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The Stephen E and Isabella H Stevens World Peace Foundation at a glance

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The Stephen E and Isabella H Stevens World Peace Foundation

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.

$354k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$160k
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.

Education$1.8MInternational$425kYouth Development$210kPhilanthropy$23kArts & Culture$5k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $69k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $260k
$5,700
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAWAII PACIFIC MODEL UNITED NATIONS INC$160,000
HAWAII CENTER FOR YOUTH PHILANTHROPY$100,000
UNIVERSITY LABORATORY SCHOOL$25,000
THE LAULIMA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (VIA LCI)$23,170
HAWAII ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS$20,500
DREW SCHOOL$5,700
ISLAND SCHOOL$5,500
HANALANI SCHOOLS$5,000
HAWAII TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY$3,400
HAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY$3,100
PARKER SCHOOL$2,800
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 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BRECK SCHOOL: $5k → 11%DREW SCHOOL: $6k → 10%CARDEN ACADEMY OF MAUI: $750 → 9%ISLAND SCHOOL: $10k → 9%PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $60k → 9%HAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $6k → 15%DREW SCHOOL: $3k → 10%ISLAND SCHOOL: $6k → 9%PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $50k → 9%HAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $5k → 15%DREW SCHOOL: $2k → 10%ISLAND SCHOOL: $5k → 9%HAWAII ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS: $23k → 9%HAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $3k → 15%HAWAII TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY: $4k → 9%UNIVERSITY LABORATORY SCHOOL: $25k → 9%PARKER SCHOOL: $3k → 15%HAWAII TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY: $4k → 9%HAWAII ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS: $21k → 9%PARKER SCHOOL: $3k → 15%HAWAII TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY: $3k → 9%LE JARDIN ACADEMY: $5k → 9%PARKER SCHOOL: $3k → 15%ISLAND SCHOOL: $2k → 9%HAWAII PACIFIC MODEL UNITED NATIONS INC: $160k → 9%HAWAII PACIFIC MODEL UNITED NATIONS INC: $125k → 9%HAWAII PACIFIC MODEL UNITED NATIONS INC: $105k → 9%HAWAII CENTER FOR YOUTH PHILANTHROPY: $100k → 9%HAWAII PACIFIC MODEL UNITED NATIONS INC: $25k → 9%THE LAULIMA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (VIA LCI): $23k → 9%IOLANI SCHOOL: $8k → 9%IOLANI SCHOOL: $4k → 9%KAWAIHOA FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%FRIENDS OF HAWAII TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY: $3k → 9%FRIENDS OF HAWAII TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY: $3k → 9%HAWAII TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY: $1k → 9%WAIPAHU HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 9%WAIPAHU HIGH SCHOOL: $180 → 9%LANIKUHONUA CULTURAL INSTITUTE: $2k → 9%HANALANI SCHOOLS: $5k → 9%ST ANDREWS PRIORY SCHOOL: $520k → 9%ST ANDREWS PRIORY SCHOOL: $500k → 9%ST ANDREWS PRIORY SCHOOL: $175k → 9%ST ANDREWS PRIORY SCHOOL: $175k → 9%ST ANDREWS PRIORY SCHOOL: $120k → 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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 12 repeat orgs$279k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
7

Total granted

$2.1M
$126k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+10%

Still filing today

83%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • HP
    HAWAII PACIFIC MODEL UNITED NATIONS INCORPORATED
    4× · 2021–2024 · $415k · revenue +915% · 100% of their budget
  • PS
    PUNAHOU SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $110k · revenue +34%
  • IS
    ISLAND SCHOOL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $22k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • PC
    PEACE CHILD INTERNATIONAL HAWAII
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • CO
    CEEDS OF PEACEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +591%
  • BS
    Breck School
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +10%
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
Hawaii Education Institute
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2
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
3
Kula Aupuni Niihau a Kahelelani Aloha (Kanaka)

Preserve niihau cultural values and language.

Education
4
Waimea Country School

Waimea country school's mission is to educate children to become confident, responsible, and compassionate people.

Education
5
Island Pacific Academy Inc

Island pacific academy (ipa) is a k-12 independent, coed, college preparatory school

Education
6
Pacific Heritage Schools

At pacific heritage academy we use the power of education, the endurance of language and culture, and the virtue of relationships and community to help young people on voyages of discovery. through thoughtful inquiry, challenging…

Education
7
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
8
Pacific Northern Academy

To educate students to be exceptional learners and independent thinkers of vision, courage, and integrity.

—
9
Mid-Pacific Institute

To create a place of belonging that cultivates compassionate, world-ready learners who make a positive impact through purpose-driven passions and creativity, rooted in our christian heritage.

—
10
American Renaissance Academy

Its mission is to inspire each student to be a confident, competent, compassionate and moral individual prepared to contribute to the rapidly changing global community. ARA provides a rigorous, individualized and comprehensive…

Education
11
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
12
Princeton International School of Mathematics and Science Inc

The purpose of the school is to promote, advance and sponsor charitable and educational activities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hanalani Schools; the most unlike its peers is Hawaii Pacific Model United Nations Incorporated. 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

16 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. 16 of the 23 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST ANDREW'S SCHOOLS: $1,490,000 · OtherST ANDREW'S SCHOOLSPEACE CHILD INTERNATIONAL HAWAII: $100,000 · OtherPEACE CHILD INTERNATIONAL HAWAIIHAWAII CENTER FOR YOUTH PHILANTHROPY: $100,000 · OtherHAWAII CENTER FOR YOUTH PHILANTHROPY+8 more: $82,616 · OtherHAWAII PACIFIC MODEL UNITED NATIONS INCORPORATED: $415,000 · InternationalHAWAII PACIFIC MODE…PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $110,000 · EducationPUNAHOU SC…HAWAII ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS: $43,000 · EducationHAWAII ASS…ISLAND SCHOOL: $22,406 · EducationISLAND SCH…HAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $13,900 · EducationHAWAII PRE…'IOLANI SCHOOL: $12,000 · EducationPARKER SCHOOL: $8,300 · Education+4 more: $16,100 · Education+4 moreCEEDS OF PEACE: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$1,772,616International$415,000Education$225,706Human Services$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 budgetST ANDREW'S SCHOOLS: $1,490,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetHAWAII PACIFIC MODEL UNITED NATIONS INCORPORATED: $415,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS: $43,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetISLAND SCHOOL: $22,406 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $13,900 over 2y, 0.7% of budget'IOLANI SCHOOL: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDREW SCHOOL: $10,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCEEDS OF PEACE: $10,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetPARKER SCHOOL: $8,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF HAWAII TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY: $5,350 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBreck School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLE JARDIN ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHANALANI SCHOOLS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANIKUHONUA CULTURAL INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARDEN ACADEMY OF MAUI: $750 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.

McInerny Foundation--First Hawaiian Bank F…George N Wilcox Gener…Atherton Family Found…Lga Family FoundationThe Strong FoundationThe Clarence Tc Ching…Aloha United Way IncThe Ayco Charitable F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…
McInerny Foundation--HI22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: McInerny Foundation-- · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · George N Wilcox General Trust · Atherton Family Foundation · Lga Family Foundation · The Strong Foundation · The Clarence Tc Ching Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Stephen E and Isabella H Stevens World Peace Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stephen E and Isabella H Stevens World Peace Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    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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    Find your warmest path to The Stephen E and Isabella H Stevens World Peace 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 23 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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