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The Emmett R Quady Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$134k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
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 FY2017–2025.

Education$402kHealth$251kArts & Culture$179kHuman Services$87kEnvironment$51kPhilanthropy$43kFood & Nutrition$37kAnimals$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $43k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$859k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AIO FOUNDATION$50,000
THE WHARTON FUND$12,500
Individual grant recipient$10,000
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS$10,000
OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE$10,000
SPACE INFORMATION LABORATORIES INC$5,000
CHARCOT-MARIE TOOTH ASSOCIATION$5,000
MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER$5,000
OCEAN INSTITUTE$5,000
RISEN CHRIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
KAI BIGAN NG LAHANIA$4,000
MOBILE LOAVES AND FISHES$2,500
HAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE$2,500
CASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION$2,500
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 (FY17–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $6k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF HAWAII: $30k → 9%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $5k → 9%SENIOR CONCERNS: $2k → 10%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

VT
WA
MN
IL
MI
MA
OR
OH
PA
CT
CA
MD
DC
HI
AL
TX

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$723k · 31 repeat orgs$427k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
69

Total granted

$723k
$388k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+19%

Still filing today

74%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionOther

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

  • HM
    HUI MALAMA O KE KAI FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $107k · revenue +46%
  • OC
    OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE
    7× · 2018–2025 · $70k · revenue +33%
  • HN
    HO'OLA NA PUA
    3× · 2018–2021 · $43k · revenue +175%

Funded once

  • WF
    WORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -62%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAIIgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +96%
  • CP
    CAL POLY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $25k

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
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
Mohala Pua School Dba Honolulu Waldorf School

See schedule o.at honolulu waldorf school, we educate each child to find meaning, passion, and purpose in life and to contribute to the creation of a better world for all. through a curriculum based on the developmental stages of the human…

Education
3
Lai Hauola

To preserve the immediate and long-term health and wellbeing of lahaina's diverse communities and precious natural resources.

Food & Nutrition
4
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
5
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
6
The Kohala Center

The kohala center is an independent community-based center for research, conservation, and education.

Environment
7
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

To improve the health and well-being of our community.

Human Services
8
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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9
Kapi'olani Health Foundation

The mission of kapi'olani health foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.

Health
10
Hawaii Culinary Education Foundatio

The hawaii culinary education foundation's mission is to provide hawaiis culinary students and professional access to the best knowledge and exposure to cutting-edge techniques through a variety of programs and educational opportunities…

Education
11
Straub Foundation

The mission of straub foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.

Health
12
Hawaii Public Radio

The mission of hawai'i public radio is to serve the people of hawai'i by informing with essential news, inspiring through the power of music and the arts, and connecting through conversations and convenings.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Marshall & Yuko Hung Foundation. 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 backsteadyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Community FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyYouth Sports ProgramsYouth Development CentersCommunity Arts CentersFood Banks and Pantries
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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%40%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr16%33%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/74
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,491

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

69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 69 of the 110 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/69
Grantees still filing
41/69
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOLY CROSS — $50,000 · OtherHOLY CROSSCAL POLY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherCAL POLY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONCHRIST THE KING SCHOOL — $19,000 · OtherWHARTON UNIVERSITY OF PA — $18,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherMARSHALL & YUKO HUNG FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $25,000 · OtherHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETYHAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVE — $20,000 · Other+58 more — $242,500 · Other+58 moreOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE — $70,000 · EducationOCCIDENTAL COLLEG…TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $40,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE C…'IOLANI SCHOOL — $25,000 · Education'IOLANI SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $21,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAW…BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION — $20,000 · EducationBENNINGTON COLLEG…+4 more — $7,500 · EducationHUI MALAMA O KE KAI FOUNDATION — $106,700 · Arts & CultureHUI MALAMA O KE…SALLY E DEAN PERFORMING ARTS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSALLY E DEAN PE…HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $10,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII SYMPHONY…THE CREATIVE CITY INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CREATIVE CI…+7 more — $24,500 · Arts & Culture+7 moreWORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND — $100,000 · HealthWORLDWIDE FI…The Day Kimball Healthcare Foundation Inc — $20,000 · HealthThe Day Kimb…CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · Health+3 more — $5,500 · HealthAIO FOUNDATION — $87,853 · Recreation & SportsAIO FOUNDA…FORT WORTH DROWNING PREVENTION COALITION — $17,000 · Recreation & SportsFORT WORTH…HO'OLA NA PUA — $42,500 · Human ServicesHO'OLA NA…CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII — $30,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC …MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER — $10,500 · Human ServicesMONUMENT …HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Human Services+3 more — $6,000 · Human Services+3 moreCONEJO VALLEY BOTANIC GARDEN — $16,000 · EnvironmentForest Unlimited — $9,500 · EnvironmentBLUE PLANET FOUNDATION — $8,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EnvironmentHUI MAHIAI AINA — $4,000 · EnvironmentHAWAII NATURE CENTER INC — $2,500 · Environment+2 more — $2,000 · Environment
Other$449,500Education$183,500Arts & Culture$161,200Health$130,500Recreation & Sports$104,853Human Services$94,000Environment$47,000

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 budgetHUI MALAMA O KE KAI FOUNDATION — $106,700 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetWORLDWIDE FISTULA FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetAIO FOUNDATION — $87,853 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE — $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA — $42,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budget'IOLANI SCHOOL — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Day Kimball Healthcare Foundation Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFORT WORTH DROWNING PREVENTION COALITION — $17,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetCONEJO VALLEY BOTANIC GARDEN — $16,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNCGA FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMONUMENT CRISIS CENTER — $10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC — $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSALLY E DEAN PERFORMING ARTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 73% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE — $10,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CREATIVE CITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetForest Unlimited — $9,500 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetBLUE PLANET FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCounterPulse — $6,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GILBERT HOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGualala Arts Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOCEAN INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHUI MAHIAI AINA — $4,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetEl Dorado Community Foundation — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON PLACE FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFEEDING THE FOOTHILLS — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALEM FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST ANDREW'S SCHOOLS — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC BUDDHIST ACADEMY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALOHA HARVEST — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKALIHI-PALAMA CULTURE & ARTS SOCIETY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMIDDLEBURY TRANSITIONAL CARE COALITION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ARC IN HAWAII — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRussian River Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence — $2,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF HAWAI'I — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHAWAII NATURE CENTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 FundCentral Pacific Bank …Aloha United Way IncAtherton Family Found…The Harry and Jeanett…The Queen's Medical C…First Hawaiian Bank F…Tradewind Group Found…Bank of Hawaii Charit…The Cades FoundationHarold Kl Castle Foun…Castiglione A Casauri…
J Watumull FundHI32× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J Watumull Fund · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · Atherton Family Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Queen's Medical Center · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · The Cades Foundation · Harold Kl Castle Foundation · Castiglione A Casauria 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 Emmett R Quady 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 · 30%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Bennington College Corporation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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How do I get to The Emmett R Quady Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Emmett R Quady 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 110 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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