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The Holland America Line Foundation

The primary purpose of THE HOLLAND AMERICA LINE FOUNDATION is to support non-profit charitable organizations that support environmental, health-related, cultural arts, or educational causes as well as social services in the maritime industry.

$635k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$423k
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 2024.

Health$1.6MInternational$1.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$93kArts & Culture$27kCommunity Improvement$15k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $589,521, the rows itemized in this filing. The $634,822 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $45,301 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $157k
  • $250k+1 grant · $423k
$82,436
Median grant
3
States reached
$53k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DIRECT RELIEF$422,937
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$82,436
ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION$74,148
SAN DIEGO HARBOR POLICE$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SAN DIEGO HARBOR POLICE: $10k → 11%DIRECT RELIEF: $717k → 14%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $26k → 14%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $459k → 13%K1 BRITANNIA FOUNDATION: $47k → 6%NORTHWEST HARVEST: $10k → 9%ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION: $81k → 10%DIRECT RELIEF: $423k → 14%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $456k → 13%ALLIANCE FOR PIONEER SQUARE: $15k → 9%ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION: $74k → 10%DIRECT RELIEF: $36k → 14%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $307k → 13%NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: $27k → 10%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $131k → 13%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $82k → 13%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 3 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$2.8M
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+21%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’23’24
InternationalHealthEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue -83%
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    3× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +20%
  • AG
    ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $155k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • KB
    K1 BRITANNIA AMERICA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $47k · revenue ×7,625
  • NM
    NATIONAL MALL AND MEMORIAL PARKS
    one grant, 2018 · $27k
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2020 · $26k · revenue +21%
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
Alaska Farmers Market Association

to promote, support and advocate for Alaska agriculture

Education
2
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
3
Pacific Atlantic Action Coalition

The mission of the organization is to educate the general public regarding issues of public policy and to promote and bring about advances in such areas of public policy. the organization promotes public policy change through education,…

Social Science
4
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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5
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
6
Seward Association for the Advancement of Marine Science

The alaska sealife center generates and shares scientific knowledge to promote understanding and stewardship of alaska's marine ecosystems.

Animals
7
Amazon Conservation Association

Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…

Environment
8
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
9
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
10
Kaiser Foundation for the Advancement of Integrated Health Care

Kaiser foundation for the advancement of integrated health care is a nonprofit 501(c)(4) advocacy organization to engage in proactive advocacy to promote understanding of the benefits of integrated care and coverage, and support of the…

Health
11
American Culinary Federation Education Foundation Inc

To provide for education, scholarships and other charitable purposes related to the culinary profession

—
12
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Central Kitchen Inc; the most unlike its peers is K1 Britannia America 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,434,922 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCDIRECT RELIEF: $1,175,502 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF+1 more: $25,886 · InternationalALASKA GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION: $154,725 · EnvironmentK1 BRITANNIA AMERICA FOUNDATION: $47,327 · OtherNATIONAL MALL AND MEMORIAL PARKS: $26,500 · OtherNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $10,000 · OtherThe Alliance for Pioneer Square: $15,000 · Community ImprovementSAN DIEGO HARBOR POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Health$1,434,922International$1,201,388Environment$154,725Other$83,827Community Improvement$15,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,434,922 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $1,175,502 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALASKA GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION: $154,725 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,886 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Alliance for Pioneer Square: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSAN DIEGO HARBOR POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Holland America Line Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Holland America Line 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%8%15%22%30%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 · 0–30%
    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 Holland America Line Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Holland America Line 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 9 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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