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The Frost Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$190k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$255kFood & Nutrition$45kArts & Culture$38kPublic Benefit$30kHuman Services$10kHealth$7kPhilanthropy$2kReligion$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $185k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Kuaaina Ulu Auamo$40,000
Aina Momona$30,000
Grow Some Good$30,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
Focus For Democracy$20,000
Hawaii Institute of Pacific Agricul$15,000
Honolulu Civil Beat Inc$15,000
Helping Heal the Earth$10,000
Helping Heal the Earth$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 62% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Helping Heal the Earth: $41k → 8%Focus For Democracy: $10k → 10%Holos Institute Counseling: $5k → 10%Waves of Impact: $2k → 11%Sea Save: $1k → 14%Abundant Earth Foundation: $13k → 18%Grow Some Good: $30k → 9%Honolulu Civil Beat Inc: $15k → 9%Hawaii Institute of Pacific Agricul: $15k → 15%Network for Good Inc: $2k → 14%Helping Heal the Earth: $25k → 8%East Bay Agency for Children: $10k → 10%Temple Beth Shalom: $1k → 10%Aina Momona: $30k → 9%Kuaaina Ulu Auamo: $40k → 9%Helping Heal the Earth: $13k → 8%Dancers Group: $13k → 10%Akua Seva: $2k → 9%Earthjustice Hawaii: $25k → 9%Helping Heal the Earth: $13k → 8%Dancers Group: $10k → 10%Focus For Democracy: $20k → 9%Helping Heal the Earth: $12k → 8%Helping Heal the Earth: $10k → 8%Helping Heal the Earth: $10k → 8%Helping Heal the Earth: $10k → 8%Helping Heal the Earth: $7k → 8%Helping Heal the Earth: $5k → 8%Bolinas Museum: $550 → 8%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.
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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$198k · 3 repeat orgs$189k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$198k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
0%

Still filing today

33%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k 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
EnvironmentArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionReligionOther
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

  • HH
    Helping Heal the Earth
    9× · 2017–2025 · $145k
  • FF
    Focus For Democracy
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k
  • DG
    DANCERS GROUP
    2× · 2017–2018 · $23k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • AE
    ABUNDANT EARTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -4%
  • East Bay Agency for Childrengraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +101%
  • HI
    Holos Institute Counseling
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
2
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
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3
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
4
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
5
Malama Kua Aina
Environment
6
Na Mamo o Kawa

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.

Environment
7
Kaiaulu Initiatives

Kaiaulu initiatives is regreening and rebuilding lahaina one tree and one person at a time through education, training, community networking & sustainability while incorporating hawaiian cultural practices.

Environment
8
Kahaluu Kuahewa

Our mission is to uplift the collective of aina (land), community, and culture, and preserve ancestral knowledge by reconnecting people to the land. we do this through indigenous grassroots initiatives, sustainable agriculture, and…

Environment
9
Kahea the Hawaiian Environmental Alliance

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…

Environment
10
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
11
Aina Hookupu O Kilauea

Improve the environmental, social & economic well-being of the kilauea community and kauai by developing county of kauai land into a community garden,individual farming plots, farmers market & other facilities.

Food & Nutrition
12
Ea Ecoversity

Ea ecoversity's mission is to provide culturally-driven learning, training, credentialing, and other long-term societal benefits to ka lahui hawai'i.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kua Aina Ulu Auamo; the most unlike its peers is Akua Seva 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Helping Heal the Earth: $145,318 · OtherHelping Heal the EarthFocus For Democracy: $30,000 · OtherFocus For DemocracyIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+3 more: $7,000 · OtherKUA AINA ULU AUAMO: $40,000 · EnvironmentKUA AINA ULU AUAMOAINA MOMONA: $30,000 · EnvironmentAINA MOMONAHAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE: $15,000 · EnvironmentHAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC …ABUNDANT EARTH FOUNDATION: $12,500 · EnvironmentABUNDANT EARTH FOUNDATIONDANCERS GROUP: $22,892 · Arts & CultureDANCERS GRO…Honolulu Civil Beat Inc: $15,000 · Arts & CultureHonolulu Ci…+1 more: $550 · Arts & CultureGROW SOME GOOD: $30,000 · Food & NutritionEast Bay Agency for Children: $10,000 · HealthAkua SEVA INC: $2,000 · ReligionWAVES OF IMPACT: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,635 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$207,318Environment$97,500Arts & Culture$38,442Food & Nutrition$30,000Health$10,000Religion$2,000Recreation & Sports$2,000Public Safety & Disaster$1,635

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 budgetGROW SOME GOOD: $30,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetAINA MOMONA: $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetABUNDANT EARTH FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetEast Bay Agency for Children: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAkua SEVA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetWAVES OF IMPACT: $2,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,635 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOLINAS MUSEUM: $550 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

ImpactassetsincAtherton Family Found…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
ImpactassetsincMD14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · Atherton Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Frost Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frost Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%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
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Frost Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Frost 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 18 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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