California · Nonprofit
The Hawk Institute
The Hawk Institute (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,385 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION SOLUTIONS INC ($19,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $523k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $53k
- Net assets
- $71k
What The Hawk Institute does
Mission
To train a cadre of courageous leaders committed to their own personal success, and removing the barriers of inequality that have contributed to the systematic under education of African American young men.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Learning Communities - Weekly classes at three local high schools to prepare them for the world of work including resume writing, interviewing techniques, mock interviews, teamwork and public speaking.
$275,224 spentof which $3,621 as grants$343,983 earned by the program98% of program spendingBridge To The Future is a career awareness, financial capability and entrepreneurship preparatory program conducted by The Hawk Institute. This highly interactive program is designed to expose youth to different career options, provide the tools and resources to prepare them for those careers, enhance their financial capabilities, develop business skills and give them a competitive edge as they develop their business ideas and products. This program is truly next level training and development.
$6,750 spentof which $2,100 as grants$11,250 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $281,974.
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 2023 to 2024, from $101k to $46k (−54%).
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: 2020 72% · 2021 79% · 2022 81% · 2023 88% · 2024 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of The Hawk Institute’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $8k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 The Hawk Institute’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
The Hawk Institute leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 The Hawk Institute.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of The Hawk Institute's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
The Hawk Institute has grown faster than half of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like The Hawk Institute
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 The Hawk Institute: 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 The Hawk Institute?
- The Hawk Institute (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,385 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION SOLUTIONS INC ($19,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Hawk Institute have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $53,385 in grants to The Hawk Institute, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Hawk Institute?
- ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION SOLUTIONS INC is the largest funder on record, with $19,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Hawk Institute find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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