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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.

$38k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$61kEducation$40kEnvironment$36kReligion$35kAnimals$28kHealth$24kHuman Services$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$92k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAIKU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION$4,500
KEOKEA HOMESTEAD FARM LOTS ASSN$4,000
NA AIKANE 'O MAUI INC$3,000
MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY$3,000
CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS & SCIENC$2,500
N AMERICAN CONF ON ETHIOPIAN JEWRY$2,000
HAWAII FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION$2,000
HAIKU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA$2,000
IMUA FAMILY SERVICES$2,000
ADAS TORAH$2,000
BOARDS 4 BUDDIES$2,000
PAIA YOUTH & COMMUNITY$2,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND USA$1,800
US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$1,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN D ADOM$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, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JUNIOR BLIND OF AMERICA: $1k → 14%JUNIOR BLIND OF AMERICA: $1k → 14%JUNIOR BLIND OF AMERICA: $500 → 14%LA'A KEA VILLAGE: $2k → 9%LA'AKEA VILLAGE: $1k → 9%LA'A KEA VILLAGE: $1k → 9%LA'AKEA VILLAGE: $1k → 9%WOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $2k → 9%MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY: $2k → 9%HOSPICE MAUI INC: $1k → 9%WOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
NJ
CA
CO
DC
HI
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Savitt Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Savitt Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$185k · 21 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +41% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
39

Total granted

$185k
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+41%

Still filing today

62%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureFood & 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

  • MH
    MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +246%
  • CS
    CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES
    5× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +24%
  • HF
    Hawaii Farmers Union Foundation
    5× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • HA
    HUI ALOHA AINA MOMOA
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
  • FS
    FOOD SECURITY HAWAII
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • NA
    N AMER CONF ON ETHIOPIAN JEWRY
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
Hoa Aina O Makaha

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…

Unclassified
2
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
3
Kaiaulu Initiatives

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.

Environment
4
Na Mamo o Kawa

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.

Environment
5
Maui Nui Resiliency Hui

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…

Education
6
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
7
Malama Kua Aina
Environment
8
Na Koa Manu Conservation Inc

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…

Animals
9
Pohaku Pelemaka

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,…

Human Services
10
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
11
Maui Nui Community Managed Makai Area Learning Network

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…

Environment
12
Hui Malama I Ke Ala Ulili

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.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Na Aikane O Maui Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 74 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/45
Grantees still filing
32/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $15,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN D ADOM: $14,499 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN D ADOMHAIKU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherHAIKU ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHUI ALOHA AINA MOMOA: $7,080 · OtherNA KEIKI O EMALIA: $6,000 · Other+39 more: $76,630 · Other+39 moreCROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES: $15,100 · EducationCROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR AR…Hawaii Farmers Union Foundation: $13,951 · EducationHawaii Farmers Union Fou…MAUI TOMORROW FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 · EducationMAUI TOMORROW FOUNDATION…Maui Huliau Foundation: $8,500 · EducationMaui Huliau FoundationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $4,500 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUN…BOOK TRUST: $3,500 · EducationBOOK TRUSTNA AIKANE O MAUI INC: $3,000 · Education+2 more: $1,500 · EducationMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $24,750 · AnimalsMAUI HUMA…THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 · AnimalsBIO BAMBOO INC: $17,000 · EnvironmentMAUI NUI MARINE RESOURCE COUNCIL INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $2,000 · EnvironmentPACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EnvironmentLA'AKEA VILLAGE: $5,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $3,000 · Human ServicesWayfinder Family Services: $2,500 · Human ServicesMAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE MAUI INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesFEED MY SHEEP INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesIMUA FAMILY SERVICES: $5,606 · HealthPACIFIC BIRTH COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED: $2,000 · HealthPARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER: $1,026 · HealthMANA'OLANA PINK PADDLERS: $500 · Health+1 more: $200 · HealthKEOKEA HOMESTEAD FARM LOTS ASSOCIATION: $4,000 · Food & NutritionMAUI HUB: $3,800 · Food & NutritionCOMMON GROUND COLLECTIVE: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$154,709Education$63,551Animals$25,750Environment$23,000Human Services$14,500Health$9,332Food & Nutrition$8,800

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 budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $24,750 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBIO BAMBOO INC: $17,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetCROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES: $15,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHawaii Farmers Union Foundation: $13,951 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMAUI TOMORROW FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetMaui Huliau Foundation: $8,500 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetNA KEIKI O EMALIA: $6,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetIMUA FAMILY SERVICES: $5,606 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLA'AKEA VILLAGE: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEOKEA HOMESTEAD FARM LOTS ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetMAUI HUB: $3,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOOK TRUST: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI NUI MARINE RESOURCE COUNCIL INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNA AIKANE O MAUI INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWayfinder Family Services: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MAUI INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON ETHIOPIAN JEWRY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC BIRTH COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $1,034 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER: $1,026 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI HUI MALAMA: $1,025 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE MAUI INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY SHEEP INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWonderworks: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI THERAPY ANIMALS: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPEDIATRIC EQUIPMENT OF THE PACIFIC: $200 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 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 UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds HAIKU COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds KEOKEA HOMESTEAD FARM LOTS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MAUI HUB ↗
  • Who funds BOOK TRUST ↗
  • Who funds MAUI NUI MARINE RESOURCE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NA AIKANE O MAUI INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN HELPING WOMEN ↗
  • Who funds Wayfinder Family Services ↗
  • Who funds The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MAUI INC ↗

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.

Maui United WayFred Baldwin Memorial…Atherton Family Found…Nuestro Futuro IncKaiser Foundation Hea…The Harry and Jeanett…Bendon Family Foundat…The Red Cabin Foundat…Botton FoundationBank of Hawaii Charit…Kaanapali Ocean Resor…Jeanne and Jim Riley …
Maui United WayHI36.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    18report 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 74 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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