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The Doreen L Brown Family Charitable 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.

$5k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Community Improvement$35kFood & Nutrition$9kCivil Rights$9kEnvironment$6kArts & Culture$5kEducation$5kCrime & Legal$5kScience & Tech$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$106k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISLAND SCHOOL$2,000
HAWAII ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION$1,500
HEALTH IN HARMONY$500
HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$500
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS: $5k → 8%KAUAI INDEPENDENT FOOD BANK: $3k → 9%HAWAII CHILDRENS' FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND: $2k → 14%FAIR FIGHT INITIATIVE: $5k → 16%VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $35k → 7%THE AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $2k → 10%CHABAD COLORADO: $1k → 12%FIRST PEOPLES FUND: $5k → 14%MANNA FOOD BANK: $2k → 8%ISLAND SCHOOL: $2k → 9%HAWAII ALLIANCE: $5k → 9%CHABAD COLORADO: $1k → 12%HAWAII ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION: $2k → 9%HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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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
2
Uhiwai O Haleakala

The mission of the corporation shall be to work with partners to protect and restore native ecosystems and watersheds, to improve the quality and quantity of freshwater resources to perpetuate hawaiian cultural resources and practices, to…

Environment
3
Hawaii Alliance for Community-Based Economic Development

To encourage increased investment in sustainable and community-based approaches to economic development hacbed advances its mission to address, social, economic, and environmental justice in hawaii through community based economic…

Unclassified
4
Kaialahui Foundation

To empower hawaiis farming community to enhance food production and distribution through education, collaboration and advocacy.

Food & Nutrition
5
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
6
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
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7
Kukio Hoomana Fund

The kuki'o ho'omana fund seeks to uplift and enrich our hawai'i island community through intentional investments in curated local organizations focusing on youth empowerment, affordable housing, environmental preservation, cultural…

Philanthropy
8
Hawaii Workers Center

The hawaii workers center envisions a hawaii in which all workers are empowered to exercise their right to organize for their social, economic and political well-being.

Education
9
Kuakini Foundation

The mission of kuakini foundation is to improve the health status of the community by: providing comprehensive health care services and programs at reasonable cost; continuously improving the quality of health care services and programs;…

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10
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
11
Pacific American Foundation

The pacific american foundation is dedicated to improving the lives of pacific americans by educating and informing decision makers and leaders at all levels on the vital policy areas for americans who trace their ancestry to the…

International
12
Papahana Kuaola

Papahana kuaola's mission is to create quality educational programs focused on environmental restoration and economic sustainability fully integrated with hawaiian knowledge in order to exemplify a lifestyle respectful of kanaka, `aina,…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Fair Fight Initiative Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 17 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Community ImprovementVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATIONHAWAII ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION — $1,500 · Community ImprovementPono Hawaii Initiative — $5,000 · OtherPono Hawaii InitiativeFAIR FIGHT INITIATIVE INC — $5,000 · OtherFAIR FIGHT INITIATIVE INCHAWAII ALLIANCE — $5,000 · OtherHAWAII ALLIANCENATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND — $2,000 · OtherNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUNDIndividual grant recipient — $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMANNA FOOD BANK — $1,500 · OtherMANNA FOOD BANKTHE COMPASS FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Other+2 more — $1,000 · OtherFIRST PEOPLES FUND — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $5,000 · International350ORG — $5,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $2,000 · EducationISLAND SCHOOL — $2,000 · EducationKAUAI FOOD BANK INC — $2,500 · Food & Nutrition
Community Improvement$36,500Other$22,500Arts & Culture$5,000International$5,000Environment$5,000Education$4,000Food & Nutrition$2,500

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 budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPono Hawaii Initiative — $5,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetFIRST PEOPLES FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAIR FIGHT INITIATIVE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget350ORG — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAUAI FOOD BANK INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND SCHOOL — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMPASS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHealth in Harmony — $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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Doreen L Brown Family Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 17 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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