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Servco Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$267k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$117k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Philanthropy$2.4MEducation$360kHuman Services$28kRecreation & Sports$27kArts & Culture$24kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kYouth Development$17kEnvironment$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $63k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $117k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALOHA UNITED WAY$116,783
IMUA FAMILY SERVICES$20,000
PROTECT & PRESERVE HAWAII$15,000
MA KA HANA KA IKE$15,000
MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC$12,981
Individual grant recipient$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,500
THE SALVATION ARMY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
DONORSCHOOSE$4,150
Individual grant recipient$3,000
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 (FY25–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 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 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
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
2
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
3
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
4
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
5
Malama Kua Aina
Environment
6
Hawaii Education Institute
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7
Hawaii Maritime Center
—
8
Hawaii Exemplary State Foundation
Community Improvement
9
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
10
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
11
The People's Fund

Hawai`i people`s fund supports, funds, and amplifies the work of hawai`i- based grassroots organizations challenging systems of oppression.

Human Services
12
University of Hawaii Foundation

To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Purple Maia Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Vernon Patao Mission. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteady#15#20#6#4#1#18
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%8%<5yr14%19%5–10yr18%12%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr15%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%10%5–10yr18%6%10–20yr18%22%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr15%49%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% 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%0/33
the rest of the field
13%
695/5,408

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

29 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. 29 of the 52 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
12/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALOHA UNITED WAY INC — $116,783 · PhilanthropyALOHA UNITED WAY INCHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $30,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMaui Pop Warner Federation Inc. — $7,500 · OtherMaui Pop Warner Federation Inc.Alzheimer's Association — $5,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherVERNON PATAO MISSION — $10,000 · OtherVERNON PATAO MISSIONJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM — $5,000 · OtherGEORGIA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · OtherHAWAII FOODBANK INC — $5,000 · Other+21 more — $28,680 · Other+21 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $20,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nat…MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC — $12,981 · Human ServicesMAUI ECONOMI…FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER — $5,000 · Human ServicesFEEDING HAWA…WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER — $2,500 · Human ServicesWAIKIKI COMM…MA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentMA KA HAN…DOWNTOWN ATHLETIC CLUB HAWAII — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentDOWNTOWN …IMUA FAMILY SERVICES — $20,000 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $2,500 · Health+1 more — $500 · HealthPROTECT & PRESERVE HAWAII INC — $15,000 · Environment+2 more — $1,000 · EnvironmentPUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORG — $4,150 · EducationSHIDLER COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $2,000 · EducationLAHAINALUNA HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $500 · Education
Philanthropy$146,783Other$108,680Human Services$40,481Youth Development$30,000Health$23,000Environment$16,000Education$11,650

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 budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMUA FAMILY SERVICES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPROTECT & PRESERVE HAWAII INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetDOWNTOWN ATHLETIC CLUB HAWAII — $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC — $12,981 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERNON PATAO MISSION — $10,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $4,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO — $2,860 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAalii Mentoring — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHAWAII WOMEN'S LEGAL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMAUI POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE — $1,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAINA MOMONA — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Bank of Hawaii Charit…Tradewind Group Found…The Harry and Jeanett…First Insurance Compa…Cooke Foundation Limi…Aloha United Way IncAtherton Family Found…McInerny Foundation--J Watumull FundFriends of Hawaii Cha…Ben & Miriam Lau Foun…Hemic Foundation
Bank of Hawaii Charitable FdnHI26× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Tradewind Group Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · Aloha United Way Inc · Atherton Family Foundation · McInerny Foundation-- · J Watumull Fund · Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc · Ben & Miriam Lau Foundation · Hemic 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 Servco 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Servco Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Servco 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 52 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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