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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.

$641k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$501kPhilanthropy$447kHuman Services$407kArts & Culture$390kHealth$266kAnimals$204kFood & Nutrition$161kEmployment$115kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $305k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $265k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION MAUI COLLEGE$95,000
IMUA FAMILY SERVICES$60,000
PBS HAWAII$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
HOSPICE MAUI$15,000
FRIENDS OF MAUI WAENA INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL$15,000
MAUI FOOD BANK$15,000
MAUI POPS ORCHESTRA$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MAUI FAMILY YMCA: $25k → 9%MAUI FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 9%MAUI FAMILY YMCA: $3k → 9%MAUI FAMILY YMCA: $3k → 9%LA'AKEA VILLAGE: $10k → 9%LA'AKEA VILLAGE: $8k → 9%HOSPICE OF MAUI: $53k → 9%HOSPICE MAUI: $15k → 9%WOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $10k → 9%WOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $7k → 9%HOSPICE OF MAUI: $3k → 9%HOSPICE OF MAUI: $3k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 47 repeat orgs$162k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
13

Total granted

$2.5M
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+24%

Still filing today

68%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • MU
    MAUI UNITED WAY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $279k · revenue +250%
  • IF
    IMUA FAMILY SERVICES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $127k · revenue +14%
  • HP
    HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO
    5× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -2%
  • AH
    ALOHA HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +23%
  • LC
    LAHAINA COMPLEX EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -98%
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.

1
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
2
Malama Kua Aina
Environment
3
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
4
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
—
5
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
6
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
7
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
8
Hoa Aina O Makaha

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…

Unclassified
9
Hawaii Education Institute
—
10
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
11
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maui United Way; 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.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 69 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/49
Grantees still filing
38/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $120,000 · OtherHAWAII PUBLIC RADIOKa Lima O Maui Ltd: $115,000 · OtherKa Lima O Maui LtdUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION MAUI COLLEGE: $111,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION MAUI COLLEGESEABURY HALL: $104,910 · OtherSEABURY HALLSALVATION ARMY MAUI: $72,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMY MAUIPACIFIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $60,750 · OtherMALAMA NA MAKUA A KEIKI INC: $59,000 · OtherMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $60,000 · Other+30 more: $505,500 · Other+30 moreMAUI UNITED WAY: $278,500 · PhilanthropyMAUI UNITED WAYHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $70,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNIT…YAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · PhilanthropyYAMPA VALLEY CO…HO'OLA NA PUA: $110,000 · Human ServicesHO'OLA NA PUAHOSPICE MAUI INC: $74,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE MAUI …FEED MY SHEEP INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesFEED MY SHEEP…MAUI FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $36,000 · Human ServicesMAUI FAMILY Y…LA'AKEA VILLAGE: $17,700 · Human ServicesLA'AKEA VILLA…WOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $17,000 · Human ServicesHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII: $97,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII PUBL…MAUI RESCUE MISSION INC: $92,500 · Arts & CultureMAUI RESCUE…Maui Pops Orchestra Inc: $35,000 · Arts & CultureMaui Pops O…MAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS: $28,000 · Arts & CultureMAUI ACADEM…MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMAUI ARTS &…+2 more: $3,500 · Arts & CultureCARDEN ACADEMY OF MAUI: $110,000 · EducationCARDEN ACA…FRIENDS OF MAUI WAENA INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL: $45,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF…UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…MONTESSORI OF MAUI INC: $19,000 · EducationMONTESSORI…Maui Huliau Foundation: $17,000 · EducationMaui Hulia…BOOK TRUST: $16,000 · EducationBOOK TRUSTHAIKU SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $3,000 · EducationPACIFIC PRIMATE SANCTUARY INC: $110,500 · AnimalsASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII: $35,000 · AnimalsMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 · AnimalsPOI DOGS & POPOKI: $9,000 · Animals+1 more: $4,000 · AnimalsIMUA FAMILY SERVICES: $127,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · Health
Other$1,209,160Philanthropy$383,500Human Services$319,700Arts & Culture$281,000Education$245,000Animals$168,500Health$128,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAUI UNITED WAY: $278,500 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetIMUA FAMILY SERVICES: $127,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $120,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetKa Lima O Maui Ltd: $115,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetPACIFIC PRIMATE SANCTUARY INC: $110,500 over 6y, 34% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA: $110,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCARDEN ACADEMY OF MAUI: $110,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSEABURY HALL: $104,910 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII: $97,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMAUI RESCUE MISSION INC: $92,500 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetHOSPICE MAUI INC: $74,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY SHEEP INC: $65,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetPACIFIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $60,750 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMALAMA NA MAKUA A KEIKI INC: $59,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMAUI FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $36,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII: $35,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetYAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWHALE TRUST: $35,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMaui Pops Orchestra Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE YAMPA VALLEY: $30,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetMAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS: $28,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COUNCIL FOR HUMANITIES: $23,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMONTESSORI OF MAUI INC: $19,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLA'AKEA VILLAGE: $17,700 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $17,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMaui Huliau Foundation: $17,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetBOOK TRUST: $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALOHA HOUSE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAHAINA COMPLEX EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetMA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Childrens Justice Center: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGROW SOME GOOD: $6,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEAST MAUI ANIMAL REFUGE: $4,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMERWIN CONSERVANCY INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOKELANI OHANA: $3,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetAHA KUKUI O MOLOKAI: $2,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHUI NO'EAU: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetADAPTATIONS DANCE THEATER: $1,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • 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 ASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds YAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WHALE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Maui Pops Orchestra Inc ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Fred Baldwin Memorial…The Red Cabin Foundat…The Strong FoundationThe Makana Aloha Foun…Maui United WayAtherton Family Found…Cooke Foundation Limi…Bank of Hawaii Charit…The Roy H and Lorrain…Jeanne and Jim Riley …Rights Education Adop…Nuestro Futuro Inc
Fred Baldwin Memorial FoundationHI43× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Bendon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bendon Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Bendon Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bendon Family Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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