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The Red Cabin Foundation Trust at a glance

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The Red Cabin Foundation Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$410k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$120k
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$538kEnvironment$337kEducation$306kHuman Services$254kPhilanthropy$201kEmployment$101kYouth Development$87kFood & Nutrition$87kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $210k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $170k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$120,000
KAPIOLANI HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII INC$36,100
THE V FOUNDATION$30,000
SEABURY HALL$25,000
CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND$20,000
MAUI FAMILY YMCA$15,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII INC$15,000
MAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION$15,000
UVSC$14,002
CHARITY WATER$10,000
LAHAINA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$10,000
MONTESSORI OF MAUI INC$10,000
RESOLVE INCORPORATED$10,000
GIFT FOUNDATION OF HAWAII$6,000
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 (FY17–24, $172k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CHARITY WATER: $10k → 4%SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 9%HAWAII DISABILITY RIGHTS CENTER: $5k → 9%MAUI FAMILY YMCA: $100k → 9%MAUI FAMILY YMCA: $15k → 9%MAUI FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 9%MAUI FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 9%MAUI FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 9%MAUI FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 9%MAUI FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 9%MAUI FAMILY YMCA: $3k → 9%MAUI FAMILY YMCA: $2k → 9%MAUI FAMILY YMCA: $2k → 9%MAUI FAMILY YMCA: $1k → 9%WOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $2k → 9%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
NY
MA
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
HI
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of The Red Cabin Foundation Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Red Cabin Foundation Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 31 repeat orgs$599k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +94% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
70

Total granted

$1.4M
$527k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+14%

Still filing today

90%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • GI
    GRASSROOT INSTITUTE OF HAWAII INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $200k · revenue +142%
  • MO
    MONTESSORI OF MAUI INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $196k · revenue +5%
  • MF
    MAUI FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $153k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • KL
    Ka Lima O Maui Ltd
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -7%
  • LC
    Lanai Community Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +27% · 41% of their budget
  • MA
    MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -19%
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
Lai Hauola

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

Food & Nutrition
2
Malama Kua Aina
Environment
3
Ocean Alliance Project

Protecting and promoting the marine biodiversity of Hawai'i through coral restoration, ecological monitoring, regenerative tourism, and cultural integration

Science & Tech
4
Hui Malama I Ke Ala Ulili

To re-establish the systems that sustain our community through educational initiatives and land-based practices that cultivate abundance, regenerate responsibilities, and promote collective health and well being.

Community Improvement
5
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
6
Maui Ocean Center Marine Institute

To inspire lifelong environmental stewardship and to ensure the survival of coral reefs and sea turtles in hawaii through science-based conservation efforts, education and outreach.

Environment
7
Hoala Kealakekua Nui Inc

Ho'ala kealakekua nui, inc. (hkn) is a native hawaiian-driven nonprofit corporation committed to implementing traditional methods of environmental stewardship and restoration, education and outreach, and cultural preservation at the wahi…

Environment
8
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
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
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
11
Ke Ao Halii

The mission is to protect and preserve the natural and cultural resources of the hana moku and the customary and traditional practices of native hawaiians of the region; to preserve and manage the area's natural, cultural, scenic, historic…

Environment
12
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

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

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Hawaii; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

78 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. 78 of the 109 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/78
Grantees still filing
59/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII: $135,100 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF …MAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION: $116,000 · HealthMAUI HEALTH FOUNDATIONUVSC: $60,502 · HealthUVSCKapi'olani Health Foundation: $50,000 · HealthKapi'olani Health Foundati…THE V FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATIONRESOLVE Incorporated: $39,000 · HealthRESOLVE IncorporatedALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Health+6 more: $41,000 · Health+6 moreKa Lima O Maui Ltd: $100,000 · OtherKa Lima O Maui LtdLanai Community Association: $50,000 · OtherLanai Community AssociationSEABURY HALL: $47,000 · OtherSEABURY HALLMAUI HUI MALAMA: $36,000 · OtherMAUI HUI MALAMACHARITY GLOBAL INC - CHARITY WATER: $30,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MAUI INC: $22,000 · OtherMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $25,000 · Other+58 more: $318,399 · Other+58 moreMONTESSORI OF MAUI INC: $195,500 · EducationMONTESSORI OF …BOOK TRUST: $30,500 · EducationBOOK TRUSTHawaii Farmers Union Foundation: $19,000 · EducationHawaii Farmers…FRIENDS OF MOLOKAI HIGH & MIDDLE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationPINNACLES PREP CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationMAUI NUI RESILIENCY HUI: $10,000 · Education+4 more: $8,000 · EducationHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $155,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUN…THE MAUI FARM INC: $28,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MAUI FARM…THE GIFT FOUNDATION OF HAWAII: $26,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GIFT FOUN…LAKE CHELAN HEALTH AND WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyLAKE CHELAN H…ALOHA UNITED WAY INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyALOHA UNITED …GRASSROOT INSTITUTE OF HAWAII INC: $200,000 · Public BenefitGRASSROOT …MAUI FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $152,500 · Human ServicesMAUI FAMI…CHARITY GLOBAL INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY G…+4 more: $11,500 · Human Services+4 moreHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $47,000 · EnvironmentHALEAKALA CONSERVANCY INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $10,000 · EnvironmentMAUI NUI MARINE RESOURCE COUNCIL INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $8,000 · Environment+4 more: $12,000 · Environment
Health$506,602Other$628,399Education$283,000Philanthropy$254,000Public Benefit$200,000Human Services$184,000Environment$112,000

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 budgetGRASSROOT INSTITUTE OF HAWAII INC: $200,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetMONTESSORI OF MAUI INC: $195,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $155,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $152,500 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII: $135,100 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION: $116,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetKa Lima O Maui Ltd: $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUVSC: $60,502 over 7y, 11% of budgetLanai Community Association: $50,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetKapi'olani Health Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $47,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSEABURY HALL: $47,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRESOLVE Incorporated: $39,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMAUI HUI MALAMA: $36,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetBOOK TRUST: $30,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MAUI FARM INC: $28,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTHE GIFT FOUNDATION OF HAWAII: $26,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHALEAKALA CONSERVANCY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE CHELAN HEALTH AND WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MAUI INC: $22,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetALOHA UNITED WAY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII: $19,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetHawaii Farmers Union Foundation: $19,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKA HALE A KE OLA HOMELESS RESOURCE CENTERS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHALE MAKUA HEALTH SERVICES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALOHA HARVEST: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNISEI VETERANS MEMORIAL CENTER: $12,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHUI MAULI OLA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBASKETBALL MAUI: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF MOLOKAI HIGH & MIDDLE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MAULI OLA FOUNDATION DBA BREATH OF LIFE: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHALE TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLAHAINA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPINNACLES PREP CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMAUI NUI RESILIENCY HUI: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMAUI NUI MARINE RESOURCE COUNCIL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Childrens Justice Center: $7,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCity Surf Project: $7,000 over 4y, 0.6% 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.

Atherton Family Found…Fred Baldwin Memorial…Cooke Foundation Limi…Central Pacific Bank …Bank of Hawaii Charit…Maui United WayThe Harry and Jeanett…The Strong FoundationKosasa FoundationJ Watumull FundBendon Family Foundat…First Hawaiian Bank F…
Atherton Family FoundationHI49× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atherton Family Foundation · Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Maui United Way · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Strong Foundation · Kosasa Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Bendon Family Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank 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 Red Cabin Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Red Cabin Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
26report 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 Red Cabin Foundation Trust?

Find your warmest path to The Red Cabin Foundation Trust 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 109 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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