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HAWTHORN FOUNDATION INC

HAWTHORN FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,510,056 to it, the largest being THE 85 FUND ($2,300,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$965k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$3.5M
Net assets
$11M
4/8 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Hawthorn Foundation Inc does

Mission

The hawthorn foundation was established to provide resources to accelerate the launch of schools inspired by the teachings of st. Josemaria escriva in the united states.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The hawthorn foundation, inc. Provided operating funds to the hawthorn school, inc.

    $1,221,171 spentof which $1,063,591 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,221,171.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($87k) Expenses 100 ($87k) Net assets 0 ($0)2020 Revenue 1501 ($1.3M) Expenses 324 ($282k) Net assets 100 ($12M)2021 Revenue 3973 ($3.5M) Expenses 2118 ($1.8M) Net assets 132 ($16M)2022 Revenue 3275 ($2.9M) Expenses 3702 ($3.2M) Net assets 90 ($11M)2023 Revenue 362 ($316k) Expenses 1772 ($1.5M) Net assets 82 ($10M)2024 Revenue 1107 ($965k) Expenses 1833 ($1.6M) Net assets 88 ($11M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (1107)Expenses (1833)Net assets (88)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $21M to $11M (−47%).

$0
$13M
$21M
$11M
$10M
$11M
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

69% of HAWTHORN FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$0
’19
$1.0M
’20
$1.6M
’21
−$372k
’22
−$1.2M
’23
−$633k
’24
0.7
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

20202021202220232024
Listed35545
Joined·+2+0+0+1
No longer listed·0010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $0 → $821k.

5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of HAWTHORN FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

HAWTHORN FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HAWTHORN FOUNDATION INC.

66%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 75% · 2023 73% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

HAWTHORN FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.

NY
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $476k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HAWTHORN FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−66% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)62% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like HAWTHORN FOUNDATION INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 20%Fundraising 4%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

NY
CT

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • The Hawthorn School Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds HAWTHORN FOUNDATION INC?
HAWTHORN FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,510,056 to it, the largest being THE 85 FUND ($2,300,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HAWTHORN FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $3,510,056 in grants to HAWTHORN FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HAWTHORN FOUNDATION INC?
THE 85 FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HAWTHORN FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing