Minnesota · Nonprofit
HOPKINS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
HOPKINS EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $476,485 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($98,371). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $422k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $476k
- Net assets
- $579k
What Hopkins Education Foundation does
Mission
To provide resources to enrich educational experiences within the hopkins school district.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hopkins Education Foundation kickstarts new learning opportunities for students of all ages at hopkins public schools. This year we awarded spark grants to teachers with new ideas for classroom learning. These include a coffee cart/bean team business model project for 4th graders and chinese immersion implementation support. The middle schools received grants for sustainability through personalized learning, sustainable 3d printing through recycling, and north middle school's yearbook refocus. The hopkins high school music program received grants for winter indoor percussion startup, jazz access to the greats, and to explore orchestra music by women & underrepresented composers. The high school was awarded grants for binoculars for outdoor instruction and exploration, nonfiction literacy: windows and mirrors to the world, new cutting boards for health code compliance for the culinary labs, and $10,000 to the royals test prep academy which offers act and sat test prep for students of any economic background. Hopkins transitions plus, a program to help students with disabilities transition to adulthood, was awarded a grant titled recreation for growth: promoting physical &social…
$269,182 spentof which $194,136 as grants100% of program spendingEach year Hopkins Education Foundation funds a district wide special project as a result of donations raised at the annual hef royal bash. This year hef is partnering with hopkins public schools to fund the 2024 outdoor opportunities special project. This creates the opportunity for all 5th and 8th graders to attend camp iduhapi's outdoor adventure day camp. Students at the high school will have the opportunity to attend a camping trip led and organized by a hhs staff member. Camping gear will be purchased for high school students for this trip and others in the future. All remaining funds raised will be awarded to other outdoor learning projects to promote the social, mental and emotional health gained through outdoor adventure and experiences.
The awesome fund is an special fund and endowment to support grants given to hopkins middle and high school student clubs. This year $550 was awarded to student clubs for projects called letters of love and friends & family pottery.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $269,182.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $467k to $596k (+28%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of HOPKINS EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Emily Wallace-Jackson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $16k → $56k.
10 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 HOPKINS EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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
HOPKINS EDUCATION FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
88% 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 HOPKINS EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 60% · 2019 36% · 2020 24% · 2021 38% · 2022 59% · 2023 36% — 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.
How long its funders stay
53% of HOPKINS EDUCATION FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
75% of HOPKINS EDUCATION FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $117k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $359k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
HOPKINS EDUCATION FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HOPKINS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOPKINS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOPKINS EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- HOPKINS EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $476,485 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($98,371). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOPKINS EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $476,485 in grants to HOPKINS EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPKINS EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $98,371 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPKINS EDUCATION FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 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