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The Emmett R Quady Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE$10,000
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS$10,000
RISEN CHRIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SPACE INFORMATION LABORATORIES INC$5,000
OCEAN INSTITUTE$5,000
CHARCOT-MARIE TOOTH ASSOCIATION$5,000
MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER$5,000
KAI BIGAN NG LAHANIA$4,000
HAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE$2,500
MOBILE LOAVES AND FISHES$2,500
CASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MN
IL
MI
MA
OR
OH
PA
CT
CA
MD
DC
HI
AL
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

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

+26%
+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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…THE CREATIVE CITY INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CREATIVE CI…HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII SYMPHONY…SALLY E DEAN PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSALLY E DEAN PE…+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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE: $10,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CREATIVE CITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALLY E DEAN PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 73% 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 budgetCHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGualala Arts Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GILBERT HOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $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 budgetTHE SALEM FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF HAWAI'I: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ARC IN HAWAII: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADA Foundation: $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 budgetST ANDREW'S SCHOOLS: $2,500 over 3y, 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 budgetRussian River Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence: $2,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetHAWAII NATURE CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Emmett R Quady Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Emmett R Quady Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 110 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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