How much did BOTTON FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of BOTTON FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

food bank

2021

maui

2022

womenmaui

2023

fire reliefmaui

2024

museumartmaui

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$50k–250k10 grants · $710k

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$16M

Total assets

Largest grants

VENICE FAMILY CLINIC$150,000
KCRW FOUNDATION INC$100,000
MAKAI FOUNDATION$100,000
NORTH TAHOE FIREFIGHTERS' ASSOCIATION$60,000
MAUI FOOD BANK INC$50,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MAUI INC$50,000
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$50,000
MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC$50,000
HAWAII FARMERS UNION$50,000
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART$50,000
PAIA YOUTH COUNCIL INC$20,000

02The need

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 (FY22–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.5M · 13 repeat orgs$810k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.5M

$550k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%

+83%

Still filing today

92%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther

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 CLINIC
6× · 2019–2024 · $700k · revenue +98%
KF
KCRW FOUNDATION INC
5× · 2019–2024 · $350k · revenue +5%
ME
MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $250k · revenue +253%

Funded once

HL
HOUSING & LAND ENTERPRISE OF MAUI
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -55%
MA
MAUI ART & CULTURAL CENTER
one grant, 2023 · $75k
CP
COMMUNITY PARTNERSgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +278%

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.

Maui Economic Development Board Inc

To provide leadership and vision in our community for the responsible design and development of a strong sustainable, and diversified economy for maui county.

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Maui Nui Botanical Gardens Inc

Foster an appreciation and understanding of the living hawaiian islands emphasizing plants native to maui.

Environment

Maui Community Theatre

Provide affordable theater while keeping the historic iao theater accessible to all.

Arts & Culture

Hawaii Public Radio

To provide non-commercial, cultural and informational programming to the state of hawaii, the nation and international community.

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Hui Malama Ola Na Oiwi

Hui malama ola na 'oiwi is a community-based native hawaiian health care system whose mission is to improve the provision of comprehensive disease prevention, health promotion, and primary care services on hawaii island.

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Hui Hoolana

Create a self-sustaining facility that supports educational programs and native hawaiian reforestation projects.

Arts & Culture

Hawaii Pacific University

Hpu is an international learning community set in the rich cultural context of hawaii. our innovative programs prepare our graduates as active members of a global society.

Education

Kauai Economic Opportunity Incorporated

Its purpose is to act as the official community action agency for kauai county, state of hawaii, in order to fulfill the requirements of the economic opportunity act of 1964, as amended. program services include food services and…

Human Services

Maui Academy of Performing Arts

The organization's mission is enriching individuals, building community and connecting our world through the performing arts. in fulfilling its mission, the organization teaches classes for adults and children, and provides various…

Arts & Culture

Kuali'i Foundation

The kuali'i foundation's mission is to support the purposes and functions of manoa heritage center by owning, preserving and maintaining an historic property to benefit the public and promote an understanding of hawaii's cultural and…

Arts & Culture

Hawaiian Kamali'i Inc

To perpetuate and preserve the art of hawaiian canoe paddling by providing an environment rooted in traditional hawaiian values that promote personal growth, character development, and achievement in physical fitness.

Unclassified

Hawaiian Islands Land Trust

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…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Housing and Land Enterprise of Maui and the most unlike its peers is World Central Kitchen Inc. 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 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/24

the rest of the field

13%

6,775/50,950

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.

05the grantee network

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/24

Grantees still filing

21/24

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,635,000Health$770,000Human Services$270,000Food & Nutrition$270,000Environment$160,000Animals$125,000Housing & Shelter$100,000

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.

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.

Fred Baldwin Memorial FoundationHI18.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation · Savitt Family Foundation · Maui United Way · The Red Cabin Foundation Trust · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MAKAI FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~8 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 884166944 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MAKAI FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 31% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Botton Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Botton Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BOTTON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Botton Foundation?

More from the funding graph

BOTTON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Botton Foundation?

More from the funding graph