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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.

$86k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$4.4MCivil Rights$3.8MInternational$3.4MEnvironment$1.9MFood & Nutrition$710kEducation$556kPhilanthropy$521kCrime & Legal$444kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$529k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ROSENBURG FUND FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 12%ROSENBURG FUND FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 12%WOMEN'S FUND OF HAWAII: $30k → 9%WOMEN'S FUND OF HAWAII: $14k → 9%HAWAII PEOPLES FUND: $15k → 9%HAWAII PEOPLES FUND: $10k → 9%HAWAII PEOPLES FUND: $10k → 9%WOMEN'S FUND OF HAWAII: $7k → 9%WOMEN'S FUND OF HAWAII: $7k → 9%WOMEN'S FUND OF HAWAII: $5k → 9%HAWAII PEOPLES FUND: $2k → 9%HAWAII PEOPLES FUND: $1k → 9%KOKUA MAU: $3k → 9%KOKUA MAU: $3k → 9%EGLOBAL FAMILY: $1k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $3k → 9%SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 9%SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 9%SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 9%HAWAII APPLESEED CENTER: $55k → 9%HAWAII APPLESEED CENTER: $30k → 9%HAWAII APPLESEED CENTER: $30k → 9%HAWAII APPLESEED CENTER: $30k → 9%HAWAII APPLESEED CENTER: $30k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
VT
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
TN
DC
HI
AL
GA
TX
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 149 repeat orgs$877k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

149 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 145 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

149
48

Total granted

$15M
$877k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
-1%

Still filing today

72%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’23’24’25
InternationalEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +98%
  • NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH
    4× · 2018–2023 · $891k · revenue +35%
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $621k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • Feeding Americagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +40%
  • PORTLAND ART MUSEUM
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +5%
  • AO
    ACLU OF OREGON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
2
Rainforest Foundation Inc

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.

Environment
3
Namati Inc

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.…

Crime & Legal
4
Hawaii LOCAL2030 Hub

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).

Community Improvement
5
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
6
Ocean Alliance Project

Protecting and promoting the marine biodiversity of Hawai'i through coral restoration, ecological monitoring, regenerative tourism, and cultural integration

Science & Tech
7
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
8
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
9
World Resources Institute

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…

International
10
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
11
Hawaii Alliance for Community-Based Economic Development

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…

Unclassified
12
For the Fishes

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…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Hawai'i Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

141 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
138/141
Grantees still filing
95/141
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE: $1,400,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEEIndividual grant recipient: $1,080,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $805,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYPLANNED PARENTHOOD HAWAII: $650,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD HAWAIIUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $500,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS+114 more: $3,197,707 · Other+114 moreDRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: $1,185,000 · HealthDRUG POLICY ALLIANCENATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $890,735 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALT…PROJECT VISION HAWAII: $600,500 · HealthPROJECT VISION HAWAIIWAIKIKI HEALTH: $175,000 · HealthWAIKIKI HEALTHHAWAII HEALTH & HARM REDUCTION CENTER: $161,900 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY: $150,000 · Health+9 more: $85,500 · HealthAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $621,360 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL L…NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $600,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFE…CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $475,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CONST…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL L…EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $200,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE IN…Fair Elections Center: $100,000 · Civil Rights+6 more: $191,500 · Civil Rights+6 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,120,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS …OXFAM-AMERICA INC: $460,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA …AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $150,000 · InternationalAMERICAN NEAR …HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $140,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS W…MADRE INC: $100,000 · International+18 more: $163,250 · International+18 moreGREENPEACE FUND INC: $150,000 · EnvironmentALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $81,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $80,000 · EnvironmentRainforest Action Network: $60,000 · Environment+14 more: $60,000 · EnvironmentHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $260,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $200,000 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $30,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $11,000 · Food & NutritionSEEDING JUSTICE: $200,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $104,000 · PhilanthropyTWO WEST FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyGOFUNDMEORG: $25,500 · PhilanthropyMAUI UNITED WAY: $25,000 · PhilanthropyOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $23,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,000 · Philanthropy
Other$7,632,707Health$3,248,635Civil Rights$2,437,860International$2,133,250Environment$581,000Food & Nutrition$551,000Philanthropy$479,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetDRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: $1,185,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,120,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $890,735 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $805,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $621,360 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT VISION HAWAII: $600,500 over 5y, 19% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $600,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $475,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $460,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $260,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY DOULA ALLIANCE: $200,000 over 2y, 98% of budgetSEEDING JUSTICE: $200,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFeeding America: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $175,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetWAIKIKI HEALTH: $175,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII HEALTH & HARM REDUCTION CENTER: $161,900 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC: $150,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE OF THE LAND: $150,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $140,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $120,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $104,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMADRE INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTWO WEST FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 3y, 52% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFair Elections Center: $100,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $81,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF HAWAI'I: $63,000 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetRainforest Action Network: $60,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCIVIC INFLUENCERS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetENVIRONMENT HAWAII INC: $45,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetCENTER FOR CUBAN STUDIESINC: $40,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetTHE PEOPLE'S FUND: $38,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetPortland New Family Fund: $35,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetNational Women's Health Network: $35,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds WAIKIKI HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII HEALTH & HARM REDUCTION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY ↗
  • Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
  • Who funds LIFE OF THE LAND ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MADRE INC ↗
  • Who funds TWO WEST 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.

Atherton Family Found…J Watumull FundAloha United Way IncBank of Hawaii Charit…Central Pacific Bank …The Cades FoundationCooke Foundation Limi…First Insurance Compa…The Harry and Jeanett…The Queen's Medical C…McInerny Foundation--Tradewind Group Found…
Atherton Family FoundationHI48.4× affinity22 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 · 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

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 Padosi Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Padosi Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 Padosi Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Padosi 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 201 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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