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Minami Community Foundation at a glance

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Minami Community Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$170k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$72k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$364kPublic Benefit$130kCommunity Improvement$114kEnvironment$99kInternational$42kFood & Nutrition$35kRecreation & Sports$30kAnimals$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $124k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YWCA$72,300
HAWAII EDUCATION OF THE ARTS$51,200
JAMES B CASTLE HIGH SCHOOL$15,000
KEAHIAKAHOE CANOE CLUB$15,000
CASTLE ALUMNICOMM ASSOC$8,000
BOTTLES4COLLEGE$5,000
PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION$3,500
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 (FY18–24, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%KEY PROJECT: $50k → 9%KEY PROJECT: $35k → 9%PAEPAE O HE'EIA: $25k → 9%KEY PROJECT: $18k → 9%KEY PROJECT: $15k → 9%PAIPAE O HE'EIA: $10k → 9%KEY PROJECT: $8k → 9%KEY PROJECT: $275 → 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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$683k · 7 repeat orgs$332k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +165% since the first grant, against -31% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
15

Total granted

$683k
$180k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+165%
-31%

Still filing today

86%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementInternationalEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2024 · $192k · revenue +165%
  • KE
    KUALOA-HEEIA ECUMENICAL YOUTH PROJECT
    6× · 2018–2024 · $125k · revenue +10%
  • KO
    KAKOO OIWI
    4× · 2018–2024 · $114k · revenue +253%

Funded once

  • HU
    HUI ULU MEA AI
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • OO
    OHU OHU KOOLAU INC
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -31%
  • WD
    Windward Dog Park Hui
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
2
Na Mamo o Kawa

to rehabilitate, curate, and steward the natural and cultural resources of Kawa to honor the past, benefit the present, and preserve for the future generations of Ka'u, the Island of Hawaii and all humankind.

Environment
3
Hawaii Education Institute
—
4
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
5
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
6
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
—
7
Hiikua a Hiialo Cultural Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
Pohaku Pelemaka

Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance: the intrinsic qualities of the lower puna area, native hawaiian wellbeing, and the transmission of intergenerational knowledge and practices in partnership with county, state, government,…

Human Services
9
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
10
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
11
Ea Ecoversity

Ea ecoversity's mission is to provide culturally-driven learning, training, credentialing, and other long-term societal benefits to ka lahui hawai'i.

Education
12
Malama Kua Aina
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kai Loa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Windward Dog Park Hui. 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

13 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. 13 of the 27 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JAMES B CASTLE HIGH SCHOOL: $160,105 · OtherJAMES B CASTLE HIGH SCHOOLYWCA: $72,300 · OtherYWCAHUI ULU MEA AI: $50,000 · OtherHUI ULU MEA AIKEAHIAKAHOE CANOE CLUB: $15,000 · Other+11 more: $68,000 · Other+11 moreUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $192,250 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATIO…HAWAII EDUCATION OF THE ARTS INC: $51,200 · EducationHAWAII EDUCATION OF THE ARTS I…HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationKAI LOA INC: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $10,000 · EducationKUALOA-HEEIA ECUMENICAL YOUTH PROJECT: $125,400 · Human ServicesKUALOA-HEEIA ECUM…PAEPAE O HE'EIA: $35,000 · Human ServicesPAEPAE O HE'EIAKAKOO OIWI: $114,300 · Community ImprovementKAKOO OIWIPACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $45,500 · InternationalOHU OHU KOOLAU INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentWindward Dog Park Hui: $25,000 · Animals
Other$365,405Education$273,450Human Services$160,400Community Improvement$114,300International$45,500Environment$30,000Animals$25,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $192,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKUALOA-HEEIA ECUMENICAL YOUTH PROJECT: $125,400 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetKAKOO OIWI: $114,300 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetPACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $45,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPAEPAE O HE'EIA: $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetOHU OHU KOOLAU INC: $30,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKAI LOA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOTTLES4COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPURPLE MAIA FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KUALOA-HEEIA ECUMENICAL YOUTH PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds KAKOO OIWI ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII EDUCATION OF THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PAEPAE O HE'EIA ↗
  • Who funds OHU OHU KOOLAU INC ↗
  • Who funds Windward Dog Park Hui ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds KAI LOA INC ↗
  • Who funds BOTTLES4COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds KANEOHE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OHANA ↗
  • Who funds PURPLE MAIA FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Trustees of the Estat…Harold Kl Castle Foun…The Harry and Jeanett…Council for Native Ha…PatagoniaorgFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha SchoolsHI17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Harold Kl Castle Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement · Patagoniaorg · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Minami Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Minami Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    2report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Minami Community Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Minami Community 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 27 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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