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Makahakama 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.

$530k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.

Environment$848kCommunity Improvement$176kInternational$40kHuman Services$40kEducation$35kPhilanthropy$35kArts & Culture$28kYouth Development$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $106k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$19M
Total assets

Anchored by a single position — about 91% of reported assets are held in Bill Com Holdings.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lahaina Community Land Trust$300,000
The Nature Conservancy$60,000
The Acceleration Project$36,000
African Diaspora Network$20,000
Hawaiian Islands Land Trust$20,000
Peninsula Open Space Trust$10,000
Teach For America Bay Area$10,000
Ayudando Latinos a Sonar$10,000
Immigrant Legal Resource Center$5,000
LifeMoves$5,000
Climate Resilient Communities$5,000
The Trust for Hidden Villa$5,000
San Jose Jazz$5,000
Earth Island Institute$5,000
The Audacity Performing Arts Project Inc$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, 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.

area typical 7%Korean American Community Foundation of San Franci: $3k → 10%Korean American Community Foundation of San Franci: $3k → 10%Immigrant Legal Resource Center: $5k → 10%Ayudando Latinos a Sonar: $30k → 7%Immigrant Legal Resource Center: $5k → 10%Ayudando Latinos a Sonar: $10k → 7%Working Solutions CDFI: $10k → 10%Climate Resilient Communities: $5k → 8%Climate Resilient Communities: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$213k · 16 repeat orgs$636k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
10

Total granted

$213k
$268k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
-5%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $369k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

  • AA
    ALAS AYUDANDO LATINOS A SONAR
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +80%
  • PO
    PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +152%
  • CR
    Climate Resilient Communities
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +180%

Funded once

  • HC
    HAWAII COMMUNITY LENDINGgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +138%
  • VV
    VIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +94%
  • WS
    WORKING SOLUTIONS CDFI
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -32%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Santa Cruz Local Inc

Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.

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2
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
3
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
4
Silicon Valley Rising Action

Silicon Valley Rising Action takes on occupational segregation and income inequality with a comprehensive campaign to raise wages, create affordable housing, and build a tech economy that works for everyone.

—
5
Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - SV2

Silicon Valley Social Venture Funds (SV2) mission is to unleash the talents and resources of the Bay Area community to achieve meaningful social impact. SV2 works to build the organizational capacity of our Nonprofit Grantees and Impact…

Philanthropy
6
Asian Law Caucus

The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…

Crime & Legal
7
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
8
Active San Gabriel Valley

Active San Gabriel Valley (ActiveSGV) is a community-based environmental advocacy and public health non-profit organization. Our mission is to promote a more sustainable, equitable, and livable San Gabriel Valley.

Community Improvement
9
Los Altos Chamber of Commerce

To encourage and promote businesses and to stimulate a vibrant economy in los altos and los altos hills.

—
10
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
11
Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services
12
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pacific Community Ventures Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alas Ayudando Latinos a Sonar. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHawaiian Community Developm…Family Philanthropic Founda…Arts & Cultural Organizatio…Legal Services & AdvocacySocial Sector Infrastructur…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%9%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr12%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%25%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr17%17%20–35yr14%6%35–55yr12%31%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 25% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
12%
4,253/36,449

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.

04the grantee network

36 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
17/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $367,500 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+11 more — $73,000 · Other+11 moreLAHAINA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $300,000 · Housing & ShelterLAHAINA COMMUNITY LAND TRUS…VIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION — $100,000 · EnvironmentVIDA VERDE NATU…HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST — $20,000 · EnvironmentHAWAIIAN ISLAND…PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST — $15,000 · EnvironmentPENINSULA OPEN …ELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentELEMENTAL EXCEL…TRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST — $10,000 · EnvironmentTRUCKEE DONNER …+3 more — $15,000 · Environment+3 moreHAWAII COMMUNITY LENDING — $100,000 · Community ImprovementHAWAII COMMUNIT…THE ACCELERATION PROJECT INC — $36,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ACCELERATIO…LA COCINA — $10,000 · Community ImprovementLA COCINARenaissance Entrepreneurship Center — $10,000 · Community ImprovementRenaissance Ent…PACIFIC COMMUNITY VENTURES INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementPACIFIC COMMUNI…ALAS AYUDANDO LATINOS A SONAR — $40,000 · Human ServicesWORKING SOLUTIONS CDFI — $10,000 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER — $10,000 · Human ServicesClimate Resilient Communities — $10,000 · Human ServicesKOREAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $5,000 · Human ServicesAfrican Diaspora Network — $40,000 · InternationalTeach for America Inc — $20,000 · EducationRAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationSilicon Valley Urban Debate League — $5,000 · Education
Other$465,500Housing & Shelter$300,000Environment$170,000Community Improvement$166,000Human Services$75,000International$40,000Education$35,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $367,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAHAINA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $300,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY LENDING — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION — $100,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetAfrican Diaspora Network — $40,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetALAS AYUDANDO LATINOS A SONAR — $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ACCELERATION PROJECT INC — $36,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORKING SOLUTIONS CDFI — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetClimate Resilient Communities — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLA COCINA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRenaissance Entrepreneurship Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFEMOVES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUDACITY PERFORMING ARTS PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSan Jose Jazz — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC COMMUNITY VENTURES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPACENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKOREAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBig Sur Land Trust — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUST FOR HIDDEN VILLA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSilicon Valley Urban Debate League — $5,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetChopsticks Alley Art — $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSan Jose Taiko Group Inc — $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKITCHEN TABLE ADVISORS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLAAD INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…The David and Lucile …The San Francisco Fou…The Sobrato Family Fo…The Palo Alto Communi…Marin Community Found…Philanthropic Venture…Tides FoundationSand Hill FoundationAtkinson FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…East Bay Community Fo…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA33.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Marin Community Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Tides Foundation · Sand Hill Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · East Bay Community 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 Makahakama 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your 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
    15report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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