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Padosi 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELBOW ROOM | $50,000 |
| UH FOUNDATION - ART DEPARTMENT STUDENT AID FUND | $25,000 |
| WOMEN CROSS DMZ | $10,000 |
| HAWAII CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $287k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 +31% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
149 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 145 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +98%
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH4× · 2018–2023 · $891k · revenue +35%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2020 · $621k · revenue +102%
Funded once
Feeding Americagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +40%
PORTLAND ART MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +5%- IPINDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTERone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -1%
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…
We are a public-private partnership that connects, convenes and catalyzes action across social, environmental and economic sectors to achieve hawaiis 2030 sustainability goals and the global sustainable development goals (sdgs).
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Protecting and promoting the marine biodiversity of Hawai'i through coral restoration, ecological monitoring, regenerative tourism, and cultural integration
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
To encourage increased investment in sustainable and community-based approaches to economic development hacbed advances its mission to address, social, economic, and environmental justice in hawaii through community based economic…
To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Hawai'i Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Two West Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
141 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 141 of the 201 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VISION HAWAII ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DOULA ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SEEDING JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds HAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds WAIKIKI HEALTH ↗
- Who funds HAWAII HEALTH & HARM REDUCTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE OF THE LAND ↗
- Who funds ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MADRE 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: Atherton Family Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Aloha United Way Inc · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · The Cades Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Queen's Medical Center · McInerny Foundation-- · Tradewind Group 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 Padosi Foundation 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.
- Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc — 82% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Stowe Land Trust — 10% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Seeding Justice — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% 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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