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Dolores F Martin Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$138k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
38%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$74,500
Organizations funded a year
7 to 22
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$3.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Dolores F Martin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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
FY2025still arriving8$138k38%
FY202413$175k38%
FY20237$146k14%
FY202216$244k25%
FY202115$241k33%
FY202022$248k32%
FY201920$280kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$627kArts & Culture$532kReligion$71kHealth$50kEnvironment$41kHousing & Shelter$25kCommunity Improvement$13kPublic Benefit$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Punahou School$531,50070%
University of Hawaii Foundation$85,17040%
Hui Hanai$72,532462%
Waiola Church$69,9106n/a
Bishop Museum$67,75040%
Shriners Hospitals for Children$40,00040%
Hawaii Council on Portuguese Heritage$35,0002n/a
Kuilei Cliffs$30,0003n/a
Awaiaulu Inc$25,00032%
Lunalilo Home$25,00020%
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All grantees of Dolores F Martin Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Punahou School$531,50070%
University of Hawaii Foundation$85,17040%
Hui Hanai$72,532462%
Waiola Church$69,9106n/a
Bishop Museum$67,75040%
Shriners Hospitals for Children$40,00040%
Hawaii Council on Portuguese Heritage$35,0002n/a
Kuilei Cliffs$30,0003n/a
Awaiaulu Inc$25,00032%
Lunalilo Home$25,00020%
Washington Place Foundation$21,000521%
Honolulu Museum of Art$20,00010%
Maui Film & Research Inc$20,0004n/a
The Lahaina Restoration Foundation$19,00041%
Daughters of Hawaii$12,50022%
Dtl Foundation$10,0001n/a
Moanalua Gardens Foundation Inc$10,00013%
Diamond Head Theatre$10,00010%
Friends of Shriners Hospitals - Honolulu Inc$10,000223%
Historic Hawai'I Foundation$6,00010%
Hula Preservation Society$5,00021%
St Andrew's Schools$5,0001n/a
The Center for Independent Documentary Inc$5,00010%
Hawaiian Civic Club of Honolulu$5,0001n/a
Hawaii Public Radio$3,00030%
Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation$3,00030%
Lokahi Pacific$2,50010%
Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts$2,25011%
Kauai Historical Society$2,00013%
The National Museum of Women in the Arts$1,00010%
Hawaiian Historical Society$1,00010%
Kaahumanu Church$1,0001n/a
Hawaiian Music Perpetuation Society$1,0001n/a
Kanehunamoku Voyaging Academy$1,00010%
The Garden Club of Honolulu$50010%
Kawaiahao Church$5001n/a
Portuguese Culture & Historical Center$2001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($313k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Dolores F Martin Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPunahou School: $531,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Hawaii Foundation: $85,170 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHui Hanai: $72,532 over 4y, 62% of budgetBishop Museum: $67,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAwaiaulu Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetLunalilo Home: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWashington Place Foundation: $21,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetHonolulu Museum of Art: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Lahaina Restoration Foundation: $19,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetDaughters of Hawaii: $12,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMoanalua Gardens Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetDiamond Head Theatre: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Shriners Hospitals - Honolulu Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetHistoric Hawai'I Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHula Preservation Society: $5,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Center for Independent Documentary Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHawaii Public Radio: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNative Hawaiian Legal Corporation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLokahi Pacific: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHawaii Academy of Recording Arts: $2,250 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKauai Historical Society: $2,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetThe National Museum of Women in the Arts: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHawaiian Historical Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKanehunamoku Voyaging Academy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Garden Club of Honolulu: $500 over 1y, 0.5% 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 26.

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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.

Christina Hassell & W…Atherton Family Found…Hawaii Council for Hu…The Strong FoundationCouncil for Native Ha…J Watumull FundTrustees of the Estat…Abigail K K Kawananak…The Queen's Medical C…Bank of Hawaii Charit…Zadoc W & Lawrence N …Castiglione A Casauri…
Christina Hassell & Watters O Martin Jr Family FoundationHI26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christina Hassell & Watters O Martin Jr Family Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · Hawaii Council for Humanities · The Strong Foundation · Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement · J Watumull Fund · Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Abigail K K Kawananakoa Foundation · The Queen's Medical Center · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Zadoc W & Lawrence N Brown Foundation · Castiglione A Casauria 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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Find your warmest path to Dolores F Martin 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 Dolores F Martin Foundation

How much does Dolores F Martin Foundation give?
Dolores F Martin Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $138,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 22 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Dolores F Martin Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Arts & Culture (36%), Religion (5%).
Who are Dolores F Martin Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Punahou School ($532k), University of Hawaii Foundation ($85k), Hui Hanai ($73k).
Does Dolores F Martin Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dolores F Martin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dolores F Martin Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christina Hassell & Watters O Martin Jr Family Foundation, Atherton Family Foundation, Hawaii Council for Humanities.
Where is Dolores F Martin Foundation based?
Dolores F Martin 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 46 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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