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Dolores F Martin Foundation at a glance

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Dolores F Martin Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$138k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $53k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Punahou School$74,500
Portuguese Genealogical Society$22,500
Shriners Hospitals for Children Honolulu$10,000
Kuilei Cliffs$10,000
DTL Foundation$10,000
Maui Film & Research Inc$5,000
The Reserved Joel Hulu Mahoe Resource Center$5,000
Hawaiian Music Perpetuation Society$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GRACE HUDSON MUSEUM: $5k → 18%Maui Film & Research Inc: $5k → 9%Punahou School: $87k → 9%MAUI FILM & RESEARCH INC: $5k → 9%University of Hawaii Foundation: $25k → 9%Maui Film & Research Inc: $5k → 9%PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $85k → 9%Maui Film & Research Inc: $5k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $21k → 9%PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $85k → 9%HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $20k → 9%Lahaina Restoration Foundation: $15k → 9%Punahou School: $75k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%Punahou School: $73k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $69k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%Punahou School: $52k → 9%AWAIAULU INC: $10k → 9%AWAIAULU: $10k → 9%PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $6k → 9%Portuguese Genealogical Society: $45k → 9%Portuguese Genealogical Society: $23k → 9%Portuguese Genealogical Society: $23k → 9%PORTUGUESE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: $20k → 9%BISHOP MUSEUM: $15k → 9%BISHOP MUSEUM: $15k → 9%Bishop Museum: $11k → 9%DAUGHTERS OF HAWAII: $10k → 9%MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%BISHOP MUSEUM: $10k → 9%HISTORIC HAWAII FOUNDATION: $6k → 9%BISHOP MUSEUM: $6k → 9%BISHOP MUSEUM: $6k → 9%ST ANDREW'S PRIORY: $5k → 9%BISHOP MUSEUM: $5k → 9%DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE: $10k → 9%Shriners Hospitals for Children Honolulu: $10k → 9%SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN HONOLULU: $10k → 9%Kuilei Cliffs: $10k → 9%Shriners Hospitals for Children Honolulu: $10k → 9%Kuilei Cliffs: $10k → 9%Shriners Hospitals for Children Honolulu: $10k → 9%Kuilei Cliffs: $10k → 9%LUNALILO HOME: $10k → 9%DTL Foundation: $10k → 9%Hawaii State Archives: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Dolores F Martin Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in HI; by stated purpose, 84%.

Dolores F Martin Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 22 repeat orgs$109k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
20

Total granted

$1.4M
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+18%

Still filing today

64%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalHealthEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PS
    PUNAHOU SCHOOL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $532k · revenue +33%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $85k · revenue +164%
  • BM
    BISHOP MUSEUM
    4× · 2019–2023 · $68k · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • HM
    HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -15%
  • MG
    MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +102%
  • DH
    DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -34%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
2
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
3
Hawaii Maritime Center
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4
Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Society Inc

In 1972, kumu hula george lanakilakekiahiali`i na`ope and kahu wendell silva created our organization to preserve hawaiian culture through dance. from that idea they formed the kalihi-palama culture & arts society, inc. (kpcas) to provide…

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5
Hiikua a Hiialo Cultural Foundation
Arts & Culture
6
Lanikuhonua Cultural Institute
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7
Hanalei River Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
9
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
10
Hawaii Education Institute
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11
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
12
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaiian Historical Society; the most unlike its peers is Lunalilo Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
21/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $531,500 · EducationPUNAHOU SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $85,170 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPortuguese Genealogical Society: $110,000 · OtherPortuguese Genealogical SocietyHUI HANAI: $72,532 · OtherHUI HANAIWAIOLA CHURCH: $69,910 · OtherWAIOLA CHURCHHAWAII COUNCIL ON PORTUGUESE HERITAGE: $35,000 · OtherHAWAII COUNCIL ON PORTUGUESE HERITAGEKUILEI CLIFFS: $30,000 · OtherLUNALILO HOME: $25,000 · Other+19 more: $121,500 · Other+19 moreBISHOP MUSEUM: $67,750 · Arts & CultureBISHOP MUSEUMAWAIAULU INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureAWAIAULU INCWASHINGTON PLACE FOUNDATION: $21,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON PLAC…HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $20,000 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU MUSEUM…THE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION: $19,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LAHAINA RES…DAUGHTERS OF HAWAII: $12,500 · Arts & CultureDAUGHTERS OF HA…MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $20,450 · Arts & Culture+7 moreSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $40,000 · HealthHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyNATIVE HAWAIIAN LEGAL CORPORATION: $3,000 · Crime & LegalLOKAHI PACIFIC: $2,500 · Community Improvement
Education$616,670Other$613,942Arts & Culture$195,700Health$40,000Philanthropy$5,000Crime & Legal$3,000Community Improvement$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds PUNAHOU SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HUI HANAI ↗
  • Who funds BISHOP MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds AWAIAULU INC ↗
  • Who funds LUNALILO HOME ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON PLACE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds THE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DAUGHTERS OF HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF SHRINERS HOSPITALS - HONOLULU INC ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HULA PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ST ANDREW'S SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE HAWAIIAN LEGAL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds LOKAHI PACIFIC ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII ACADEMY OF RECORDING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds KAUAI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds HAWAIIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dolores F Martin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dolores F Martin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Dolores F Martin Foundation?

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.

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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