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Thomas and Sumie McCabe Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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 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.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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
HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$15,000
THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES$10,000
STRAUB BENIOFF FOUNDATION$10,000
RIVER OF LIFE MISSION$10,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII$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.

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Its 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 its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +33% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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 - 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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Meals On Wheels Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $15,000 · OtherHAWAII PUBLIC R…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $15,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONS…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII INC: $15,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BI…RIVER OF LIFE MISSION: $10,000 · OtherRIVER OF LIFE M…STRAUB BENIOFF FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherSTRAUB BENIOFF …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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER: $80,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $80,000 over 7y, 0.1% 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 budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKAHALA SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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

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 Thomas and Sumie McCabe Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas and Sumie McCabe Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    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

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 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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