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Davis Levin Livingston Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$112k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$28,210
Organizations funded a year
3 to 8
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$980k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Davis Levin Livingston Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$112k45%
FY20236$23k50%
FY20228$29k75%
FY20213$61k33%
FY20206$47k83%
FY20193$59kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$167kEducation$112kArts & Culture$25kHuman Services$5kReligion$3kCivil Rights$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($17k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Davis Levin Livingston Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Mediation Center of the Pacific Inc: $92,500 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetUniversity of Hawaii Foundation: $88,210 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHawaii State Bar Foundation: $30,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetEffective Planning & Innovative Communication Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHawaii Women's Legal Foundation: $13,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetLegal Aid Society of Hawaii: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWashington University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVolunteer Legal Services Hawaii: $6,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNational Civil Justice Institute: $6,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetKukui Children's Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBallet Hawaii: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPacific Buddhist Academy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Colorado College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Justice Foundation: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Foundation of the Federal Bar Association: $3,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDomestic Violence Action Center: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHawaii Friends of Restorative Justice: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSeeqs Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHawaii Children's Action Network: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCreighton University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe People's Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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.

Tradewind Group FoundationHI19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Davis Levin Livingston Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Davis Levin Livingston Charitable 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.

About Davis Levin Livingston Charitable Foundation

How much does Davis Levin Livingston Charitable Foundation give?
Davis Levin Livingston Charitable Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $112,460 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Davis Levin Livingston Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (51%), Education (34%), Arts & Culture (8%).
Who are Davis Levin Livingston Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Mediation Center of the Pacific Inc ($93k), University of Hawaii Foundation ($88k), Hawaii State Bar Foundation ($30k).
Does Davis Levin Livingston Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Davis Levin Livingston Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Davis Levin Livingston Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tradewind Group Foundation, Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn, Aloha United Way Inc.
Where is Davis Levin Livingston Charitable Foundation based?
Davis Levin Livingston Charitable Foundation is based in HI.

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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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