How much does Aloha Foundation give?

Aloha Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $10,579,591 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Aloha Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (25%), Education (24%), Housing & Shelter (14%).

Who are Aloha Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Amos House ($7.1M), Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc ($6.0M), School One ($5.9M).

Does Aloha Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Aloha Foundation 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 Aloha Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Rhode Island Inc, The Rhode Island Community Foundation, June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated.

Where is Aloha Foundation based?

Aloha Foundation is based in MA.

Aloha Foundation

Aloha Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Aloha Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$11M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$2.0M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$13MEducation$12MHousing & Shelter$7.1MCrime & Legal$6.0MYouth Development$5.0MFood & Nutrition$4.4MEnvironment$1.9MPhilanthropy$880kOther$0

02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k2 grants · $56k
$50k–250k7 grants · $800k
$250k+13 grants · $9.7M

$270,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL	$2,000,000
AMOS HOUSE	$1,270,000
JEFFERSON SCHOLAR FOUNDATION	$1,000,000
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY	$1,000,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SNE	$1,000,000
AMI KIDS	$1,000,000
NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL	$560,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA	$450,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY	$353,000
THE NATURE CONSERVACY OF UPS	$300,000
RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK	$270,000
BRADLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$270,000
JOHN HOPKINS	$250,000
RANDOLPH COLLEGE	$200,000
SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST	$200,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$48M · 24 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$48M

$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+82%

Still filing today

67%

78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $510k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

AH
AMOS HOUSE
6× · 2019–2024 · $7.1M · revenue +103%
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC
4× · 2019–2024 · $6.0M · revenue +10%
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
2× · 2023–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +13%

Funded once

MG
MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
one grant, 2019 · $1.0M
VH
VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $400k · revenue -52%
EV
EAGLE VALLEY MENTAL HEALTHgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $230k · revenue +141%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education

University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

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Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vail Health Services Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Montessori Global Growth Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

18/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$26,665,900Education$10,388,610Crime & Legal$6,000,000Philanthropy$3,366,000Food & Nutrition$2,342,500Health$2,043,262Community Improvement$678,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

United Way of Rhode Island IncRI17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · The Champlin Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Aloha Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aloha Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home