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Aroha Philanthropies

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.8M
Granted FY2018
82
Grants FY2018
27
States reached
$541k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0171% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2018.

Arts & Culture$3.7MEducation$809kHealth$395kHuman Services$351kYouth Development$61kEnvironment$22kInternational$19kCommunity Improvement$13kOther$2.2M
02FY2018 · 82 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k18 grants · $113k
  • $10k–50k46 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
$14,509
Median grant
27
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIFETIME ARTS$541,009
PROJECT SUCCESS$427,320
MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC$276,671
AMERICAN ALLIANCE OF MUSEUMS$261,580
TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TV$246,709
NATIONAL GUILD FOR COMMUNITY ARTS EDUCATION$140,633
TASKS UNLIMITED$104,170
MATEO LODGE$101,576
COWLES CENTER FOR DANCE & THE PERFORMING ARTS$85,662
VOCALESSENCE$80,533
PEOPLE INCORPORATED$70,892
GREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES$60,146
FILM NORTH$58,750
MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS$57,009
TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH$52,400
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $351k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ENGAGE: $150k → 14%YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $15k → 15%GRAFTON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL INC: $48k → 10%YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $9k → 15%GRAFTON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL INC: $25k → 10%TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH: $52k → 11%TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH: $52k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

AK
ME
NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
DC
LA
MS
AL
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.3M · 52 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.

52 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
7

Total granted

$6.3M
$532k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
-3%

Still filing today

75%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $787k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • LA
    LIFETIME ARTS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1.0M · revenue +24% · 48% of their budget
  • PS
    PROJECT SUCCESS
    2× · 2017–2018 · $687k · revenue +130%
  • CM
    COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $612k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • C
    CAMINARgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $153k · revenue +89%
  • EI
    ENGAGE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue -20%
  • TC
    THE COWLES CENTER FOR DANCE & PERFORMING ARTS
    one grant, 2017 · $82k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
2
Rochester Art Center

Rochester art center offers the opportunity for all people to understand and value the arts through innovative experiences with contemporary art. through world-class exhibitions and programs, we present a welcoming, integrated, and diverse…

Arts & Culture
3
Minnetonka Center for the Arts

In the belief that the visual arts are indispensable to a healthy community, it is the mission of the minnetonka center for the arts to provide teaching excellence, quality exhibitions, and cultural enrichment for people of all ages,…

Arts & Culture
4
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
5
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
6
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.

Arts & Culture
7
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
8
Guthrie Theater Foundation

The guthrie theater engages exceptional theater artists in the exploration of both classic and contemporary plays, connecting the community we serve to one another and to the world. through its extraordinary artists, staff and facility,…

Arts & Culture
9
Minnesota Fringe Festival

Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.

Arts & Culture
10
Theater Mu Incorporated

Theater mu produces great performances born of arts, equity, and justice from the heart of the asian american experience.

Arts & Culture
11
Gage Academy of Art

Gage educates, enriches, & transforms our community through the visual arts.

Arts & Culture
12
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Guild for Community Arts Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is Theatre 55. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts OrganizationsEducation Equity LeadershipPublic Library SupportFaith-Based Senior LivingProfessional Ballet Compani…Independent K-8 SchoolsLand Conservation Organizat…Ymca Community CentersSenior Support ServicesClassical Music Ensembles
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 46 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr11%34%35–55yr13%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr11%17%35–55yr13%34%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/72
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,906

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.

04the grantee network

69 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. 69 of the 89 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/69
Grantees still filing
47/69
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LIFETIME ARTS INC — $1,043,997 · Arts & CultureLIFETIME ARTS INCCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER — $611,987 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTERMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC — $497,994 · Arts & CultureMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSICAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS — $261,580 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS+38 more — $1,315,553 · Arts & Culture+38 moreTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TV — $495,856 · OtherTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TVTASKS UNLIMITED — $437,476 · OtherTASKS UNLIMITEDNATIONAL GUILD FOR COMMUNITY ARTS EDUCATION INC — $281,068 · OtherNATIONAL GUILD FOR COMMUNITY ARTS…PEOPLE INCORPORATED — $131,692 · OtherPEOPLE INCORPORATEDGREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES — $110,146 · OtherPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES — $102,500 · OtherLACMA — $89,216 · OtherTHE COWLES CENTER FOR DANCE & PERFORMING ARTS — $81,747 · OtherBRING ME A BOOK — $77,848 · Other+24 more — $406,438 · Other+24 morePROJECT SUCCESS — $686,538 · EducationPROJECT SUCC…JOHNSON CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY — $66,367 · EducationJOHNSON CITY…SCHOOL ONE — $28,795 · EducationTEXTILE CENTER OF MINNESOTA — $27,500 · EducationMATEO LODGE INC — $171,036 · HealthCAMINAR — $152,802 · HealthUMRC-PORTER HILLS FOUNDATION — $71,250 · HealthENGAGE INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesTOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH — $104,878 · Human ServicesGrafton County Senior Citizens Council Inc — $72,693 · Human ServicesYMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY — $23,509 · Human ServicesKeshet Dance Company — $60,750 · Youth DevelopmentGARFIELD PARK CONSERVATORY ALLIANCE — $12,500 · EnvironmentNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $9,390 · Environment
Arts & Culture$3,731,111Other$2,213,987Education$809,200Health$395,088Human Services$351,080Youth Development$60,750Environment$21,890

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLIFETIME ARTS INC — $1,043,997 over 2y, 48% of budgetPROJECT SUCCESS — $686,538 over 2y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER — $611,987 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC — $497,994 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetNATIONAL GUILD FOR COMMUNITY ARTS EDUCATION INC — $281,068 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS — $261,580 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMATEO LODGE INC — $171,036 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCAMINAR — $152,802 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetENGAGE INC — $150,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetPEOPLE INCORPORATED — $131,692 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFILMNORTH — $117,500 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $110,259 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES — $110,146 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetTOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH — $104,878 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES — $102,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Theatre Company and School — $95,121 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Cowles Center — $85,662 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTU DANCE — $82,500 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetVOCALESSENCE — $80,533 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetUMRC-PORTER HILLS FOUNDATION — $71,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJOHNSON CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY — $66,367 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetKeshet Dance Company — $60,750 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetThe Minnesota Opera — $55,975 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $52,664 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTALLER PUERTORRIQUENO INC — $52,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC — $52,250 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetTHE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE BOOK ART INC — $47,550 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWALKER ART CENTER — $47,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPACE ONE ELEVEN INC — $45,996 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetSILICON VALLEY CREATES — $39,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLUNDSTRUM CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA LUNDSTRUM PERFORMING ARTS — $35,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSCHOOL ONE — $28,795 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTEXTILE CENTER OF MINNESOTA — $27,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNORTHERN CLAY CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTAGEBRIDGE — $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetYMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY — $23,509 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARK SQUARE THEATRE — $22,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEAST SIDE ARTS COUNCIL — $20,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetWalker Methodist Foundation — $17,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetRUM RIVER ART INC — $17,500 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetNational Assembly of State Arts Agencies Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NEON MUSEUM — $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPEED ART MUSEUM — $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OLANA PARTNERSHIP — $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARFIELD PARK CONSERVATORY ALLIANCE — $12,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

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.

Target FoundationThe McKnight Foundati…The Minneapolis Found…William Boss Foundati…Mightycause Charitabl…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Andrew W Mellon F…Jerome Foundation IncHardenbergh FoundationFr Bigelow FoundationXcel Energy FoundationWenger Foundation
Target FoundationMN33.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Target Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · William Boss Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Jerome Foundation Inc · Hardenbergh Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Wenger 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 Aroha Philanthropies 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Aroha Philanthropies?

Find your warmest path to Aroha Philanthropies through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 89 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $4.1M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2018, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

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 camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines