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The Ohana 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.

$355k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
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$605kHealth$462kHuman Services$285kCivil Rights$281kArts & Culture$273kFood & Nutrition$205kInternational$128kHousing & Shelter$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL$50,000
MAUI PREPARATORY ACADEMY$50,000
TRUE WEST FILM CENTER$50,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$20,000
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS$20,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$20,000
MAUI FOOD BANK$20,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$10,000
THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
FINCA$10,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION CA (CA CHAPTER)$10,000
Individual grant recipient$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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PROJECT GLIMMER: $1k → 10%GALILEE CENTER: $10k → 11%FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 21%FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 21%RUNG FOR WOMEN: $10k → 21%RUNG FOR WOMEN: $10k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 17%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

WA
MT
IL
NY
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
HI
GA
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 25 repeat orgs$193k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
19

Total granted

$2.2M
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+16%

Still filing today

76%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
Human ServicesCivil RightsHealthArts & CultureInternationalEducationOther
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

  • MP
    MAUI PREPARATORY ACADEMY
    6× · 2019–2025 · $315k · revenue +21%
  • MM
    MARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $285k · revenue +27%
  • THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $176k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • CA
    CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM SAINT LOUIS
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • MS
    MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +16%
  • TB
    The BC Fund
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
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
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
3
Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International
4
Global Poverty Project Inc

Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.

Social Science
5
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
6
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation

The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…

Health
7
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
8
Co-Impact Philanthropic Funds Inc

Philanthropic collaborative focused on improving lives through just & inclusive systems change.

Philanthropy
9
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
10
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
11
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
12
Fos Feminista Fund

Fos feminista fund was formed exclusively for charitable purposes to support, foster, aid, and enhance access to contraception, responsible parenthood, reproductive health, and empowerment of women and shall aid and support the activities…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rung Foundation 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

38 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. 38 of the 54 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/38
Grantees still filing
22/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $257,250 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODTHE SALVATION ARMY: $105,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $40,000 · OtherBABY2BABY: $40,000 · OtherCOCA: $35,000 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $95,000 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC+22 more: $200,380 · Other+22 moreMAUI PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $315,000 · EducationMAUI PREPARATORY ACADEMYMARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $284,500 · EducationMARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOLSaint Louis Fashion Fund: $25,000 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $176,346 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FO…The Representation Project: $70,000 · Civil RightsThe Represent…REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $15,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMM…SAINT LOUIS ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT: $10,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $5,000 · Civil RightsTRUE WEST FILM CENTER: $110,000 · Arts & CultureTRUE WEST…CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS: $79,000 · Arts & CultureCONTEMPOR…MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $15,000 · Arts & CultureMARIN SHA…+2 more: $3,500 · Arts & CultureReproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood Great Rivers: $135,000 · HealthReproduct…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $30,000 · HealthST JUDE C…The BC Fund: $10,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $165,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesRUNG FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesFLANCE MANAGEMENT INC D/B/A FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $20,000 · Human ServicesGALILEE CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$772,630Education$624,500Civil Rights$276,346Arts & Culture$207,500Health$190,000Food & Nutrition$175,000Human Services$146,000

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 budgetMAUI PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $315,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetMARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $284,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $176,346 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $165,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetReproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood Great Rivers: $135,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTRUE WEST FILM CENTER: $110,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $95,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $90,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS: $79,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetThe Representation Project: $70,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $40,000 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetBABY2BABY: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Louis Fashion Fund: $25,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetRUNG FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFLANCE MANAGEMENT INC D/B/A FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS: $19,880 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Network of Abortion Funds: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOGETHER RISING: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S BAKERY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT GLIMMER: $1,000 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Trio Foundation of St…St Louis Community Fo…Marin Community Found…Silicon Valley Commun…The John and Alison F…Leon and Mary Strauss…The Kranzberg Family …Youthbridge Community…Regional Cultural and…St Louis Community Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…
Trio Foundation of St LouisMO17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trio Foundation of St Louis · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The John and Alison Ferring Family Foundation · Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · St Louis Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Ohana Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ohana Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
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How do I get to The Ohana Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Ohana 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 54 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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