· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k15 grants · $495k
- $50k–250k64 grants · $5.8M
- $250k+12 grants · $4.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALESMANSHIP CLUB OF DALLAS | $620,000 |
| JOURNEY FORWARD MENTORING | $465,000 |
| THE BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN PEDRO OZANAM CENTER INC | $465,000 |
| AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS | $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 |
| PALACIOS COMMUNITY HUB | $250,000 |
| UNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $250,000 |
| VALLEY INITIATIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND ADVANCEMENT | $200,000 |
| PROJECT ARRIBA (ADVANCE RETRAINING AND REDEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE IN BOR | $200,000 |
| VICKERY MEADOW LEARNING CENTER | $190,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ILIowa Legal Aid4× · 2021–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +5%
- FCFOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS5× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +175%
- YAYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC2× · 2023–2024 · $995k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INCone grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue 0%
- GGGATEWAY GLOBAL AMERICAN YOUTH & BUSINESS ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2024 · $460k · revenue -84% · 38% of their budget
- EPEL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGERone grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue -20%
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.
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.
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
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…
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.
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.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
How this is measured
187 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hws Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hws Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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