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The Dods 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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Education$3.6MHealth$519kArts & Culture$222kHuman Services$117kHousing & Shelter$100kPhilanthropy$75kCrime & Legal$60kPublic Benefit$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$1,096,424
SAINT LOUIS SCHOOL$200,000
MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE$100,000
DYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS$50,000
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$50,000
STRAUB FOUNDATION$20,000
ALOHA UNITED WAY$10,000
MEDIATION CENTER OF THE PACIFIC$5,000
HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
CHILD & FAMILY SERVICE$5,000
CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU$5,000
HENRY KAPONO FOUNDATION$5,000
HAWAII WOMEN'S LEGAL FOUNDATION$5,000
DONKEY MILL ART CENTER$5,000
HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO$5,000
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 (FY18–24, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $1k → 9%LANAKILA PACIFIC: $25k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $13k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $13k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $1k → 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 edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.6M · 23 repeat orgs$164k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
14

Total granted

$4.6M
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+28%

Still filing today

78%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +165%
  • MI
    MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE
    6× · 2018–2024 · $333k · revenue +28%
  • CU
    CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU
    5× · 2018–2024 · $111k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • HC
    HONOLULU COUNCIL NAVY LEAGUE
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • LP
    LANAKILA PACIFICgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +28%
  • GA
    Governor Ariyoshi Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -95%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
2
Hawaii Education Institute
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3
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
4
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
5
Hawaii Maritime Center
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6
Hui Pohala

Palliative care is a win-win-win-win. expanding access to palliative care benefits all parts of the healthcare system. people living with serious illness are better able to manage physical and emotional symptoms and have peace of mind that…

Health
7
Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Society Inc

In 1972, kumu hula george lanakilakekiahiali`i na`ope and kahu wendell silva created our organization to preserve hawaiian culture through dance. from that idea they formed the kalihi-palama culture & arts society, inc. (kpcas) to provide…

—
8
Hawaii Exemplary State Foundation
Community Improvement
9
Kapi'olani Medical Specialists

Kapi'olani medical specialists (dba hawai'i pacific health medical group) is a multispecialty provider group dedicated to providing world-class care for adults and children across hawai'i and the pacific region working in partnership with…

Health
10
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
11
Hawaii Public Television Foundation Dba Pbs Hawaii

The mission of pbs hawai'i is to advance learning and discovery by sharing stories that profoundly touch lives. we bring the world to hawai'i and hawai'i to the world.

Arts & Culture
12
Hawaii Association of Independent Schools

The hawai'i association of independent schools (hais) advocates on behalf of independent education in hawaii, provides services that strengthen individual schools and engages them to achieve educational quality and excellence for all…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Hawai'i Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Pantry. 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 50 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr14%11%5–10yr18%7%10–20yr18%14%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr14%46%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr18%1%10–20yr18%2%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr14%86%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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%0/34
the rest of the field
13%
695/5,407

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

33 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. 33 of the 42 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
21/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $2,282,424 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATIONCHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU — $111,001 · Education+4 more — $71,000 · EducationSAINT LOUIS SCHOOL — $805,000 · OtherSAINT LOUIS SCHOOLTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER — $420,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CE…MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE — $332,500 · OtherMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTEDYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS — $100,000 · OtherCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE — $65,000 · Other+12 more — $190,000 · Other+12 moreBISHOP MUSEUM — $45,000 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART — $31,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $17,500 · Arts & CultureHAWAII OPERA THEATRE — $12,500 · Arts & CultureHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $7,500 · Arts & CultureREAD TO ME INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $7,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureThe Henry Kapono Foundation — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $3,500 · Arts & CultureCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII — $26,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU — $26,000 · Human ServicesLANAKILA PACIFIC — $25,000 · Human ServicesALOHA UNITED WAY INC — $75,000 · PhilanthropyStraub Foundation — $60,000 · HealthTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER — $10,000 · HealthNational Kidney Foundation Inc — $2,500 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthAIO FOUNDATION — $62,500 · Recreation & Sports
Education$2,464,425Other$1,912,500Arts & Culture$134,000Human Services$77,000Philanthropy$75,000Health$73,500Recreation & Sports$62,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $2,282,424 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE — $332,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU — $111,001 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS — $100,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetALOHA UNITED WAY INC — $75,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE — $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAIO FOUNDATION — $62,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetStraub Foundation — $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MEDIATION CENTER OF THE PACIFIC INC — $55,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetPUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetBISHOP MUSEUM — $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART — $31,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII — $26,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU — $26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLANAKILA PACIFIC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO — $23,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $17,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHAWAII OPERA THEATRE — $12,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGovernor Ariyoshi Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREAD TO ME INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHONOLULU POLICE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetHISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHAWAII WOMEN'S LEGAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budget'IOLANI SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Henry Kapono Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildrens Discovery Center — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

J Watumull FundTradewind Group Found…First Hawaiian Bank F…Bank of Hawaii Charit…Atherton Family Found…The Cades FoundationFirst Insurance Compa…Aloha United Way IncMcInerny Foundation--Kosasa FoundationCastiglione A Casauri…Central Pacific Bank …
J Watumull FundHI47.1× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J Watumull Fund · Tradewind Group Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Atherton Family Foundation · The Cades Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · McInerny Foundation-- · Kosasa Foundation · Castiglione A Casauria Foundation · Central Pacific Bank 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 The Dods 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Dods Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Dods 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 42 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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