· Private foundation
Engaging the Senses Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $39k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $168k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KAUAI WRITERS INC | $88,079 |
| THE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $80,000 |
| THE GRABHORN INSTITUTE | $39,000 |
| ARTISTS AGAINST ANTISEMITISM | $2,500 |
| STORYTELLING ASSOCIATION OF CA | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- TGTHE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2024 · $265k · revenue +214%
- KWKauai Writers Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $176k · revenue +109%
- MAMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER3× · 2021–2023 · $58k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $95k
- HIHAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +17%
- FAFive Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles Countyone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +18%
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 mission of the aloha theatre is to enrich the lives of hawaii residents and visitors by providing quality live theatre, performing arts education, and a venue for artistic expression.
To create relevant and transformative experiences through the study, preservation, presentation and creation of art.
To be an inclusive platform for culture and the arts. through visual and performing arts and education, we give voice to our diverse communities and provide a forum for inquiry into their experiences and histories.
The hawai'i arts alliance unites the voices, values, and visions of hawai'i's diverse arts and culture communities - protecting artistic expression, championing cultural equity, and ensuring the arts remain a vibrant, essential part of…
Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate. www.artis.art
To develop and implement innovative programs that utilize the creative arts as vehicles to open young minds and hearts to life's possibilities.
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
ARTNOIR is a global collective and a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to celebrate and highlight the work of creatives of color from around the world while catalyzing cultural equity across the arts and culture industries.…
The museum of contemporary art (the museum) is a california nonprofit corporation established in 1979 as the only artist-founded museum in los angeles. the museum is dedicated to collecting and exhibiting contemporary art and houses one of…
Unlocking creativity through exceptional visual arts education and enhancing this endeavor through preservation of the historic kaluanui estate.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kauai Writers 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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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. 21 of the 33 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 GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Kauai Writers Inc ↗
- Who funds HAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRABHORN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NATIVE ARTS AND CULTURES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ART OF ELYSIUM ↗
- Who funds Five Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles County ↗
- Who funds POLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HAWAII THEATRE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOMEN HELPING WOMEN ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS AGAINST ANTISEMITISM ↗
- Who funds ARTS COLLABORATIVE OF NEVADA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MERWIN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN WORD INC ↗
- Who funds THE ESTRIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
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: Atherton Family Foundation · Hawaii Council for Humanities · J Watumull Fund · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 organization Engaging the Senses 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.
- Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
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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