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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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k39 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FAIR VOTE | $6,000 |
| COLORADO YOUTH CORPS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| MALAMA HONUA PUB CH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| COLORADO CONSERVATION EDUCATION FD | $5,000 |
| HEARTLAND FUND | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR COMMON GROUND | $5,000 |
| COLORADO FISCAL INSTITUTE | $4,000 |
| THE BELL POLICY CENTER | $4,000 |
| ROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| COBALT ADVOCATES | $3,000 |
| CLIMATE EDUCATION FUND | $2,500 |
| COLORADO ALLIANCE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL | $2,500 |
| LITERACY INC | $1,800 |
| MAUI UNITED WAY | $1,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
To encourage increased investment in sustainable and community-based approaches to economic development hacbed advances its mission to address, social, economic, and environmental justice in hawaii through community based economic…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
To promote awareness of the humanities to the general public.
To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
Hawaii seafood council (hsc) supports responsible fisheries and sustainable seafood in hawaii for future generations through consumer education, outreach and research. hsc believes that marine fisheries, fishing and seafood are essential…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maui United Way and the most unlike its peers is Center for Common Ground. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAIRVOTE ↗
- Who funds Center for Common Ground ↗
- Who funds COLORADO YOUTH CORPS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE BELL POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLORADO FISCAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COBALT ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds OUR CLIMATE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds Civic Nation ↗
- Who funds Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ↗
- Who funds URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT ↗
- Who funds Nonprofit VOTE Inc ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK THE VOTE ↗
- Who funds HUI MALAMA O KE KAI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEAGULL SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Honolulu Civil Beat Inc ↗
- Who funds WAIMANALO HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENT HAWAII INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Atherton Family Foundation · New Venture Fund · California Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Aloha Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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