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Mmm Family Foundation at a glance

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Mmm Family 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.

$95k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

84% of Mmm Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Hawaii Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’17
1
’18
2
’19
3
’20
3
’21
2
’22
2
’23
2
’24
2
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$314kEducation$42kArts & Culture$27kFood & Nutrition$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kEnvironment$3kHuman Services$500Animals$150Other$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $15k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$80,000
IONA DANCE THEATRE$7,000
CSUN FOUNDATION$5,000
KEVIN KETCHNEFSKY FOUNDATION$2,000
KUILEI CLIFFS$1,000
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION$100
CHARITY NAVIGATOR$100
Individual grant recipient$100
NPR$100
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 10% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KEVIN KETCHNEFSKY FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%CSUN FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%IONA DANCE THEATRE: $7k → 9%KEVIN KETCHNEFSKY FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%CSUN FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%NOVA ARTS FOUNDATION DBA IONA CONTEMPORARY DANCE THEATRE: $5k → 9%KEVIN KETCHNEFSKY FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%CSUN FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%IONA DANCE THEATRE: $5k → 9%CSUN FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%IONA DANCE THEATRE: $5k → 9%CSUN FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%NOVA ARTS FOUNDATION DBA IONA CONTEMPORARY DANCE THEATRE: $5k → 9%CSUN FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%IONA DANCE THEATRE: $4k → 9%NOVA ARTS FOUNDATION DBA IONA CONTEMPORARY DANCE THEATRE: $3k → 9%HAWAII FOOD BANK: $6k → 9%HAWAII FOODBANK: $5k → 9%LIHOLIHO ELEMENTARY: $6k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 9%ALOHA HARVEST: $1k → 9%LARC: $500 → 9%ST JUDE: $100 → 9%WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION: $100 → 9%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 9%ST JUDE: $100 → 9%NPR: $100 → 9%THE HAWAII JAPANESE SCHOOL: $500 → 9%KUILEI CLIFFS: $1k → 9%THE HAWAII JAPANESE SCHOOL: $500 → 9%KUILEI CLIFFS: $1k → 9%THE HAWAII JAPANESE SCHOOL: $500 → 9%KUILEI CLIFFS: $1k → 9%HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $150 → 9%KUILEI CLIFFS: $1k → 9%HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100k → 9%HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $80k → 9%HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75k → 9%HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $70k → 9%HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $45k → 9%HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$101k · 8 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +107% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$101k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+107%
+46%

Still filing today

38%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +126%
  • HF
    HAWAII FOODBANK INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $11k · revenue +107%
  • TH
    THE HAWAII JAPANESE SCHOOL
    3× · 2019–2021 · $2k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +46%
  • AH
    ALOHA HARVESTgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +129%
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 18 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
7/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $390,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONIONA DANCE THEATRE: $20,500 · OtherIONA DANCE …NOVA ARTS FOUNDATION DBA IONA CONTEMPORARY DANCE THEATRE: $13,000 · OtherNOVA ARTS F…KEVIN KETCHNEFSKY FOUNDATION: $6,000 · OtherKEVIN KETCH…Individual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherIndividual …KUILEI CLIFFS: $4,000 · OtherKUILEI CLIF…+6 more: $2,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $45,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA…+1 more: $1,500 · EducationHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $11,000 · Food & NutritionALOHA HARVEST: $1,000 · Food & NutritionAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 · Human ServicesHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $150 · Animals
Philanthropy$390,000Other$51,500Education$46,500Food & Nutrition$12,000Human Services$2,000Animals$150

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $390,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAWAII JAPANESE SCHOOL: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALOHA HARVEST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $150 over 1y, 0.0% 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 HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds THE HAWAII JAPANESE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ALOHA HARVEST ↗
  • Who funds HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mmm Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mmm Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 18 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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