· Private foundation
McInerny Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k62 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k43 grants · $3.9M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IOLANI SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA-HAWAII | $225,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF HAWAII | $200,000 |
| REHABILITATION HOSPITAL OF THE PACIFIC FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| STRAUB FOUNDATION | $175,000 |
| STATE OF HAWAII DOE - WAIPAHU HIGH SCHOOL | $170,000 |
| CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER | $155,000 |
| PARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER | $150,000 |
| WAIKIKI HEALTH | $150,000 |
| J WALTER CAMERON CENTER | $125,000 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $100,000 |
| HOOLA NA PUA | $100,000 |
| CHILD & FAMILY SERVICE | $100,000 |
| KAPIOLANI HEALTH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
95 repeat relationships: 73 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- 'S'IOLANI SCHOOL4× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +46%
- CDChildrens Discovery Center4× · 2020–2025 · $605k · revenue +109%
- KHKapi'olani Health Foundation4× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +205%
Funded once
- DHDIAMOND HEAD THEATREone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -20%
- QNQUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITALgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +31%
- HPHAWAII PUBLIC RADIOone grant, 2021 · $92k · revenue +8%
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.
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.
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…
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…
Preserve niihau cultural values and language.
Serving and perpetuating sustainable hawaiian communities through education with aloha.
Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance the cultural and natural landscape of the kiholo bay area through collaborative management and active community stewardship.
To preserve the immediate and long-term health and wellbeing of lahaina's diverse communities and precious natural resources.
The hawaii workers center envisions a hawaii in which all workers are empowered to exercise their right to organize for their social, economic and political well-being.
How this is measured
148 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. 148 of the 176 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 'IOLANI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Childrens Discovery Center ↗
- Who funds Kapi'olani Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds WAIKIKI HEALTH ↗
- Who funds WAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH & ↗
- Who funds PUNAHOU SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds PARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation ↗
- Who funds Straub Foundation ↗
- Who funds WAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HO'OLA NA PUA ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND PACIFIC ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds KCAA PRESCHOOLS OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds MA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSETS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ISLAND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds PARKER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HALEAKALA WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McInerny Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McInerny Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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