· Private foundation
Davis Levin Livingston Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of Davis Levin Livingston Charitable Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $93k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Hawaii Foundation | $28,210 |
| The Mediation Center of the Pacific | $25,000 |
| Legal Aid Society of Hawaii | $10,000 |
| Hawaii Women's Legal Foundation | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Washington University School of Law | $10,000 |
| National Civil Justice Institute | $5,000 |
| Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii | $5,000 |
| Kukui Children's Foundation | $5,000 |
| Hawaii Friends of Restorative Justice | $2,500 |
| The Foundation of the Federal Bar Association | $1,750 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of your 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.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2024 · $88k · revenue +164%
- HSHAWAII STATE BAR FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $30k · revenue +60%
- VLVOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES HAWAII2× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- E'EPIC 'OHANA INCone grant, 2020 · $20k
- BHBALLET HAWAIIgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +29%
- TCTHE COLORADO COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +25%
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.
The hawai'i association of independent schools (hais) advocates on behalf of independent education in hawaii, provides services that strengthen individual schools and engages them to achieve educational quality and excellence for all…
Palliative care is a win-win-win-win. expanding access to palliative care benefits all parts of the healthcare system. people living with serious illness are better able to manage physical and emotional symptoms and have peace of mind that…
Hawaii medical association is dedicated to serving physicians, their patients and community through representation, advocacy, and public service. core activities: advocacy, education
The mission of straub foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.
The mission of pbs hawai'i is to advance learning and discovery by sharing stories that profoundly touch lives. we bring the world to hawai'i and hawai'i to the world.
Hawaii pacific university is an international learning community set in the rich cultural context of hawaii. students from around the world join us for an american education built on a liberal arts foundation. our innovative undergraduate…
To empower hawaiian communities by supporting programs that improve access to opportunities for success to the socio-economically disadvantaged.
To develop educated, well-rounded individuals who are well prepared for college.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii State Bar Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Creighton University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 23 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 THE MEDIATION CENTER OF THE PACIFIC INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII STATE BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII WOMEN'S LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES HAWAII ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CIVIL JUSTICE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds KUKUI CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALLET HAWAII ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC BUDDHIST ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Foundation of the Federal Bar Association ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FRIENDS OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds SEEQS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII CHILDREN'S ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE'S FUND ↗
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: Tradewind Group Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Aloha United Way Inc · J Watumull Fund · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Harold Kl Castle Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Hawaii Justice Foundation · The Cades Foundation · Padosi Foundation · McInerny Foundation-- · Kosasa 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 Davis Levin Livingston Charitable 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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