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McInerny 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.

$5.7M
Granted FY2022
94
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$5.8MHealth$2.9MArts & Culture$1.7MHuman Services$1.4MYouth Development$1.1MEnvironment$1.1MFood & Nutrition$590kEmployment$450kOther$0
02FY2022 · 94 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k48 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k40 grants · $3.4M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.0M
$40,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$127M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IOLANI SCHOOL$250,000
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$250,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF HAWAII$250,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA-HAWAII$250,000
STATE OF HAWAII DOE - WAIPAHU HIGH SCHOOL$224,683
AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII$200,000
REHABILITATION HOSPITAL OF THE PACIFIC FOUNDATION$200,000
WAIANAE COAST COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTER$166,667
KAPIOLANI HEALTH FOUNDATION$166,667
DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE$150,000
CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER$150,000
PARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER$135,000
WAIKIKI HEALTH$135,000
WAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION DBA MAO ORGANIC FARMS$125,000
HOOLA NA PUA$100,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HAWAII ISLAND ADULT CARE INC: $20k → 15%KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $15k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $100k → 9%HALE HALAWAI OHANA O HANALEI: $50k → 9%NA HOALOHA - MAUI INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $12k → 9%NA HOALOHA - MAUI INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $12k → 9%NA HOALOHA - MAUI INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $12k → 9%HAWAII STATE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $20k → 9%LANAKILA PACIFIC: $50k → 9%HOSPICE HAWAII INC: $25k → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $100k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $30k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $30k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $30k → 9%SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $200k → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $150k → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $100k → 9%WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 9%COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCES: $30k → 9%HAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $50k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $35k → 9%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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 71 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

71 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
49

Total granted

$12M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+21%

Still filing today

82%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentFood & 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

  • 'S
    'IOLANI SCHOOL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $875k · revenue +46%
  • WD
    WAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH &
    3× · 2020–2022 · $500k · revenue +41%
  • KH
    Kapi'olani Health Foundation
    3× · 2020–2022 · $500k · revenue +205%

Funded once

  • QN
    QUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +31%
  • FH
    FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +28%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -56%

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
Hawaii Education Institute
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2
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
3
Mohala Pua School Dba Honolulu Waldorf School

See schedule o.at honolulu waldorf school, we educate each child to find meaning, passion, and purpose in life and to contribute to the creation of a better world for all. through a curriculum based on the developmental stages of the human…

Education
4
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

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

Human Services
5
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
6
Papahana Kuaola

Papahana kuaola's mission is to create quality educational programs focused on environmental restoration and economic sustainability fully integrated with hawaiian knowledge in order to exemplify a lifestyle respectful of kanaka, `aina,…

Environment
7
Kanu O Ka Aina Learning Ohana

Serving and perpetuating sustainable hawaiian communities through education with aloha.

Arts & Culture
8
Kula Aupuni Niihau a Kahelelani Aloha (Kanaka)

Preserve niihau cultural values and language.

Education
9
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
10
Lai Hauola

To preserve the immediate and long-term health and wellbeing of lahaina's diverse communities and precious natural resources.

Food & Nutrition
11
Hawaii Maritime Center
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12
Hawaii Pacific University

Hawaii pacific university is an international learning community set in the rich cultural context of hawaii. students from around the world join us for an american education built on a liberal arts foundation. our innovative undergraduate…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hanahauoli School and the most unlike its peers is Friendship Club. 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 37 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr18%13%10–20yr18%30%20–35yr12%31%35–55yr13%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr12%34%35–55yr13%32%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/128
the rest of the field
13%
856/6,471

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

124 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. 124 of the 147 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
122/124
Grantees still filing
103/124
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STATE OF HAWAII DOE - WAIPAHU HIGH SCHOOL — $782,593 · OtherSTATE OF HAWAII DOE - WAIPAHU HIGH SCHOOLTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $700,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYTHE SALVATION ARMY - HAWAIIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDS DIVISION — $400,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY - HAWAIIAN & PACIFIC I…AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS (AKA AMERICAN RED CROSS OF HAWAII) — $200,000 · OtherWAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $349,839 · OtherWAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORPORAT…HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $200,000 · Other+56 more — $3,173,060 · Other+56 more'IOLANI SCHOOL — $875,000 · Education'IOLANI SCHOOLTeach for America Inc — $700,000 · EducationTeach for America IncPUNAHOU SCHOOL — $329,000 · EducationPUNAHOU SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $318,040 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUND…ISLAND SCHOOL — $180,000 · EducationKCAA PRESCHOOLS OF HAWAII — $170,000 · EducationISLAND PACIFIC ACADEMY INC — $170,000 · EducationASSETS SCHOOL — $140,000 · EducationPARKER SCHOOL — $135,000 · Education+13 more — $768,000 · Education+13 moreWAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH & — $500,001 · HealthWAIANAE DISTR COMPR…Kapi'olani Health Foundation — $500,000 · HealthKapi'olani Health F…WAIKIKI HEALTH — $390,000 · HealthWAIKIKI HEALTHPARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER — $270,000 · HealthPARENTS AND CHILDRE…Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation — $200,000 · HealthRehabilitation Hosp…Straub Foundation — $200,000 · HealthStraub FoundationKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES — $200,000 · HealthKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY…QUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL — $125,000 · Health+10 more — $320,000 · Health+10 moreAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII — $450,000 · Human ServicesAFTER-SCH…HO'OLA NA PUA — $200,000 · Human ServicesHO'OLA NA…FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER — $100,000 · Human ServicesFEEDING H…CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII — $100,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC …HELPING HANDS HAWAII — $90,000 · Human ServicesHELPING H…LANAKILA PACIFIC — $50,000 · Human ServicesHAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE — $50,000 · Human ServicesHale Halawai Ohana O Hanalei — $50,000 · Human Services+10 more — $260,500 · Human Services+10 moreChildrens Discovery Center — $450,000 · Arts & CultureChildrens…MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureMOANALUA …HONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH — $95,000 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU …THE FRIENDS OF THE PALACE THEATER — $85,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FRIEN…Honolulu Civil Beat Inc — $75,000 · Arts & CultureHonolulu …HANA ARTS INC — $70,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII OPERA THEATRE — $60,000 · Arts & CultureSTORYBOOK THEATRE OF HAWAII — $55,000 · Arts & CultureMANOA HERITAGE CENTER FKA MANOA VALLEY CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUND — $50,000 · Arts & CultureBISHOP MUSEUM — $50,000 · Arts & CultureHOOKUAAINA — $50,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII THEATRE CENTER — $50,000 · Arts & CultureALLIANCE FOR DRAMA EDUCATION — $47,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $100,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreHAWAII FOODBANK INC — $275,000 · Food & NutritionALOHA HARVEST — $100,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $50,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Food & NutritionMA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM — $160,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII — $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentLAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTER FOR TOMORROW'S LEADERS — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentHamakua Youth Foundation Inc — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentADULT FRIENDS FOR YOUTH — $25,000 · Youth Development
Other$5,805,492Education$3,785,040Health$2,705,001Human Services$1,350,500Arts & Culture$1,337,000Food & Nutrition$475,000Youth Development$440,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budget'IOLANI SCHOOL — $875,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $700,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $700,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH & — $500,001 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKapi'olani Health Foundation — $500,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetChildrens Discovery Center — $450,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII — $450,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetWAIKIKI HEALTH — $390,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $349,839 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL — $329,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $318,040 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC — $275,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER — $270,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA — $200,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation — $200,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetStraub Foundation — $200,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES — $200,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetISLAND SCHOOL — $180,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetKCAA PRESCHOOLS OF HAWAII — $170,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetISLAND PACIFIC ACADEMY INC — $170,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM — $160,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetDIAMOND HEAD THEATRE — $150,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetST ANDREW'S SCHOOLS — $150,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHANAHAUOLI SCHOOL — $140,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetASSETS SCHOOL — $140,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPARKER SCHOOL — $135,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetRE-USE HAWAII — $125,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetQUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL — $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHALEAKALA WALDORF SCHOOL — $110,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU — $103,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE — $100,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetFEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER — $100,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetMALAMALAMA WALDORF SCHOOL INC — $100,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetHAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII — $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMONTESSORI OF MAUI INC — $100,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetALOHA HARVEST — $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH — $95,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO — $92,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHELPING HANDS HAWAII — $90,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII — $90,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE — $89,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE PALACE THEATER — $85,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHonolulu Civil Beat Inc — $75,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPali Momi Foundation — $75,000 over 1y, 7.6% 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.

Atherton Family Found…J Watumull FundBank of Hawaii Charit…Aloha United Way IncKosasa FoundationFirst Hawaiian Bank F…Central Pacific Bank …Cooke Foundation Limi…George N Wilcox Gener…Tradewind Group Found…First Insurance Compa…The Harry and Jeanett…
Atherton Family FoundationHI152.9× affinity77 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atherton Family Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Aloha United Way Inc · Kosasa Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · George N Wilcox General Trust · Tradewind Group Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc

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 McInerny 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%6%25%56%100%your 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
    36report 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

    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 147 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $5.8M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

    Source object · view filing

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