· Private foundation
Sw Wilcox Trust
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAIOLI HUIIA CHURCH | $35,000 |
| NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN | $20,000 |
| NAMAHANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ISLAND SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| WAIOLI CORPORATION | $20,000 |
| HAWAIIAN LIFEGUARD ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $20,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII | $20,000 |
| HAWAII LAND TRUST | $15,000 |
| HALE HALAWAI OHANA O HANALEI | $15,000 |
| HUI O LAKA | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY HAWAIIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND DIVSION | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $57k) 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Sw Wilcox Trust’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.
18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ISISLAND SCHOOL4× · 2021–2024 · $120k · revenue +46%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII5× · 2020–2024 · $105k · revenue +28%
- NTNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN4× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +240%
Funded once
- HSHANALEI SCHOOL FOUNDATION SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $45k
- HSHANALEI SCHOOL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $45k
- ISISLAND SCHOOL CAPITAL CAMPAIGNone grant, 2020 · $40k
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.
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.
Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance the cultural and natural landscape of the kiholo bay area through collaborative management and active community stewardship.
The mission is to protect and preserve the natural and cultural resources of the hana moku and the customary and traditional practices of native hawaiians of the region; to preserve and manage the area's natural, cultural, scenic, historic…
Kahea is a community-based organization working to improve the quality of life for hawai`i's people and future generations through the revitalization and protection of hawai`i's unique natural and cultural resources. kahea advocates for…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waipa Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kauai Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 34 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 ISLAND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Hale Halawai Ohana O Hanalei ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Namahana Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds KAUAI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WAIOLI CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN LIFEGUARD ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds REEF GUARDIANS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HUI O LAKA ↗
- Who funds KAUAI LIFEGUARD ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAIPA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MALAMA PONO HEALTH SERVICES FKA MALAMA PONO-KAUAI AIDS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds RICE STREET BUSINESS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KAUAI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION LTD ↗
- Who funds Leadership Kauai ↗
- Who funds KAUAI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Atherton Family Foundation · Waimakua Foundation · George N Wilcox General Trust · McInerny Foundation-- · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Elsie Wilcox Foundation · Hawaii Council for Humanities · Donald C McGraw Foundation Inc · Cooke Foundation Limited · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Sw Wilcox Trust 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.