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A'Lani Kailani Blue Lotus White Star Fdtn C/O Andrea V Borden

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$100k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2025
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 5
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$8k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations A'Lani Kailani Blue Lotus White Star Fdtn C/O Andrea V Borden funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalHealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$100k100%
FY20235$67k40%
FY20224$44k100%
FY20211$4k100%
FY20201$11k100%
FY20195$92k100%
FY20182$37k50%
FY20172$26kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Science & Tech$100kInternational$81kArts & Culture$48kEnvironment$44kEducation$36kPhilanthropy$22kPublic Safety & Disaster$22kHealth$22kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
OR
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of A'Lani Kailani Blue Lotus White Star Fdtn C/O Andrea V Borden by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Explorers Club$100,00011%
Health in Harmony$44,44421%
Dream on International$36,666210%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$22,22220%
Fair Haven Community Health Clinic Inc$22,22210%
World Central Kitchen Inc$22,22220%
McCarter Theatre Company$15,15510%
International Rescue Committee INC$11,11110%
Women Make Movies Inc$11,1111n/a
Theatre for a New Audience Inc$11,11110%
Cinema Napa Valley$11,111129%
Rocky Hill Country Day School$11,1111n/a
Kulen Outreach Inc co Mactaggart & Co$11,11113%
Amigos Hospitalito Atitlan$11,1111n/a
Guilford Foundation$11,11111%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($29k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

A'Lani Kailani Blue Lotus White Star Fdtn C/O Andrea V Borden supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Explorers Club: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHealth in Harmony: $44,444 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetDream on International: $36,666 over 2y, 10% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $22,222 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFair Haven Community Health Clinic Inc: $22,222 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $22,222 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMcCarter Theatre Company: $15,155 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $11,111 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTheatre for a New Audience Inc: $11,111 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCinema Napa Valley: $11,111 over 1y, 29% of budgetKulen Outreach Inc co Mactaggart & Co: $11,111 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGuilford Foundation: $11,111 over 1y, 0.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About A'Lani Kailani Blue Lotus White Star Fdtn C/O Andrea V Borden

How much does A'Lani Kailani Blue Lotus White Star Fdtn C/O Andrea V Borden give?
A'Lani Kailani Blue Lotus White Star Fdtn C/O Andrea V Borden reported 1 grants totaling $100,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does A'Lani Kailani Blue Lotus White Star Fdtn C/O Andrea V Borden fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (26%), International (21%), Arts & Culture (13%).
Who are A'Lani Kailani Blue Lotus White Star Fdtn C/O Andrea V Borden's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Explorers Club ($100k), Health in Harmony ($44k), Dream on International ($37k).
Does A'Lani Kailani Blue Lotus White Star Fdtn C/O Andrea V Borden fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does A'Lani Kailani Blue Lotus White Star Fdtn C/O Andrea V Borden accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as A'Lani Kailani Blue Lotus White Star Fdtn C/O Andrea V Borden?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is A'Lani Kailani Blue Lotus White Star Fdtn C/O Andrea V Borden based?
A'Lani Kailani Blue Lotus White Star Fdtn C/O Andrea V Borden is based in CT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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