Funder Standing / The Hawks Foundation

The Hawks Foundation

NE · EIN 476194021 · 100M+ · data as of FY2024
Adds new grantees regularly

42 of 136 organizations The Hawks Foundation funded in FY2024 had not been funded in the prior 3 years.

Across all compared years the rate is 28.8%. Foundations of a similar size sit at 33.0%.

The numbers

New-grantee rate
28.8%
Pooled across compared years
Median grant
$40,000
Range $1,000 – $6,949,615
Repeat-dollar share
79.2%
Dollars to prior-year grantees
Accepts unsolicited
Yes
Inferred from the filing — see below
Match rate
92.9%
Grant lines resolved to an organization
Filing years used
5
Consecutive returns on file

Who they funded in FY2024

RecipientAmount
SCHWAB DONOR ADVISED FUNDnew$6,949,615
OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$6,050,000
CHILD SAVINGS INSTITUTE$4,018,980
COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOUNDATION$2,515,000
DOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT TRUST$2,000,000
MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ARTnew$1,500,000
UNIVERSITY OF NE FOUNDATION$1,211,939
OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE$1,070,000
JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORSnew$950,015
JOSIE HARPER HOSPICE HOUSE$400,000
NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA (FKA NET NE)$300,000
BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTERnew$222,845
DURHAM MUSEUM$200,000
HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE$200,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL PHYSICIANS ORGANIZATION$195,758
SANTA MONICA$150,000
IMMIGRANT LEGAL CENTER$124,985
COLLEGE OF ST MARY$120,000
LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE MASTER$108,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS$100,000
FAMILY HOUSING ADVISORY SERVICES$100,000
HOLY NAME HOUSING CORPORATION$100,000
JOSLYN ART MUSEUM$100,000
OMAHA SYMPHONY$100,000
ONE WORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$100,000

Showing the 25 largest of 136 grants.

How to read this

Every US private foundation files Form 990-PF, and Part XV of that return itemises each grant it paid, with the recipient's name. Lining those lists up across filing years shows which organizations were funded for the first time.

That does work the application checkbox cannot. Whether a foundation says it accepts unsolicited proposals is self-reported and never audited. The grant ledger is behaviour.

What this page does not tell you. Whether your work fits what The Hawks Foundation funds — no tax return contains that. Whether anyone on your board already knows a trustee, which is how a great deal of foundation money actually moves. Or anything that has changed since the last filing, which runs twelve to twenty-four months behind.
Source. IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV line 3a (grants paid during the year), tax years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Excludes. Grants approved for future payment, which the return lists separately
Computed. 2026-08-03 · Next recompute. 2026-11-01
Distribution. GivingTuesday Data Lake mirror of the IRS e-file corpus

If this is your foundation.

Every figure here comes from your own filings. If one looks wrong I would rather hear it than keep publishing it — write to me and I will show you the filings and the arithmetic behind it, and correct it if it is off.