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Botton 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VENICE FAMILY CLINIC | $150,000 |
| MAKAI FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| HAWAII FARMERS UNION | $100,000 |
| KCRW FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER | $100,000 |
| HUI NOEAU | $50,000 |
| MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC | $50,000 |
| IMUA FAMILY SERVICES | $50,000 |
| TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $30,000 |
| MAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HAIKU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA | $15,000 |
| ASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII | $15,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MAUI | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +15% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
VENICE FAMILY CLINIC7× · 2019–2025 · $850k · revenue +98%- KFKCRW FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2025 · $450k · revenue +15%
- MEMAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $300k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- HAHOUSING AND LAND ENTERPRISE OF MAUIone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -87%
- NTNORTH TAHOE FIREFIGHTERS' ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $60k
Feeding Americagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +40%
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.
Maui nui resiliency hui (mnrh) is committed to creating a more resilient and equitable future for maui county by focusing on affordable housing solutions that empower our community members. our mission is to collaborate, educate, and…
It is our mission at common ground collective to transform maui into a bountiful and productive island that benefits both the real-life settings, and hands-on assistance; we will help to elevate distressed and underprivileged members of…
Hawai`i people`s fund supports, funds, and amplifies the work of hawai`i- based grassroots organizations challenging systems of oppression.
To preserve the immediate and long-term health and wellbeing of lahaina's diverse communities and precious natural resources.
The mission of kuakini foundation is to improve the health status of the community by: providing comprehensive health care services and programs at reasonable cost; continuously improving the quality of health care services and programs;…
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
Our mission is to connect communities across maui nui to care for and restore healthy ecosystems on which hawai'i's people depend. we want to share and learn from our diverse experiences, lessons, and best practices to help member sites…
Hawaiian islands land trust dba hawai'i land trust (hilt) is hawai'i's statewide land trust that is both a hawai'i 501(c)3 nonprofit, and a nationally accredited land trust. hilt's mission is to protect and steward the lands that sustain…
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.
The mission of the organization (mhah) is to develop, own and manage multi-family rental communities serving families earning 20 to 80 percent of median income. mhah will assist its target families to become more self sufficient through…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Makai Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 37 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 VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds KCRW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MAKAI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MAUI INC ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE BAY ↗
- Who funds IMUA FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HUI NO'EAU ↗
- Who funds HOUSING AND LAND ENTERPRISE OF MAUI ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds PA'IA YOUTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MAUI UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds Leilani Farm Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE MAUI INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI NUI MARINE RESOURCE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MAUI INC ↗
- Who funds GROW SOME GOOD ↗
- Who funds ARC OF MAUI COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WOMEN HELPING WOMEN ↗
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: Maui United Way · Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · Bendon Family Foundation · The Red Cabin Foundation Trust · Savitt Family Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Yokouchi Foundation · Charles and Mitch Ota Foundation · Garmar Foundation · Jeanne and Jim Riley 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 Botton 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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