· Private foundation
Marilyn and James Pappas Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of MARILYN AND JAMES PAPPAS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k10 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $700k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLOOD BANK OF HAWAII | $250,000 |
| BLOOD BANK OF HAWAII | $250,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $200,000 |
| HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY | $175,000 |
| HAWAII FOOD BANK | $125,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $100,000 |
| HALE KIPA | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $50,000 |
| PEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| THE FOOD BASKET | $25,000 |
| ANNE K TAYLOR FUND | $25,000 |
| MANTECA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $18,000 |
| FAMILIES FORWARD | $12,000 |
| SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER | $10,000 |
| THE SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $866k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% 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.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2022, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $532k 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
- CACHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE5× · 2017–2021 · $520k · revenue +50%
- HFHAWAII FOODBANK INC5× · 2017–2022 · $475k · revenue +100%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII5× · 2017–2021 · $370k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- AFAIO FOUNDATION - KAHAUIKI VILLAGEone grant, 2018 · $1.0M
- HFHONOLULU FOOD BANKone grant, 2021 · $500k
- HPHawai'i Pacific Healthgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +26%
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…
The mission of kapi'olani health foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.
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…
Hawai`i people`s fund supports, funds, and amplifies the work of hawai`i- based grassroots organizations challenging systems of oppression.
See schedule ophrei conducts health research and education that improves the health and well-being of veterans and all people in hawaii, central california, the pacific region, and throughout the u.s. driven by the values of excellence and…
The mission of pali momi foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.
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…
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
The mission of straub foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.
The mission of kuakini foundation is to improve the health status of the community by: providing comprehensive health care services and programs at reasonable cost; continuously improving the quality of health care services and programs;…
The mission of the corporation shall be to work with partners to protect and restore native ecosystems and watersheds, to improve the quality and quantity of freshwater resources to perpetuate hawaiian cultural resources and practices, to…
The mission of the healthcare association of hawaii is to be hawaii's most effective advocate for the comprehensive and financially strong healthcare system that successfully responds to the diverse and changing needs of all we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Hawaii Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hearts Landing Ranch. 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 32 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 73 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 CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds BLOOD BANK OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII ↗
- Who funds BISHOP MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HALE KIPA INC ↗
- Who funds Hawai'i Pacific Health ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE ↗
- Who funds ANNE K TAYLOR FUND ↗
- Who funds PEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FEEDING THE FOOTHILLS ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC FORUM INTERNATIONAL ↗
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: J Watumull Fund · Hawaii Loa Ohana · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · The Queen's Medical Center · Atherton Family Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Kosasa Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · Castiglione A Casauria Foundation · The Kenneth and Diane Matsuura 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 Marilyn and James Pappas Charitable 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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