· Private foundation
Signature Travel Network 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $177k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABERCROMBIE & KENT PHILANTHROPY INC | $60,000 |
| THE AFRICA FOUNDATION TRUST | $50,000 |
| ENTREAMIGOS | $46,908 |
| EDUCATION AFRICA INC | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| UTHANDO SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS SOUTH AFRICA | $35,000 |
| EMPOWERS AFRICA INC | $25,000 |
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 US giving — 83% of grant dollars ($730k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 17% that went abroad ($154k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 82% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Beyond the US — 17% of all-years giving ($154k)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k 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
- AKABERCROMBIE & KENT PHILANTHROPY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $86k · revenue +2%
- EAEDUCATION AFRICA INC2× · 2022–2024 · $65k · 62% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2022–2024 · $45k
Funded once
MAUI FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +138%- MHMAUI HUMANE SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +79%
- TCTRAVEL CRUISE INC DBA PINCCone grant, 2022 · $30k
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.
Protecting and promoting the marine biodiversity of Hawai'i through coral restoration, ecological monitoring, regenerative tourism, and cultural integration
Support the protection of the vital terrestrial and near-shore ecosystems of haleakala
The corporation is organized for the charitable, educational and scientific purpose of supporting biological research, protection of wildlife and habitat management in amozonian coutries.
Hawai`i people`s fund supports, funds, and amplifies the work of hawai`i- based grassroots organizations challenging systems of oppression.
To support native Hawaiian forest habitats such as Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge in terms of restoring protecting and conserving biological diversity at both the Hakalau and Kona Forest Units. Particular emphasis is focused on…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
Maui nui marine resource council is a maui-based nonprofit working in partnership with the community to protect and restore our coastal and ocean ecosystems. we focus on collaborative, place-based solutions to achieve clean water, healthy…
To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…
Ho'ala kealakekua nui, inc. (hkn) is a native hawaiian-driven nonprofit corporation committed to implementing traditional methods of environmental stewardship and restoration, education and outreach, and cultural preservation at the wahi…
Protect the ocean through science and advocacy and inspire environmental stewardship, remaining steadfastly dedicated to saving the world's whales and dolphins from extinction through research, education, (see schedule o)
To take substantial actions that result in the preservation, recovery and stewardship of Hawaiis protected marine species and the ocean ecosystem we share.
The hawaii marine education and research center (merc) is a state of hawaii and u.s. federal 501(c)3 non-profit organization that connects communities to timely scientific information on marine resources. located in milolii on hawaii…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Human Connections. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 15 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 HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ABERCROMBIE & KENT PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds ENTREAMIGOS ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERS AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARALLIANCE ↗
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.
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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 Signature Travel Network 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.
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