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The Lindsay and Carter Hawkins Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Lindsay and Carter Hawkins Foundation Inc

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.

$183k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$141kPhilanthropy$70kAnimals$52kHealth$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$7,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$100,000
CUBS CHARITIES$30,000
PAWS CHICAGO$25,000
SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY$10,000
ST NICHOLAS ANIMAL RESCUE DOMINICA$7,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SOUTHEASTERN BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION$5,000
THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE$1,000
ST JOAN ANTIDA HIGH SCHOOL$250
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PROJECT MAIN STREET: $1k → 17%ST NICHOLAS ANIMAL RESCUE DOMINICA: $7k → 15%ST JOAN ANTIDA HIGH SCHOOL: $250 → 17%SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY: $10k → 9%HARPETH HALL: $10k → 14%THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $1k → 14%SOUTHEASTERN BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%PAWS CHICAGO: $25k → 14%HARPETH HALL: $5k → 14%THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $1k → 14%WESTMINSTER SCHOOL: $10k → 13%PAWS CHICAGO: $18k → 14%LINCOLN PARK CO-OP NURSERY: $500 → 14%CUBS CHARITIES: $40k → 14%CUBS CHARITIES: $30k → 14%MARA MEYER SCHOOL: $20k → 14%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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$130k · 4 repeat orgs$155k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$130k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
-1%

Still filing today

50%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EducationHealthAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CC
    CUBS CHARITIES
    2× · 2023–2024 · $70k
  • PC
    PAWS CHICAGO
    2× · 2023–2024 · $43k · revenue +45%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k

Funded once

  • MM
    Mary Meyer School
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -1%
  • TW
    The Westminster Schools Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -3%
  • PM
    Project Main Street Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -75%
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
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
2
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
3
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
9
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
10
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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11
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
12
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacred Heart University Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Project Main Street 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

9 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. 9 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Vanderbilt University: $100,000 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityThe Westminster Schools Inc: $10,000 · EducationThe Westminster Schools IncSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $10,000 · EducationSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATEDCUBS CHARITIES: $70,000 · OtherCUBS CHARITIESMary Meyer School: $20,000 · OtherMary Meyer SchoolIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST NICHOLAS ANIMAL RESCUE DOMINICA: $7,000 · OtherST NICHOLAS ANIMAL RESCUE DOMINICA+2 more: $750 · OtherPAWS CHICAGO: $42,500 · AnimalsPAWS CHICAGOTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $2,000 · AnimalsSOUTHEASTERN BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,000 · HealthProject Main Street Inc: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Education$120,000Other$112,750Animals$44,500Health$6,000Philanthropy$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVanderbilt University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $42,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMary Meyer School: $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetThe Westminster Schools Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProject Main Street Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Lindsay and Carter Hawkins Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lindsay and Carter Hawkins Foundation Inc. 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 14 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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