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Peter G Drewliner Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
OUTRIGGER DUKE KAHANAMOKU FOUNDATION$1,000
NATIONAL BONSAI FOUNDATION$1,000
YMCA OF HONOLULU$1,000
DOWNTOWN ART CENTER$1,000
JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII$1,000
OUTDOOR CIRCLE$500
DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE$500
HAWAII WATERCOLOR SOCIETY$500
HONOLULU HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$500
PALAMA SETTLEMENT$500
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.

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Its 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. Its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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
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

  • HM
    HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART
    4× · 2021–2025 · $82k · revenue +16%
  • HS
    HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +86%
  • HO
    HAWAII OPERA THEATRE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +162%

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%
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
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
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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…

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

39 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. 39 of the 51 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
29/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $82,252 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ARTHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $15,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAHAWAII OPERA THEATRE: $15,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII OPERA THEATREMANOA 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 CHURCHHAWAII ARTS ALLIANCE: $7,500 · OtherHAWAII ARTS ALLIANCECLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE: $7,500 · OtherCLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGEHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $5,000 · OtherHAWAII PUBLIC RADIOMOUNA FARM ARTS & CULTURAL VILLAGE: $4,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA -- ALOHA COUNCIL: $3,000 · OtherHAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $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 · EnvironmentUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $2,000 · EducationPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $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 & ShelterRESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Arts & Culture$134,102Other$84,700Food & Nutrition$12,000Environment$8,000Education$7,000Human Services$6,500Housing & Shelter$6,500

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 budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $82,252 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII OPERA THEATRE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII ARTS ALLIANCE: $7,500 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetMANOA HERITAGE CENTER FKA MANOA VALLEY CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUND: $7,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDOWNTOWN ART CENTER: $6,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetHONOLULU HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA -- ALOHA COUNCIL: $3,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOUTRIGGER DUKE KAHANAMOKU FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OUTDOOR CIRCLE: $2,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetClaremont McKenna College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII WATERCOLOR SOCIETY: $2,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetDIAMOND HEAD THEATRE: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALOHA UNITED WAY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHonolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII: $2,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $2,000 over 2y, 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 budgetHAWAII UNITED OKINAWA ASSOCIATION: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPALAMA SETTLEMENT: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT: $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 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
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.

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.

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

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 Peter G Drewliner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peter G Drewliner 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%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
    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 51 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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