities through: the promotion of…

Community Improvement
9
United Way of Clinton County Iowa

To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.

—
10
South Central Iowa Community Action Program Inc

To provide advocacy and services for disadvantaged persons and bring about institutional change for the benefit of the people we serve and the community at large. (see schedule o).to achieve this mission, scicap operates programs to…

Community Improvement
11
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
12
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waypoint Services and the most unlike its peers is Eat Greater Des Moines. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%22%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/190
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,375

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.

04the grantee network

187 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. 187 of the 196 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.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
184/187
Grantees still filing
114/187
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC — $995,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES …Love Columbia Corp Love Columbia — $937,748 · Human ServicesLove Columbia Corp Love Col…BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $910,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY S…THE BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN PEDRO OZANAM CENTER INC — $869,830 · Human ServicesTHE BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN PEDR…THE STANTON CHILD RESOURCE CENTER INC — $770,000 · Human ServicesTHE STANTON CHILD RESOURCE …VICKERY MEADOW LEARNING CENTER — $725,000 · Human ServicesVICKERY MEADOW LEARNING CEN…The Family Place — $700,000 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CO — $651,000 · Human ServicesTHE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP — $555,000 · Human ServicesTHE CONCILIO — $510,000 · Human ServicesMATTHEW 25 — $500,700 · Human ServicesNURSES FOR NEWBORNS — $500,000 · Human Services+31 more — $4,889,955 · Human Services+31 moreFOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS — $1,076,494 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INC — $1,020,000 · OtherPALACIOS COMMUNITY HUB — $852,407 · OtherAMERICAN YOUTHWORKS — $785,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CAMERON COUNTY — $702,500 · Other+82 more — $16,085,424 · Other+82 moreJourney Forward Mentoring — $972,823 · Youth DevelopmentJourney For…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $835,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRL…STL YOUTH JOBS — $740,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTL YOUTH J…KINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL — $605,000 · Youth DevelopmentKINGDOM HOU…IOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC — $543,607 · Youth DevelopmentIOWA JOBS F…Gentlemen of Vision Rites of Passage Enterprises — $394,220 · Youth DevelopmentGentlemen o…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS INC — $305,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITIES…BRIDGE LACROSSE DALLAS INC — $295,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRIDGE LACR…A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND — $260,000 · Youth DevelopmentGENESIS INC — $206,500 · Youth Development+5 more — $318,087 · Youth Development+5 moreELLIPSIS INC — $967,399 · HealthELLIPSIS I…CASA DE SALUD — $856,997 · HealthCASA DE SA…Provident Inc — $700,000 · HealthProvident …TANAGER PLACE — $620,000 · HealthTANAGER PL…DEXTER COMMUNITY REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $370,000 · HealthDEXTER COM…ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $310,000 · HealthST LOUIS C…Lower Rio Grande Valley Community Health Management — $295,000 · HealthLower Rio …IOWA CITY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC — $270,032 · Health+9 more — $738,522 · Health+9 moreREADY READERS — $604,000 · EducationREADY READ…LOGOS INC — $533,068 · EducationLOGOS INCWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $515,000 · EducationWASHINGTON…DRAKE UNIVERSITY — $502,306 · EducationDRAKE UNIV…GATEWAY GLOBAL AMERICAN YOUTH & BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC — $460,466 · EducationGATEWAY GL…DALLAS AFTERSCHOOL — $450,000 · EducationDALLAS AFT…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC — $444,500 · EducationCOMMUNITIE…MARATHON PUBLIC LIBRARY AND HISTORY MUSEUM — $415,000 · EducationMARATHON P…THE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION — $235,000 · EducationIOWA COUNCIL OF FOUNDATIONS — $227,346 · EducationFuture Net Incorporated — $203,761 · EducationTURN THE PAGE STL — $172,500 · Education+6 more — $283,787 · Education+6 moreSalesmanship Club of Dallas — $830,000 · Community ImprovementTexas Appleseed — $780,000 · Community ImprovementVALLEY INITIATIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND ADVANCEMENT — $625,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC — $488,605 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD SOLIDARITY FUND — $315,000 · Community ImprovementHEALTHTEAMWORKS — $265,000 · Community ImprovementLEADER VALLEY FOUNDATION — $150,000 · Community Improvement+3 more — $143,264 · Community ImprovementIowa Legal Aid — $1,391,335 · Crime & LegalTexas Legal Services Center INC — $501,530 · Crime & LegalTEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC — $369,712 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN AND FAMILY URBAN MINISTRIES D/B/A CHILDREN AND FAMILY URBAN MOVEMENT — $320,000 · Crime & LegalIOWA MIGRANT MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE — $290,000 · Crime & LegalLONE STAR JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $105,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$13,514,233Other$20,521,825Youth Development$5,475,237Health$5,127,950Education$5,046,734Community Improvement$3,596,869Crime & Legal$2,977,577

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIowa Legal Aid — $1,391,335 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetFOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS — $1,076,494 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INC — $1,020,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC — $995,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetJourney Forward Mentoring — $972,823 over 5y, 97% of budgetELLIPSIS INC — $967,399 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetLove Columbia Corp Love Columbia — $937,748 over 6y, 9.9% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $910,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN PEDRO OZANAM CENTER INC — $869,830 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetCASA DE SALUD — $856,997 over 6y, 18% of budgetPALACIOS COMMUNITY HUB — $852,407 over 6y, 55% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $835,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetSalesmanship Club of Dallas — $830,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN YOUTHWORKS — $785,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTexas Appleseed — $780,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetTHE STANTON CHILD RESOURCE CENTER INC — $770,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetSTL YOUTH JOBS — $740,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetVICKERY MEADOW LEARNING CENTER — $725,000 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CAMERON COUNTY — $702,500 over 6y, 16% of budgetThe Family Place — $700,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetProvident Inc — $700,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CO — $651,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetCATHOLIC COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL CONCERN INC CATHOLIC CHARITIES — $633,357 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetVALLEY INITIATIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND ADVANCEMENT — $625,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetTANAGER PLACE — $620,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTHE WYMAN CENTER — $615,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetSOUTHEAST MISSOURI FOOD BANK INC — $614,986 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetKINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL — $605,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetREADY READERS — $604,000 over 6y, 9.4% of budgetCommunity Food Bank — $568,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetIOWA FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION — $566,759 over 3y, 45% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP — $555,000 over 6y, 9.7% of budgetFAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INC — $547,779 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetIOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC — $543,607 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetLOGOS INC — $533,068 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF BROWNSVILLE DBA COME DREAM COME BUILD — $525,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $515,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MUSCATINE — $515,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE CONCILIO — $510,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY — $502,306 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Legal Services Center INC — $501,530 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMATTHEW 25 — $500,700 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetNURSES FOR NEWBORNS — $500,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC — $488,605 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetTHE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS — $485,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetGATEWAY GLOBAL AMERICAN YOUTH & BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC — $460,466 over 1y, 38% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN IOWA — $460,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetDALLAS AFTERSCHOOL — $450,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budget
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.

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way of Central…Commerce Bancshares F…Delta Dental of Iowa …Mid-Iowa Health Found…Prairie Meadows Race …Alliant Energy Founda…GreenState Credit Uni…Telligen Community In…Community Fdn of Grea…United Way of Greater…Greenstate FoundationLsb Foundation
United Way of Central IowaIA48.8× affinity22 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Hws Charitable Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    83report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Hws Charitable Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Hws Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 196 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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