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Atherton Family Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.3M
Granted FY2022
235
Grants FY2022
18
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$2.4MHealth$2.4MEducation$1.8MEnvironment$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.2MFood & Nutrition$909kHuman Services$764kYouth Development$741kOther$0
02FY2022 · 235 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 235 grants below total $4,233,314 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,282,535 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,049,221 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k75 grants · $335k
  • $10k–50k138 grants · $2.5M
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $1.4M
$11,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$83M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PUNAHOU SCHOOL$150,000
STRAUB FOUNDATION$100,000
WAHIAWA CENTER FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH$100,000
THE CHILDREN'S LAW PROJECT OF HAWAII$90,000
IHS, THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES, INC.$75,543
PROJECT VISION HAWAII$75,000
PARTNERS IN CARE$52,000
WAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$51,500
PROJECT HAWAII, INC.$50,000
BISHOP MUSEUM$50,000
PA'I FOUNDATION$50,000
HAWAII CONSERVATION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION$50,000
HONPA HONGWANJI HILO BETSUIN$50,000
WAIMANALO HEALTH CENTER OLA I KA WAI (WATER IS LIFE)$50,000
HONOLULU ACADEMY OF ARTS$50,000
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 (FY20–21, $746k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KUKULU KUMUHANA O ANAHOLA: $25k → 9%OPERATION HEALING FORCES: $5k → 12%LIFE'S BRIDGES HAWAII INC: $15k → 9%YWCA OF KAUAI: $10k → 9%EFFECTIVE PLANNING INNOVATIVE COMMUNICATION INC: $25k → 9%LA'AKEA VILLAGE: $15k → 9%KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 9%WESTSIDE ASSOC FOR YOUTH VOCATIONAL & ED SVCS: $10k → 9%HOOMANA INC: $5k → 9%HALE HALAWAI 'OHANA 'O HANALEI: $25k → 9%HOSPICE HAWAII: $10k → 9%NA HOALOHA MAUI INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $17k → 9%BIG ISLAND MEDIATION INC: $15k → 15%SMALL WORLD PRESCHOOL: $10k → 15%ARC OF MAUI COUNTY: $15k → 9%SMALL WORLD PRESCHOOL: $7k → 15%MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $7k → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $50k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $20k → 9%SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS HAWAII STATE CHAPTER: $20k → 9%ALOHA CLUB OF HILO: $25k → 15%ALOHA CLUB OF HILO: $25k → 15%HAWAII ISLAND ADULT CARE INC: $20k → 15%HAWAII COUNTY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $20k → 15%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $20k → 9%WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 9%HALE KIPA INC: $50k → 9%WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 9%HALE KIPA INC: $50k → 9%ALTERNATIVE STRUCTURES INTERNATIONAL: $39k → 9%CENTER FOR ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION: $3k → 9%HAWAII FAMILY FORUM: $1k → 9%DANYA'S GIFT INC: $8k → 9%KEIKI TO KUPUNA FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%HALE HAUOLI HAWAII: $20k → 9%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $20k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $10k → 9%SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER HAWAII: $5k → 9%HAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW & ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $25k → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $25k → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $10k → 9%THINKTECH HAWAII: $10k → 9%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

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
PA
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
DC
HI
AL
TX
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.7M · 160 repeat orgs$6.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

160 repeat relationships — 120 still active in FY2022, 40 since wound down; 109 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

160
283

Total granted

$7.7M
$4.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+38%

Still filing today

91%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
Arts & CultureHealthEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesYouth 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

  • WC
    WAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $269k · revenue +121%
  • PS
    PUNAHOU SCHOOL
    2× · 2020–2022 · $254k · revenue +40%
  • VISION TO LEARN
    2× · 2020–2021 · $250k · revenue +151%

Funded once

  • HF
    HAWAII FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $111k
  • PV
    POLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +247%
  • KA
    KUA AINA ULU AUAMOgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $91k · revenue +140%

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
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
2
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
3
Hawaii Education Institute
—
4
Papahana Kuaola

Papahana kuaola's mission is to create quality educational programs focused on environmental restoration and economic sustainability fully integrated with hawaiian knowledge in order to exemplify a lifestyle respectful of kanaka, `aina,…

Environment
5
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
6
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
—
7
Na Mamo o Kawa

to rehabilitate, curate, and steward the natural and cultural resources of Kawa to honor the past, benefit the present, and preserve for the future generations of Ka'u, the Island of Hawaii and all humankind.

Environment
8
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
9
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
10
Malama Kua Aina
Environment
11
Hui Malama I Ke Ala Ulili

To re-establish the systems that sustain our community through educational initiatives and land-based practices that cultivate abundance, regenerate responsibilities, and promote collective health and well being.

Community Improvement
12
Hawaii Maritime Center
—

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Education Incubator and the most unlike its peers is Liv Pregnancy and Women's Wellness. 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 backsteadyNative Hawaiian Cultural St…Member Recreation ClubsDisability & Senior Care Se…Hawaii School Support Found…Independent Schools HawaiiHawaii Healthcare ProvidersHawaii Performing Arts Orga…Behavioral Health & Addicti…Residential Community Assoc…Labor Union OrganizationsHawaii Community DevelopmentChristian Missionary Traini…Low-Income Housing Developm…Native Hawaiian Land Stewar…Union Benefit PlansHawaii Community FoundationsAnimal Rescue & WelfareUnion Employee Benefit Trus…Hawaii Food BanksYouth and Family Support Se…Professional Trade Associat…Hawaii Business & Cultural …Hawaii Healthcare Systems
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 28 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%1%<5yr15%11%5–10yr18%24%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr12%20%35–55yr12%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr15%6%5–10yr18%22%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr12%18%35–55yr12%26%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%5/460
the rest of the field
14%
1,070/7,639

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

423 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. 423 of the 557 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.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
150
Early backer (in before they grew)
411/423
Grantees still filing
320/423
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $145,000 · OtherWAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $268,500 · OtherWAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIO…IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC — $175,543 · Other+85 more — $3,724,191 · Other+85 moreVISION TO LEARN — $250,000 · HealthVISION TO LEARNStraub Foundation — $100,000 · HealthStraub Foundati…Kapi'olani Health Foundation — $100,000 · HealthKapi'olani Heal…QUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL — $100,000 · HealthQUEEN'S NORTH H…THE WAHIAWA CENTER FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH — $100,000 · HealthTHE WAHIAWA CEN…HAWAII PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE — $85,000 · HealthHAWAII PUBLIC H…MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN HAWAII — $85,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH A…PROJECT VISION HAWAII — $75,000 · HealthMOLOKAI OHANA HEALTH CARE INC — $64,700 · Health+14 more — $555,651 · Health+14 moreBISHOP MUSEUM — $153,000 · Arts & CultureBISHOP MUSEUMHAWAIIAN MISSION CHILDREN'S SOCIETY — $121,500 · Arts & CultureHAWAIIAN MISSI…HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART — $103,000 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU MUSEU…PAI FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Arts & CulturePAI FOUNDATIONPOLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETY — $100,000 · Arts & CulturePOLYNESIAN VOY…HAWAII THEATRE CENTER — $65,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII OPERA THEATRE — $57,000 · Arts & CultureAWAIAULU INC — $56,000 · Arts & CultureMANOA HERITAGE CENTER FKA MANOA VALLEY CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUND — $52,500 · Arts & CultureDAUGHTERS OF HAWAII — $51,000 · Arts & CultureALEXANDER & BALDWIN SUGAR MUSEUM — $51,000 · Arts & CultureMOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC FLEET SUBMARINE MEMORIAL ASSOC — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+16 more — $466,804 · Arts & Culture+16 moreHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $547,658 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMM…ALOHA UNITED WAY INC — $425,000 · PhilanthropyALOHA UNITE…HAWAII ISLAND UNITED WAY INC — $55,000 · PhilanthropyHANA HEALTH — $50,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $90,000 · Philanthropy+3 moreHAWAII CONSERVATION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION — $125,000 · EnvironmentHAWAII CON…THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE — $91,427 · EnvironmentTHE CORAL …KUA AINA ULU AUAMO — $91,300 · EnvironmentKUA AINA U…OAHU RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT — $75,000 · EnvironmentOAHU RESOU…MALAMA KAUAI — $75,000 · EnvironmentMALAMA KAU…HALEAKALA CONSERVANCY INC — $65,000 · EnvironmentHALEAKALA …HAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE — $62,000 · EnvironmentHAWAII INS…HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST — $55,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI — $50,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN — $50,000 · EnvironmentBIO BAMBOO INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EnvironmentMALAMA MAUNALUA — $40,000 · Environment+7 more — $192,333 · Environment+7 morePUNAHOU SCHOOL — $254,000 · EducationPUNAHOU SC…UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $128,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY…HAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $75,000 · EducationHAWAII PRE…HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY — $70,000 · EducationHAWAII PAC…CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU — $55,000 · EducationCHAMINADE …KCAA PRESCHOOLS OF HAWAII — $51,300 · EducationKUA O KANAUEUE — $50,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc — $50,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR NATIVE PACIFIC EDUCATION AND CULTURE — $40,000 · Education+9 more — $227,500 · Education+9 moreHALE KIPA INC — $120,000 · Human ServicesHO'OLA NA PUA — $100,000 · Human ServicesFEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER — $75,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF HALE 'OLUEA CLUBHOUSE — $70,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERS IN CARE- OAHU CONTINUUM OF CARE — $52,000 · Human ServicesHale Halawai Ohana O Hanalei — $50,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $45,000 · Human ServicesHAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE — $45,000 · Human ServicesALTERNATIVE STRUCTURES INTERNATIONAL — $39,000 · Human ServicesBIG ISLAND MEDIATION — $33,000 · Human ServicesKUKULU KUMUHANA O ANAHOLA — $25,000 · Human ServicesKAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY — $25,000 · Human ServicesWAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER — $25,000 · Human ServicesEFFECTIVE PLANNING & INNOVATIVE COMMUNICATION INC — $25,000 · Human Services+1 more — $20,000 · Human Services
Other$4,313,234Health$1,515,351Arts & Culture$1,476,804Philanthropy$1,167,658Environment$1,072,060Education$1,001,300Human Services$749,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $547,658 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetALOHA UNITED WAY INC — $425,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $268,500 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL — $254,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVISION TO LEARN — $250,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC — $175,543 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBISHOP MUSEUM — $153,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $145,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $128,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII CONSERVATION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetHAWAIIAN MISSION CHILDREN'S SOCIETY — $121,500 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetHALE KIPA INC — $120,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMAUI YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $120,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS LAW PROJECT OF HAWAII — $105,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART — $103,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF HAWAII — $100,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetPAI FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetStraub Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKapi'olani Health Foundation — $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPOLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETY — $100,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetQUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA — $100,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetDIAMOND HEAD THEATRE — $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE WAHIAWA CENTER FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE — $91,427 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetKUA AINA ULU AUAMO — $91,300 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE — $85,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN HAWAII — $85,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetMA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM — $85,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetHAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOAHU RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT — $75,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FUTURE — $75,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER — $75,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetMALAMA KAUAI — $75,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetPROJECT VISION HAWAII — $75,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY — $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF HALE 'OLUEA CLUBHOUSE — $70,000 over 3y, 51% of budgetHALEAKALA CONSERVANCY INC — $65,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetHAWAII ALLIANCE OF NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS — $65,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetHAWAII THEATRE CENTER — $65,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetPROJECT HAWAII INC — $65,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetMOLOKAI OHANA HEALTH CARE INC — $64,700 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE — $62,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetKUPU — $58,333 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHAWAII OPERA THEATRE — $57,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetAWAIAULU INC — $56,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST — $55,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU — $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

Cooke Foundation Limi…Bank of Hawaii Charit…Aloha United Way IncMcInerny Foundation--J Watumull FundFirst Hawaiian Bank F…Kosasa FoundationCentral Pacific Bank …Tradewind Group Found…Trustees of the Estat…Fred Baldwin Memorial…First Insurance Compa…
Cooke Foundation LimitedHI208× affinity110 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cooke Foundation Limited · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Aloha United Way Inc · McInerny Foundation-- · J Watumull Fund · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Kosasa Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable 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 Atherton Family Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx 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%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Foodcorps Inc — 21% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
69report 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

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 Atherton Family Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx?

Find your warmest path to Atherton Family Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx 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 557 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 2022, released 2022. 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 $5.6M 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 FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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