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Thomas and Sumie McCabe Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$200k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
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 FY2017–2025.

Housing & Shelter$204kFood & Nutrition$198kEducation$178kPublic Safety & Disaster$165kHuman Services$138kHealth$107kReligion$90kArts & Culture$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSETS SCHOOL$25,000
PBS HAWAII$20,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII$20,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF HAWAII$20,000
HAWAII FOODBANK INC$15,000
FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER$15,000
HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$15,000
HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO$15,000
STRAUB BENIOFF FOUNDATION$10,000
RIVER OF LIFE MISSION$10,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII$10,000
THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $442k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $25k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $20k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $20k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $15k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $15k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $13k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $10k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $10k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $10k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $20k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $15k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $15k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $10k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $10k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $10k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $9k → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $15k → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $10k → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $5k → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $5k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF HAWAII: $30k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF HAWAII: $25k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF HAWAII: $20k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF HAWAII: $20k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF HAWAII: $20k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF HAWAII: $15k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF HAWAII: $15k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF HAWAII: $10k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF HAWAII: $10k → 9%ALTERNATIVE STRUCTURES INTERNATIONA: $15k → 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.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 16 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
4

Total granted

$1.0M
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+33%

Still filing today

94%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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 ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionReligionOther

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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    9× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +46%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII
    9× · 2017–2025 · $138k · revenue +96%
  • AS
    ASSETS SCHOOL
    2× · 2024–2025 · $120k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -83%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII INC
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +16%
  • AS
    ALTERNATIVE STRUCTURES INTERNATIONALgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +59%

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 - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
2
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
3
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
4
Hui Pohala

Palliative care is a win-win-win-win. expanding access to palliative care benefits all parts of the healthcare system. people living with serious illness are better able to manage physical and emotional symptoms and have peace of mind that…

Health
5
Kapi'olani Health Foundation

The mission of kapi'olani health foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.

Health
6
Hawaii Education Institute
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7
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

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

Human Services
8
Kaua'i Medical Clinic

Kaua'i medical clinic, an affliate of hawai'i pacific health, is a multi-specialty clinic dedicated to providing world-class care for adults and children across hawai'i and the pacific region in partnership with kapi'olani medical center…

Health
9
Hawaiian Islands Land Trust

Hawaiian islands land trust dba hawai'i land trust (hilt) is hawai'i's statewide land trust that is both a hawai'i 501(c)3 nonprofit, and a nationally accredited land trust. hilt's mission is to protect and steward the lands that sustain…

Environment
10
The People's Fund

Hawai`i people`s fund supports, funds, and amplifies the work of hawai`i- based grassroots organizations challenging systems of oppression.

Human Services
11
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
12
Healthcare Association of Hawaii

The mission of the healthcare association of hawaii is to be hawaii's most effective advocate for the comprehensive and financially strong healthcare system that successfully responds to the diverse and changing needs of all we serve.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Meals On Wheels Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Nature Conservancy. 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%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%5%10–20yr18%20%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr14%40%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr18%17%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr14%42%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%0/23
the rest of the field
13%
695/5,418

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

22 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. 22 of the 26 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
18/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $165,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constitu…CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII — $138,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAIIFAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII — $89,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAIIFEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER — $35,000 · Human ServicesFEEDING HAWAII TOGETHERALTERNATIVE STRUCTURES INTERNATIONAL — $15,000 · Human ServicesASSETS SCHOOL — $120,000 · EducationASSETS SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $45,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF H…HAWAII FOODBANK INC — $103,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII FOODBANK…HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $60,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII MEALS ON…ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM OF HI — $20,000 · OtherST FRANCIS HEAL…PLANNED PARENTHOOD — $15,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTH…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $15,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONS…HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO — $15,000 · OtherHAWAII PUBLIC R…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII INC — $15,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BI…STRAUB BENIOFF FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherSTRAUB BENIOFF …RIVER OF LIFE MISSION — $10,000 · OtherRIVER OF LIFE M…HAWAII LITERACY INC — $8,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS HAWAII INC — $30,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPIC…HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII — $20,000 · OtherHAWAII PUBLIC T…+1 more — $5,000 · OtherIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC — $80,000 · Housing & ShelterIHS THE I…KAHALA SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY INC — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterKAHALA SE…DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER — $80,000 · ReligionStraub Foundation — $29,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII — $22,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $20,000 · Health
Human Services$442,000Education$165,000Food & Nutrition$163,000Other$163,000Housing & Shelter$100,000Religion$80,000Health$71,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $165,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII — $138,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetASSETS SCHOOL — $120,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC — $103,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII — $89,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC — $80,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER — $80,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $60,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER — $35,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS HAWAII INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetStraub Foundation — $29,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII — $22,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAHALA SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALTERNATIVE STRUCTURES INTERNATIONAL — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII LITERACY INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE — $5,000 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.

J Watumull FundBank of Hawaii Charit…First Insurance Compa…Tradewind Group Found…Aloha United Way IncChung Kun Ai Foundati…Friends of Hawaii Cha…Central Pacific Bank …Atherton Family Found…The Harry and Jeanett…First Hawaiian Bank F…Cooke Foundation Limi…
J Watumull FundHI36.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J Watumull Fund · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · Chung Kun Ai Foundation · Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited

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 Thomas and Sumie McCabe 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%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%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 · 0–90%
    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 Thomas and Sumie McCabe Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Thomas and Sumie McCabe 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 26 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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