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Bendon Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $305k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $265k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION MAUI COLLEGE | $95,000 |
| PBS HAWAII | $60,000 |
| IMUA FAMILY SERVICES | $60,000 |
| HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO | $50,000 |
| ROOTS SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| MAUI FAMILY YMCA | $25,000 |
| WHALE TRUST | $20,000 |
| PACIFIC PRIMATE SANCTUARY INC | $20,000 |
| MAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS | $20,000 |
| MAUI RESCUE MISSION | $18,000 |
| MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF MAUI | $16,000 |
| MAUI FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| MAUI POPS ORCHESTRA | $15,000 |
| CARDEN ACADEMY OF MAUI | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MAUI WAENA INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MUMAUI UNITED WAY3× · 2020–2022 · $279k · revenue +250%
- IFIMUA FAMILY SERVICES6× · 2020–2025 · $127k · revenue +14%
- HPHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO5× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -2%
- AHALOHA HOUSE INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +23%
- MHMAUI HUMANE SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +79%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
Hoa aina o makaha (land of makaha shared in friendship) is more than a destination farm or nonprofit organization. the embrace of a sanctuary is felt by whoever enters the gates and a sense of belonging usually follows. once a barren piece…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maui United Way and the most unlike its peers is Haiku School Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 69 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 MAUI UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds IMUA FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds Ka Lima O Maui Ltd ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC PRIMATE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds HO'OLA NA PUA ↗
- Who funds CARDEN ACADEMY OF MAUI ↗
- Who funds SEABURY HALL ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds MAUI RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE MAUI INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEED MY SHEEP INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MALAMA NA MAKUA A KEIKI INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MAUI WAENA INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MAUI FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Maui Pops Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds YAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHALE TRUST ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE YAMPA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COUNCIL FOR HUMANITIES ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI OF MAUI 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: Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation · The Red Cabin Foundation Trust · The Strong Foundation · The Makana Aloha Foundation · Maui United Way · Atherton Family Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · The Roy H and Lorraine M Okumura Foundation · Jeanne and Jim Riley Foundation · Rights Education Adoption & Protection for Animal Welfare · Nuestro Futuro Inc
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 Bendon Family 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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