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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.

$5.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
107
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$5.8MHealth$2.9MArts & Culture$1.7MHuman Services$1.4MYouth Development$1.1MEnvironment$1.1MFood & Nutrition$590kEmployment$450kOther$0
02FY2025 · 107 grants

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
$35,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$139M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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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.

area typical 10%SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $100k → 16%HALE OPIO KAUAI INC: $35k → 9%HAWAII ISLAND ADULT CARE INC: $50k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $100k → 9%KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $15k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $100k → 9%HOSPICE OF HILO: $30k → 15%HAWAII ISLAND ADULT CARE INC: $20k → 15%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%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%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $75k → 9%SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $30k → 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: $35k → 9%COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCES: $30k → 9%WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 9%IBOUNCE UP: $5k → 9%HAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $50k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $35k → 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
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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 95 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

95
50

Total granted

$17M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+21%

Still filing today

82%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • 'S
    'IOLANI SCHOOL
    4× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +46%
  • CD
    Childrens Discovery Center
    4× · 2020–2025 · $605k · revenue +109%
  • KH
    Kapi'olani Health Foundation
    4× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +205%

Funded once

  • DH
    DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -20%
  • QN
    QUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +31%
  • HP
    HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO
    one 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.

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
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
2
Hawaii Education Institute
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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
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
5
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
6
Kula Aupuni Niihau a Kahelelani Aloha (Kanaka)

Preserve niihau cultural values and language.

Education
7
Hawaii Maritime Center
—
8
Kanu O Ka Aina Learning Ohana

Serving and perpetuating sustainable hawaiian communities through education with aloha.

Arts & Culture
9
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
10
Hui Aloha Kiholo

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Lai Hauola

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

Food & Nutrition
12
Hawaii Workers Center

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hanahauoli School; 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.
04the grantee network

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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
146/148
Grantees still filing
111/148
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STATE OF HAWAII DOE - WAIPAHU HIGH SCHOOL: $952,593 · OtherSTATE OF HAWAII DOE - WAIPAHU HIGH SCHOOLTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $900,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYTHE SALVATION ARMY - HAWAIIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDS DIVISION: $500,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY - HAWAIIAN & PACIFIC IS…AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS (AKA AMERICAN RED CROSS OF HAWAII): $275,000 · OtherWAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $349,839 · Other+71 more: $5,049,060 · Other+71 more'IOLANI SCHOOL: $1,221,000 · Education'IOLANI SCHOOLTeach for America Inc: $925,000 · EducationTeach for America IncPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $452,000 · EducationPUNAHOU SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $318,040 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUN…ISLAND PACIFIC ACADEMY INC: $230,000 · EducationKCAA PRESCHOOLS OF HAWAII: $205,000 · EducationASSETS SCHOOL: $190,000 · EducationISLAND SCHOOL: $180,000 · EducationPARKER SCHOOL: $170,000 · Education+13 more: $1,040,300 · Education+13 moreKapi'olani Health Foundation: $600,000 · HealthKapi'olani Health F…WAIKIKI HEALTH: $540,000 · HealthWAIKIKI HEALTHWAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH &: $500,001 · HealthWAIANAE DISTR COMPR…PARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER: $420,000 · HealthPARENTS AND CHILDRE…Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation: $400,000 · HealthRehabilitation Hosp…Straub Foundation: $375,000 · HealthStraub FoundationKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $200,000 · Health+14 more: $755,000 · Health+14 moreAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $450,000 · Human ServicesAFTER-SCHO…HO'OLA NA PUA: $300,000 · Human ServicesHO'OLA NA …CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $200,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC C…FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $175,000 · Human ServicesFEEDING HA…HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $120,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HA…Social Finance Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU: $70,000 · Human ServicesHAWAII ISLAND ADULT CARE INC: $70,000 · Human Services+14 more: $502,500 · Human Services+14 moreChildrens Discovery Center: $605,000 · Arts & CultureChildrens…HONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH: $130,000 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU …Honolulu Civil Beat Inc: $100,000 · Arts & CultureHonolulu …HANA ARTS INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureHANA ARTS…MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureMOANALUA …HAWAII OPERA THEATRE: $85,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FRIENDS OF THE PALACE THEATER: $85,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII THEATRE CENTER: $75,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $70,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $463,540 · Arts & Culture+14 moreHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $275,000 · Food & NutritionALOHA HARVEST: $100,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $75,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD BASKET INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionMA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentLAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentHamakua Youth Foundation Inc: $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTER FOR TOMORROW'S LEADERS: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentADULT FRIENDS FOR YOUTH: $50,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$8,026,492Education$4,931,340Health$3,790,001Human Services$1,987,500Arts & Culture$1,813,540Food & Nutrition$550,000Youth Development$530,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget'IOLANI SCHOOL: $1,221,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $925,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $900,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildrens Discovery Center: $605,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetKapi'olani Health Foundation: $600,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetWAIKIKI HEALTH: $540,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH &: $500,001 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $452,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $450,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetPARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER: $420,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation: $400,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetStraub Foundation: $375,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetWAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $349,839 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $318,040 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA: $300,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $275,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetISLAND PACIFIC ACADEMY INC: $230,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetST ANDREW'S SCHOOLS: $225,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetKCAA PRESCHOOLS OF HAWAII: $205,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetMA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM: $200,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII: $200,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $200,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHANAHAUOLI SCHOOL: $200,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSETS SCHOOL: $190,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetISLAND SCHOOL: $180,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $175,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetPARKER SCHOOL: $170,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHALEAKALA WALDORF SCHOOL: $150,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE: $150,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetDIAMOND HEAD THEATRE: $150,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMONTESSORI OF MAUI INC: $141,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMALAMALAMA WALDORF SCHOOL INC: $140,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE: $134,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH: $130,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetRE-USE HAWAII: $125,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetQUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLE JARDIN ACADEMY INC: $121,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHELPING HANDS HAWAII: $120,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU: $103,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHonolulu Civil Beat Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetALOHA HARVEST: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetH U G S FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES: $100,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetHANA ARTS INC: $100,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetMOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 13% 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 '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.

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

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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    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
    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.

    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 176 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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