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Marilyn and James Pappas Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2022
28
Grants FY2022
7
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Human Services$2.8MFood & Nutrition$1.1MHealth$690kPublic Safety & Disaster$669kPhilanthropy$480kArts & Culture$474kEducation$290kYouth Development$182kOther$0
02FY2022 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k10 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $700k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE FOOD BASKET$25,000
ANNE K TAYLOR FUND$25,000
PEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM$25,000
MANTECA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$18,000
FAMILIES FORWARD$12,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$10,000
SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 14%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%POWER PAWS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC: $1k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 14%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $6k → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%HEALTHNETWORK: $5k → 17%HEALTHNETWORK: $2k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $9k → 14%HALE KIPA: $50k → 9%HALE KIPA: $25k → 9%HALE KIPA: $25k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $100k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF HAWAII: $100k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $70k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $50k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $50k → 9%HOSPICE HAWAII: $5k → 9%HOSPICE HAWAII: $5k → 9%NAVIAN HAWAII: $5k → 9%HOSPICE HAWAII: $5k → 9%HOSPICE HAWAII: $1k → 9%HALE KIPA: $50k → 9%HALE KIPA: $25k → 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

NH
WA
MT
NY
OH
CA
MO
VA
AZ
TN
DC
HI
AL
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 37 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
29

Total granted

$4.2M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+26%

Still filing today

70%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $532k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHealthAnimalsInternationalOther
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

  • CA
    CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE
    5× · 2017–2021 · $520k · revenue +50%
  • HF
    HAWAII FOODBANK INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $475k · revenue +100%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII
    5× · 2017–2021 · $370k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • AF
    AIO FOUNDATION - KAHAUIKI VILLAGE
    one grant, 2018 · $1.0M
  • HF
    HONOLULU FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
  • HP
    Hawai'i Pacific Healthgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +26%
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
Kapi'olani Medical Specialists

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…

Health
2
Kapi'olani Health Foundation

The mission of kapi'olani health foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.

Health
3
Kaua'i Medical Clinic

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…

Health
4
The People's Fund

Hawai`i people`s fund supports, funds, and amplifies the work of hawai`i- based grassroots organizations challenging systems of oppression.

Human Services
5
Pacific Health Research & Education Institute

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…

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6
Pali Momi Foundation

The mission of pali momi foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.

Health
7
Hui Pohala

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…

Health
8
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

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

Human Services
9
Straub Foundation

The mission of straub foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.

Health
10
Kuakini Foundation

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;…

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11
Uhiwai O Haleakala

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…

Environment
12
Healthcare Association of Hawaii

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Hawaii Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 73 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
38/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AIO FOUNDATION - KAHAUIKI VILLAGE: $1,000,000 · OtherAIO FOUNDATION - KAHAUIKI VILLAGETHE SALVATION ARMY: $825,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $520,000 · OtherCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICEHONOLULU FOOD BANK: $500,000 · OtherHONOLULU FOOD BANKBLOOD BANK OF HAWAII: $500,000 · OtherBLOOD BANK OF HAWAIIAMERICAN RED CROSS: $330,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS+43 more: $600,750 · Other+43 moreCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $370,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARI…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $274,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…HALE KIPA INC: $175,000 · Human ServicesHALE KIPA INC+3 more: $47,000 · Human Services+3 moreHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $475,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII FO…FEEDING THE FOOTHILLS: $36,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING T…THE FOOD BASKET INC: $35,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD …JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $30,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $14,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $480,000 · PhilanthropyBISHOP MUSEUM: $305,000 · Arts & CulturePEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM: $37,000 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $35,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $12,500 · Arts & CultureHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $220,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationHawai'i Pacific Health: $100,000 · HealthRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation: $4,000 · Health+2 more: $4,000 · Health
Other$4,275,750Human Services$866,000Food & Nutrition$590,000Philanthropy$480,000Arts & Culture$389,500Education$270,000Health$108,000

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 budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $520,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBLOOD BANK OF HAWAII: $500,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $480,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $475,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $370,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBISHOP MUSEUM: $305,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $274,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $220,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHALE KIPA INC: $175,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHawai'i Pacific Health: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILIES FORWARD: $55,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetANNE K TAYLOR FUND: $40,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetPEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM: $37,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFEEDING THE FOOTHILLS: $36,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOOD BASKET INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHOSPICE HAWAII INC: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $14,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-ALOHA COUNCIL #104: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTS LANDING RANCH: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGRASSROOT INSTITUTE OF HAWAII INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIDA CINEMA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOWER PAWS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SWEET STUFF FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DESERT MOUNTAINS: $500 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

J Watumull FundHawaii Loa OhanaBank of Hawaii Charit…The Queen's Medical C…Atherton Family Found…The Harry and Jeanett…Kosasa FoundationFirst Hawaiian Bank F…First Insurance Compa…Tradewind Group Found…Castiglione A Casauri…The Kenneth and Diane…
J Watumull FundHI32.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Marilyn and James Pappas Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marilyn and James Pappas Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Marilyn and James Pappas Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 73 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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