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Kaimas Foundation at a glance

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Kaimas 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.

$137k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$49k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$761kHousing & Shelter$255kAnimals$233kHealth$103kHuman Services$84kInternational$70kEnvironment$56kFood & Nutrition$22kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $124k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TUCSON WILDLIFE CENTER$49,000
Aloha Animal Oasis$35,000
Ho'ola Na Pua$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA$10,000
Gooter Foundation$10,000
PCDC$6,000
Santa Teresa Tile Works$5,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Reid Park Zoological Soci$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $375) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HALE KIPA: $375 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
CA
CO
MD
AZ
DC
HI
LA
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 13 repeat orgs$330k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
41

Total granted

$1.4M
$273k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+4%

Still filing today

69%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentEducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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

  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2018–2023 · $284k · revenue +125%
  • SJ
    Sister Jose Women's Center
    3× · 2017–2023 · $241k · revenue +469%
  • GF
    GOOTTER-JENSEN FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $62k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • BC
    Bird C&D
    one grant, 2017 · $35k
  • SH
    SEAHORSE HAWAII FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $31k
  • HM
    HILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +156%
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
Humane Society of Southern Arizona

To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.

Animals
2
Kauai Spca

To provide a safety net for Kauai's homeless pets that cannot be assisted through existing Island Rescue efforts.

Animals
3
Arizona Humane Society

We save the most vulnerable animals and enrich the lives of pets and people.

Animals
4
Hui Pono Holoholona

To promote responsible animal ownership and to decrease animal overpopulation humanely by providing no- or low-cost spay and neuter services and by operating a sanctuary for displaced feral and abandoned cats.

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5
Hawaii Homeless Healthcare Hui

To improve access to healthcare, hygiene care, social services, and to provide transitional and permanent housing to hawaii's homeless and underserved populations. provide walk-in medical clinic services in honolulu regardless of an…

Health
6
Tucson Audubon Society

Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.

Animals
7
Humane Society of Taos Inc dba Stray Hearts Animal Shelter

Stray Hearts is a socially conscious shelter and adoption facility reuniting lost pets with their families and providing humane care and shelter for surrendered, lost, and homeless companion animals in Taos County, New Mexico.Our pledge:…

Animals
8
Hui Aloha Kiholo

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Lanai Cat Sanctuary

The mission of lanai cat sanctuary is to assist cats on the hawaiian island of lanai by providing sustenance, foster homes, shelter, adoptions, veterinary care, spay/neuter services, and humane education.

Animals
10
Hawaii Nature Center Inc

By connecting children and families to nature, hnc builds community, creates meaningful change, and shapes a more sustainable future.

Environment
11
Honu Project

Wildlife and Habitat Conservation currently focusing on sea turtle conservation in Hawaii and throughout the world. Promoting the conservation of sea turtles and other wildlife and their habitats through educational activities and direct…

Unclassified
12
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

To improve the health and well-being of our community.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arizona Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Seahorse Hawaii Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 60 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/33
Grantees still filing
19/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $444,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUNDARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $284,000 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AM…+1 more: $2,500 · EducationIndividual grant recipient: $79,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $55,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONABird C&D: $35,000 · OtherBird C&DSaint Joses Women's Center: $17,500 · OtherArizona State University: $15,400 · OtherHILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $25,075 · OtherHILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUN…ISKASHITAA REFUGEE NETWORK: $22,000 · OtherISKASHITAA REFUGEE NETWO…WE CHARITY WILLIAM C MORAN & ASSOC PC: $20,000 · OtherWE CHARITY WILLIAM C MOR…+32 more: $100,276 · Other+32 moreSister Jose Women's Center: $240,760 · Housing & ShelterSister Jose Wom…Tucson Wildlife Center Inc: $106,150 · AnimalsTucson Wild…ALOHA ANIMAL OASIS CORP: $35,000 · AnimalsALOHA ANIMA…HAWAII ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA: $17,000 · AnimalsHAWAII ISLA…Friends of Pima Animal Care Center: $10,500 · AnimalsFriends of …LOVEPUP FOUNDATION: $10,000 · AnimalsLOVEPUP FOU…+1 more: $2,000 · AnimalsSEAHORSE HAWAII FOUNDATION: $30,600 · EnvironmentHAWAII WILDLIFE FUND: $16,000 · EnvironmentWatershed Management Group Inc: $13,628 · EnvironmentTHE KOHALA CENTER: $12,000 · EnvironmentGOOTTER-JENSEN FOUNDATION: $62,100 · HealthBEN'S BELLS INC: $2,301 · Health+1 more: $650 · HealthHO'OLA NA PUA: $48,500 · Human ServicesChidamoyo Christian Hospital: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $375 · Human Services
Education$730,500Other$369,251Housing & Shelter$240,760Animals$180,650Environment$72,228Health$65,051Human Services$58,875

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $444,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $284,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSister Jose Women's Center: $240,760 over 3y, 22% of budgetTucson Wildlife Center Inc: $106,150 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetGOOTTER-JENSEN FOUNDATION: $62,100 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA: $48,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetALOHA ANIMAL OASIS CORP: $35,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetHILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $25,075 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetISKASHITAA REFUGEE NETWORK: $22,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWE CHARITY WILLIAM C MORAN & ASSOC PC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA: $17,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHAWAII WILDLIFE FUND: $16,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetWatershed Management Group Inc: $13,628 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE KOHALA CENTER: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of Pima Animal Care Center: $10,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF TUCSON'S BIRTHPLACE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetChidamoyo Christian Hospital: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLOVEPUP FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN EDUCATION COMMISSION: $7,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE SERVICES HAWAII INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEN'S BELLS INC: $2,301 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOur Family Services Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hermitage No Kill Cat Shelter: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBAY CLINIC INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBISHOP MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EMERGE CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHALE KIPA INC: $375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArts for All Inc: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOR YOUTH: $300 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Jewish Community Foun…Deupree Family Founda…Arizona Community Fou…United Way of Tucson …The Intuit FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…Connie Hillman Family…The Hs Lopez Family F…The Harry and Jeanett…Union Pacific Foundat…Baird Foundation Inc
Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ27.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Deupree Family Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · The Intuit Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Union Pacific Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc

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 Kaimas Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kaimas Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 60 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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