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Pacific Islanders in Communications
The mission of PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS (pic) is to support, advance, and develop pacific island media content and talent that enhances public recognition of and appreciation for pacific islander history, culture and society.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $447,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $475,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $28,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $325k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC | $55,000 |
| ROCK SALT MEDIA INC | $55,000 |
| DOC SOCIETY INC | $40,000 |
| ESSENTIAL ISLANDERS LLC | $40,000 |
| NIU DOC LLC | $30,000 |
| FIRELIGHT MEDIA INC | $30,000 |
| WNET | $25,000 |
| ROOY MEDIA LLC | $25,000 |
| HAWAII WOMEN IN FILMING | $21,000 |
| WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG | $20,000 |
| A LITTLE STARTUP LLC | $17,000 |
| LEHUA FILMS LLC | $17,000 |
| SINA FILMS LLC | $15,000 |
| EAT THE FISH LLC | $15,000 |
| CENTER OF INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +90% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
LTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION2× · 2017–2018 · $92k · revenue +115%- TFTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC3× · 2021–2024 · $91k · revenue +117%
THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $85k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- EDEVERY DAY IN KAIMUKI LLCone grant, 2022 · $50k
- LPLATINO PUBLIC BROADCASTINGone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +25%
- KEKETCHUP ENTERTAINMENT LTDone grant, 2017 · $45k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc and the most unlike its peers is Popolo Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 69 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds LTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds MAKAUILA INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII WOMEN IN FILMMAKING ↗
- Who funds LATINO PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds DOC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
- Who funds Honolulu Civil Beat Inc ↗
- Who funds FIRELIGHT MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Center for Asian American Media · Wyncote Foundation · Corporation for Public Broadcasting · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Pacific Islanders in Communications 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.
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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