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Peter G Drewliner 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.

$43k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Arts & Culture$165kReligion$19kEducation$17kFood & Nutrition$12kEnvironment$12kHuman Services$10kHousing & Shelter$7kYouth Development$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$500
Median grant
4
States reached
$904k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART$25,000
CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE$2,500
HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS$2,500
RIVER OF LIFE MISSION$2,000
MANOA HERITAGE CENTER$1,500
YMCA OF HONOLULU$1,000
NATIONAL BONSAI FOUNDATION$1,000
OUTRIGGER DUKE KAHANAMOKU FOUNDATION$1,000
DOWNTOWN ART CENTER$1,000
JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII$1,000
OUTDOOR CIRCLE$500
HONOLULU HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$500
HAWAII WATERCOLOR SOCIETY$500
PALAMA SETTLEMENT$500
DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $7k) 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.

area typical 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $500 → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $500 → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $500 → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $1k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $1k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $1k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $1k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$242k · 40 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
10

Total granted

$242k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+4%

Still filing today

75%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther

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

  • HO
    HAWAII OPERA THEATRE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +162%
  • HS
    HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +86%
  • HM
    HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • MF
    MOUNA FARM ARTS & CULTURAL VILLAGE
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
  • CM
    Claremont McKenna Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +68%
  • AU
    ALOHA UNITED WAY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -20%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
2
Hawaii Maritime Center
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3
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
4
Hawaii International Film Festival

To foster international cultural awareness and understanding through the medium of film. to act as a creative pipeline for hawaii and the pacific, showcasing new and emerging talent from hawaii, asia, americas, europe, and the pacific…

Arts & Culture
5
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
6
Hawaii Education Institute
—
7
Hawaii Medical Association

Hawaii medical association is dedicated to serving physicians, their patients and community through representation, advocacy, and public service. core activities: advocacy, education

—
8
Hui No'eau

Unlocking creativity through exceptional visual arts education and enhancing this endeavor through preservation of the historic kaluanui estate.

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9
Uhiwai O Haleakala

The mission of the corporation shall be to work with partners to protect and restore native ecosystems and watersheds, to improve the quality and quantity of freshwater resources to perpetuate hawaiian cultural resources and practices, to…

Environment
10
Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Society Inc

In 1972, kumu hula george lanakilakekiahiali`i na`ope and kahu wendell silva created our organization to preserve hawaiian culture through dance. from that idea they formed the kalihi-palama culture & arts society, inc. (kpcas) to provide…

—
11
Hawaiian Historical Society

The society is dedicated to preserving historical materials relating to hawaii, and to publishing scholarly research on hawaiian history so present and future peoples throughout the world will recognize and appreciate the history. the…

Arts & Culture
12
Hawaii Pacific Model United Nations Incorporated
International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Hawai'i Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Point Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%6%10–20yr18%17%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr14%49%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%8%10–20yr18%11%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr14%62%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
13%
695/5,400

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.

04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 51 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
28/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART — $82,252 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ARTHAWAII OPERA THEATRE — $15,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII OPERA THEATREHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $15,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAMANOA HERITAGE CENTER FKA MANOA VALLEY CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUND — $7,500 · Arts & CultureMANOA HERITAGE CENTER FKA MANOA VALLEY CULTURAL HERITAGE F…+8 more — $14,350 · Arts & Culture+8 moreRIVER OF LIFE MISSION — $10,000 · OtherRIVER OF LIFE MISSIONCENTRAL UNION CHURCH — $9,000 · OtherCENTRAL UNION CHURCHCLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE — $7,500 · OtherCLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGEHAWAII ARTS ALLIANCE — $7,500 · OtherHAWAII ARTS ALLIANCEHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO — $5,000 · OtherHAWAII PUBLIC RADIOMOUNA FARM ARTS & CULTURAL VILLAGE — $4,000 · OtherHAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $3,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA -- ALOHA COUNCIL — $3,000 · OtherOUTRIGGER DUKE KAHANAMOKU FOUNDATION — $3,000 · OtherDOWNTOWN ART CENTER — $6,000 · OtherDOWNTOWN ART CENTERHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $3,000 · Other+15 more — $23,700 · Other+15 moreHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $12,000 · Food & NutritionTHE NATIONAL BONSAI FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EnvironmentTHE OUTDOOR CIRCLE — $2,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF HONOLULU BOTANICAL GARDENS — $500 · EnvironmentPUNAHOU SCHOOL — $2,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $2,000 · EducationPOINT FOUNDATION — $2,000 · EducationKCAA PRESCHOOLS OF HAWAII — $1,000 · EducationYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU — $5,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII — $1,500 · Human ServicesHONOLULU HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $4,500 · Housing & ShelterIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC — $1,000 · Housing & ShelterRESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT — $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Arts & Culture$134,102Other$84,700Food & Nutrition$12,000Environment$8,000Education$7,000Human Services$6,500Housing & Shelter$6,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART — $82,252 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII OPERA THEATRE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $12,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMANOA HERITAGE CENTER FKA MANOA VALLEY CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUND — $7,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII ARTS ALLIANCE — $7,500 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetDOWNTOWN ART CENTER — $6,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE NATIONAL BONSAI FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHONOLULU HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA -- ALOHA COUNCIL — $3,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetHISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUTRIGGER DUKE KAHANAMOKU FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetClaremont McKenna College — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIAMOND HEAD THEATRE — $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII WATERCOLOR SOCIETY — $2,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE OUTDOOR CIRCLE — $2,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHonolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce — $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII — $2,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetALOHA UNITED WAY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBISHOP MUSEUM — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPALAMA SETTLEMENT — $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII UNITED OKINAWA ASSOCIATION — $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKCAA PRESCHOOLS OF HAWAII — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF HONOLULU BOTANICAL GARDENS — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

J Watumull FundFirst Insurance Compa…Cooke Foundation Limi…Central Pacific Bank …Atherton Family Found…Aloha United Way IncBank of Hawaii Charit…McInerny Foundation--Tradewind Group Found…Kosasa FoundationThe Kenneth and Diane…Padosi Foundation
J Watumull FundHI38.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J Watumull Fund · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · McInerny Foundation-- · Tradewind Group Foundation · Kosasa Foundation · The Kenneth and Diane Matsuura Foundation · Padosi 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 Peter G Drewliner 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    10report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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