· Private foundation
Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $190k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| J WALTER CAMERON CENTER | $18,000 |
| MAKAWAO UNION CHURCH | $12,000 |
| HAWAIIAN MISSION CHILDREN'S SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY INC | $10,000 |
| MA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| MAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
| WHEN WE SHINE | $10,000 |
| HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| KELEA FOUNDATION | $8,963 |
| MALAMA NA MAKUA A KEIKI | $7,500 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII | $7,500 |
| UVSC | $6,500 |
| FRIENDS OF HAWAII TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY | $6,500 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $5,716 |
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 (FY20–25, $152k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 7% of Fred Baldwin Memorial 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. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in HI; read by stated purpose it is 89% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 16 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k 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
- JWJ WALTER CAMERON CENTER3× · 2022–2025 · $48k · revenue +55%
- HNHUI NO'EAU6× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +70%
- HIHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST4× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- HHHANA HEALTHone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +1%
- TLTHE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +483%
- LYLanai Youth Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +31%
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.
Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance the cultural and natural landscape of the kiholo bay area through collaborative management and active community stewardship.
To re-establish the systems that sustain our community through educational initiatives and land-based practices that cultivate abundance, regenerate responsibilities, and promote collective health and well being.
Papahana kuaola's mission is to create quality educational programs focused on environmental restoration and economic sustainability fully integrated with hawaiian knowledge in order to exemplify a lifestyle respectful of kanaka, `aina,…
to rehabilitate, curate, and steward the natural and cultural resources of Kawa to honor the past, benefit the present, and preserve for the future generations of Ka'u, the Island of Hawaii and all humankind.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kipahulu Ohana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Doorway Into Light. 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 26 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
117 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. 117 of the 128 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 HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER & BALDWIN SUGAR MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds J WALTER CAMERON CENTER ↗
- Who funds HUI NO'EAU ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds ARC OF MAUI COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds MALAMA NA MAKUA A KEIKI INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE MAUI INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds NA HOALOHA-MAUI INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN MISSION CHILDREN'S SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER ACADEMY PERFORMING COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MAUI YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HANA ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds IMUA FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ALOHA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VISION HAWAII ↗
- Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗
- Who funds LANAI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS IN ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HANA HEALTH ↗
- Who funds NISEI VETERANS MEMORIAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAKU BALDWIN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-ALOHA COUNCIL #104 ↗
- Who funds HAWAII NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOKAHI PACIFIC ↗
- Who funds REAL ONGOING OPPORTUNITIES TO SOAR INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds WHEN WE SHINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI ↗
- Who funds Lanai Youth Center 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 · Cooke Foundation Limited · Maui United Way · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Kosasa Foundation · J Watumull Fund · The Red Cabin Foundation Trust · McInerny Foundation-- · Bendon Family Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc
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 Fred Baldwin Memorial 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.
- Lines for Life — 70% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Lead Inc — 2% 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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