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Macnaughton 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.

$124k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
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 FY2020–2025.

Philanthropy$671kHuman Services$381kEducation$244kHealth$149kEmployment$70kPublic Safety & Disaster$63kEnvironment$55kArts & Culture$37kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $73k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$470k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STRAUB FOUNDATION$25,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA - HAWAII$15,000
EASTER SEALS$12,500
HAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVE$10,000
HONOLULU HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
YWCA$7,700
HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO$5,000
ST ANDREWS SCHOOLS$5,000
THE PANTRY BY FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER$5,000
50CAN INC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
PUNAHOU SCHOOL$5,000
HAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY$5,000
OHSU FOUNDATION$5,000
HUNAKAI PARK ASSOCIATION$2,000
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 (FY20–25, $264k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE (US VETS): $100k → 14%US VETS: $100k → 14%THE PANTRY BY FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $5k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF HAWAII: $15k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF HAWAII: $5k → 9%AFTER SCHOOL ALL STARS HAWAII: $4k → 9%HALE KIPA: $25k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $10k → 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

IL
NY
OR
IA
CA
CO
VA
DC
HI

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$831k · 31 repeat orgs$316k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
26

Total granted

$831k
$281k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+18%

Still filing today

81%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther

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

  • US
    UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue +37%
  • TC
    THE COLORADO COLLEGE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +3%
  • K
    KUPU
    3× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • US
    UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE (US VETS)
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • KH
    KALIHI-PALAMA HEALTH CENTER (HALE HO'OLA HOU)
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +13%
  • HK
    HALE KIPA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +3%

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
Hawaii Pacific University

Hawaii pacific university is an international learning community set in the rich cultural context of hawaii. students from around the world join us for an american education built on a liberal arts foundation. our innovative undergraduate…

Education
2
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

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

Human Services
3
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
4
Kapi'olani Medical Specialists

Kapi'olani medical specialists (dba hawai'i pacific health medical group) is a multispecialty provider group dedicated to providing world-class care for adults and children across hawai'i and the pacific region working in partnership with…

Health
5
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
6
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
7
Lai Hauola

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

Food & Nutrition
8
Hui Aloha Kiholo

Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance the cultural and natural landscape of the kiholo bay area through collaborative management and active community stewardship.

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
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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11
Hawaii Education Institute
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12
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

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

Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr18%6%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr14%47%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%6%10–20yr18%61%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr14%23%55yr+

The field is 23% 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/52
the rest of the field
13%
695/5,389

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

52 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. 52 of the 64 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
43/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $625,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONALOHA UNITED WAY INC — $26,080 · Philanthropy+1 more — $17,800 · PhilanthropyUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE (US VETS) — $100,000 · OtherUNITED STATES VETERANS INIT…KALIHI-PALAMA HEALTH CENTER (HALE HO'OLA HOU) — $50,000 · OtherKALIHI-PALAMA HEALTH CENTER…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $40,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYAMERICAN RED CROSS HAWAII CHAPTER — $27,500 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS HAWAII C…YWCA — $24,400 · OtherYWCATEACH FOR AMERICA - HAWAII — $22,500 · OtherEASTER SEALS — $18,500 · OtherCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE — $15,000 · Other+25 more — $146,147 · Other+25 moreUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE — $200,000 · Human ServicesUNITED STATES VETE…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $35,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National …HALE KIPA INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesHALE KIPA INCHO'OLA NA PUA — $23,500 · Human ServicesHO'OLA NA PUA+4 more — $18,750 · Human Services+4 moreTHE COLORADO COLLEGE — $80,000 · EducationTHE COLORADO…Teach for America Inc — $42,500 · EducationTeach for Am…50CAN INC — $23,000 · Education50CAN INCASSETS SCHOOL — $20,000 · EducationASSETS SCHOO…Sustain Hawaii — $10,490 · EducationPUNAHOU SCHOOL — $10,000 · Education+6 more — $15,400 · Education+6 moreStraub Foundation — $51,000 · HealthKapi'olani Health Foundation — $24,500 · HealthAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $7,500 · HealthKUPU — $70,250 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII — $3,500 · Youth DevelopmentHOUSING HAWAII'S FUTURE — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterHONOLULU HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterRESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT — $3,000 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$668,880Other$444,047Human Services$302,250Education$201,390Health$83,000Youth Development$73,750Housing & Shelter$38,000

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 budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $625,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE — $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKUPU — $70,250 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetStraub Foundation — $51,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKALIHI-PALAMA HEALTH CENTER (HALE HO'OLA HOU) — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $42,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALOHA UNITED WAY INC — $26,080 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSING HAWAII'S FUTURE — $25,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetHALE KIPA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKapi'olani Health Foundation — $24,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA — $23,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budget50CAN INC — $23,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetASSETS SCHOOL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GIFT FOUNDATION OF HAWAII — $17,800 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST ANDREW'S SCHOOLS — $14,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSustain Hawaii — $10,490 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetMANA UP FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetHONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFrom The Heart Productions — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIntersection for the Arts — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS HAWAII INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO — $6,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUNAKAI PARK ASSOCIATION — $5,500 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetHAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOAHU ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKCAA PRESCHOOLS OF HAWAII — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $3,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII — $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC — $2,526 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOIWAI FUND — $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE OUTDOOR CIRCLE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF HAWAII — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTESSORI COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $1,471 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget'IOLANI SCHOOL — $800 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.

Tradewind Group Found…Atherton Family Found…Bank of Hawaii Charit…J Watumull FundCentral Pacific Bank …Aloha United Way IncFirst Insurance Compa…The Queen's Medical C…McInerny Foundation--First Hawaiian Bank F…The Harry and Jeanett…Chung Kun Ai Foundati…
Tradewind Group FoundationHI45× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tradewind Group Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · J Watumull Fund · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · The Queen's Medical Center · McInerny Foundation-- · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Chung Kun Ai 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 Macnaughton 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 · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • George Fox University — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Macnaughton Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Macnaughton 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 64 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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