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Savitt Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAIKU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION | $4,500 |
| KEOKEA HOMESTEAD FARM LOTS ASSN | $4,000 |
| MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| NA AIKANE 'O MAUI INC | $3,000 |
| CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS & SCIENC | $2,500 |
| IMUA FAMILY SERVICES | $2,000 |
| N AMERICAN CONF ON ETHIOPIAN JEWRY | $2,000 |
| ADAS TORAH | $2,000 |
| HAWAII FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| BOARDS 4 BUDDIES | $2,000 |
| HAIKU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA | $2,000 |
| PAIA YOUTH & COMMUNITY | $2,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND USA | $1,800 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN D ADOM | $1,000 |
| JUNIOR BLIND OF AMERICA | $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, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Savitt Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +56% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 11 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, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- MHMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY6× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +246%
- CSCROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES5× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +24%
- HFHawaii Farmers Union Foundation5× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +131%
Funded once
- HAHUI ALOHA AINA MOMOAone grant, 2021 · $7k
- FSFOOD SECURITY HAWAIIone grant, 2019 · $5k
- NAN AMER CONF ON ETHIOPIAN JEWRYone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Hoa aina o makaha (land of makaha shared in friendship) is more than a destination farm or nonprofit organization. the embrace of a sanctuary is felt by whoever enters the gates and a sense of belonging usually follows. once a barren piece…
Kaiaulu initiatives is regreening and rebuilding lahaina one tree and one person at a time through education, training, community networking & sustainability while incorporating hawaiian cultural practices.
to rehabilitate, curate, and steward the natural and cultural resources of Kawa to honor the past, benefit the present, and preserve for the future generations of Ka'u, the Island of Hawaii and all humankind.
Maui nui resiliency hui (mnrh) is committed to creating a more resilient and equitable future for maui county by focusing on affordable housing solutions that empower our community members. our mission is to collaborate, educate, and…
To further the protection and recovery of native hawaiian birds and plants through on the ground management, forest restoration, and public outreach and education. this is carried out by supporting conservation research and management…
Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance: the intrinsic qualities of the lower puna area, native hawaiian wellbeing, and the transmission of intergenerational knowledge and practices in partnership with county, state, government,…
Our mission is to connect communities across maui nui to care for and restore healthy ecosystems on which hawai'i's people depend. we want to share and learn from our diverse experiences, lessons, and best practices to help member sites…
To re-establish the systems that sustain our community through educational initiatives and land-based practices that cultivate abundance, regenerate responsibilities, and promote collective health and well being.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Na Aikane O Maui Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative. 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 25 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 74 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 MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BIO BAMBOO INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds Hawaii Farmers Union Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAUI TOMORROW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Maui Huliau Foundation ↗
- Who funds NA KEIKI O EMALIA ↗
- Who funds IMUA FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LA'AKEA VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds HAIKU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds KEOKEA HOMESTEAD FARM LOTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MAUI HUB ↗
- Who funds BOOK TRUST ↗
- Who funds WOMEN HELPING WOMEN ↗
- Who funds MAUI NUI MARINE RESOURCE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NA AIKANE O MAUI INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative ↗
- Who funds Wayfinder Family Services ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC BIRTH COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY 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: Maui United Way · Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · Nuestro Futuro Inc · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Bendon Family Foundation · The Red Cabin Foundation Trust · Botton Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Kaanapali Ocean Resort Charitable Trust · Jeanne and Jim Riley 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 Savitt Family 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.
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.