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Fontel Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAVIAN | $5,000 |
| HAWAII HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| NJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $5,000 |
| UNITY CHURCH OF HAWAII | $5,000 |
| STRAUB FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS | $5,000 |
| UNICEF | $5,000 |
| AARP | $3,000 |
| HOPESTART | $3,000 |
| HAWAII FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,000 |
| SACRED HEARTS ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| ACLU | $2,000 |
| HABILITAT | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Fontel Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- HHHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +66%
- HFHAWAII FOODBANK INC5× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +12%
- ITIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC4× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA MONROEone grant, 2024 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- SHSACTRED HEARTS ACADAMEYone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Kapi'olani medical specialists (dba hawai'i pacific health medical group) is a multispecialty provider group dedicated to providing world-class care for adults and children across hawai'i and the pacific region working in partnership with…
Hawaii medical association is dedicated to serving physicians, their patients and community through representation, advocacy, and public service. core activities: advocacy, education
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…
Kaua'i medical clinic, an affliate of hawai'i pacific health, is a multi-specialty clinic dedicated to providing world-class care for adults and children across hawai'i and the pacific region in partnership with kapi'olani medical center…
To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.
The mission of kapi'olani health foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.
The mission of hale makua health is to improve the well-being of those in our care through compassionate personalized health services in our home and yours.
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Hawaii Inc and the most unlike its peers is Coral Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 48 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 HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Straub Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE MEDIATION CENTER OF THE PACIFIC INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY HALE KEIKI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AARP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds HULA PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HOPESTART INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds HABILITAT INC ↗
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 · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Aloha United Way Inc · McInerny Foundation-- · Tradewind Group Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Castiglione A Casauria Foundation · The Cades Foundation · Kosasa Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn
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 Fontel 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.