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THE HAWKINS FOUNDATION

THE HAWKINS FOUNDATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,040,269 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($610,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
$913k
3/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What The Hawkins Foundation does

Mission

The Hawkins Foundation is focused on the advancement and orthopaedic care and education by utilizing scientific and clinical orthopaedic research. Support education via orthopaedic sports medicine fellowships and various medical and public educational symposiums.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Programs that support its mission to advance orthopaedic care and education by utilizing scientific and clinical research. Support education via orthopaedic sports medicine fellowships and various medical and public educational symposiums.

    $607,471 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $607,471.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($651k)2018 Revenue 112 ($1.5M) Expenses 89 ($1.2M) Net assets 103 ($667k)2019 Revenue 104 ($1.4M) Expenses 96 ($1.3M) Net assets 110 ($719k)2020 Revenue 75 ($1.0M) Expenses 74 ($1.0M) Net assets 108 ($700k)2021 Revenue 86 ($1.1M) Expenses 78 ($1.1M) Net assets 117 ($765k)2022 Revenue 77 ($1.0M) Expenses 80 ($1.1M) Net assets 104 ($680k)2023 Revenue 64 ($843k) Expenses 59 ($819k) Net assets 108 ($704k)2024 Revenue 68 ($898k) Expenses 62 ($863k) Net assets 113 ($739k)2025 Revenue 84 ($1.1M) Expenses 68 ($938k) Net assets 140 ($913k)
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Revenue (84)Expenses (68)Net assets (140)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 2024 to 2025, from $767k to $932k (+22%).

$655k
$671k
$722k
$869k
$803k
$716k
$735k
$767k
$932k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 19% · 2024 18% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

23% of THE HAWKINS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$56k
’17
$252k
’18
$52k
’19
−$19k
’20
$64k
’21
−$84k
’22
$24k
’23
$35k
’24
$174k
’25
8.6
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.

Board chair

Richard J Hawkins Md

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed775655445
Joined·+0+0+1+0+1+0+0+1
No longer listed·02011100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $341k → $88k.

5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 HAWKINS 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

THE HAWKINS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 THE HAWKINS FOUNDATION.

59%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 51% · 2019 100% · 2020 86% · 2021 74% · 2022 86% · 2023 91% — 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

92% of THE HAWKINS 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 $79k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 2 states.

IL
SC

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

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’21
’22
’23
South Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $961k 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

THE HAWKINS FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve8.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like THE HAWKINS 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 South Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

65% of spending goes to programs.

Program 65%Management 30%Fundraising 5%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

SC

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • The Hawkins Society Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE HAWKINS FOUNDATION?
THE HAWKINS FOUNDATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,040,269 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($610,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE HAWKINS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,040,269 in grants to THE HAWKINS FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE HAWKINS FOUNDATION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $610,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE HAWKINS FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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