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Mark & Debi Rolfing Charitable Foundation
Its FY2022 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: 69% of MARK & DEBI ROLFING 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROTARY D5000 FOUNDATION | $1,121 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| SACRED HEARTS SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| MALAMA PREGNANCY CENTER OF MAUI | $500 |
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 (FY19–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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 +159% since the first grant, against +138% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- MLMARIA LANAKILA4× · 2019–2022 · $6k
- RDROTARY D5000 FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2019–2021 · $3k
Funded once
- BABIGFORK ACESone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -12%
- KCKUMULANI CHAPELone grant, 2021 · $1k
- WMWEST MAUI IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +163%
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.
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
To provide high quality medical and social services that are affordable and accessible for everyone regardless of ability to pay.
Waimanalo health center is committed to providing the highest level of primary and preventive health services, with special attention to the needs of native hawaiians and the medically underserved, and improving the health and wellness of…
Pacific birth collective is a community-based organization rooted in respect, inclusivity and care. our mission is expanding birth and wellness choices through education, support and advocacy for families and practitioners across hawaii.…
To provide and promote accessible comprehensive individual and community health care to the people of molokai with respect and aloha.
To preserve the immediate and long-term health and wellbeing of lahaina's diverse communities and precious natural resources.
Family promise of hawai'i is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to transforming the lives of families with children in hawaii facing homelessness by providing housing, resources, and support.
Empowering youth and families challenged with behavioral health issues to become responsible, self-fulfilled and contributing members of the community.
To rescue quality food to nourish and strengthen our community.
To encourage increased investment in sustainable and community-based approaches to economic development hacbed advances its mission to address, social, economic, and environmental justice in hawaii through community based economic…
Providing comprehensive case management to families and individuals in need of becoming self sufficient. kealahou west oahu also provides shelter services to the unsheltered and sheltered population.
9caring for the people of waikiki through quality programs and services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Programs Hawaii and the most unlike its peers is Bigfork Aces. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 15 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 BRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BIGFORK ACES ↗
- Who funds WEST MAUI IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HALE MAHAOLU LAHAINA SURF INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds OSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY & WELLNESS MAUI ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROGRAMS HAWAII ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Mark & Debi Rolfing 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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