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Garmar 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $315k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $730k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAUI FOODBANK | $125,000 |
| LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MAUI | $75,000 |
| HAWAII ST JUNIOR GOLF | $70,000 |
| FEED MY SHEEP | $60,000 |
| KAPIOLANI HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| IMUA FAMILY SERVICES | $50,000 |
| PROJECT VISION HAWAII | $50,000 |
| WILCOX MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| PIHANA KA IKENA | $50,000 |
| HAWAII CANINES FOR INDEPENDENCE | $50,000 |
| MAUI FARMS | $30,000 |
| ISLAND SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| HAWAII FOODBANK KAUAI | $30,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k 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
MAUI FOOD BANK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $435k · revenue +138%- KHKapi'olani Health Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $380k · revenue +205%
- FMFEED MY SHEEP INC6× · 2020–2025 · $280k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- HFHAWAII FOODBANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +28%
- HCHAWAII CANINES FOR INDEPENDENCE DBA GUIDE DOGS HAWAIIone grant, 2022 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $50k
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 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.
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 improve the health and well-being of our community.
Hoa aina o makaha (land of makaha shared in friendship) is more than a destination farm or nonprofit organization. the embrace of a sanctuary is felt by whoever enters the gates and a sense of belonging usually follows. once a barren piece…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Foodbank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lyman House Memorial Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 40 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 MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Kapi'olani Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds FEED MY SHEEP INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MAUI INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PET NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAUI FARM INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN HAWAII ↗
- Who funds MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MAUI YOUTH RODEO ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds HALEAKALA CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE KOHALA CENTER ↗
- Who funds IMUA FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds PIHANA KA IKENA ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VISION HAWAII ↗
- Who funds LYMAN HOUSE MEMORIAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Friends of Auwahi Forest Restoration Project ↗
- Who funds WOMEN HELPING WOMEN ↗
- Who funds HUI NO'EAU ↗
- Who funds Aloha Ilio Rescue ↗
- Who funds A CUP OF COLD WATER ↗
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: The Strong Foundation · Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · The Red Cabin Foundation Trust · Maui United Way · Na Hoaloha O Ka'Aina Ltd · Kosasa Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan 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 Garmar 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.
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