· Private foundation
The Victoria S and Bradley L Geist Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 90 grants below total $2,207,350 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,558,519 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $351,169 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k50 grants · $125k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $413k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EFFECTIVE PLANNING INNOVATIVE COMMUNICATION INC | $400,000 |
| IOLANI SCHOOL | $180,000 |
| KIDS HURT TOO HAWAII | $100,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $75,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII - RESEARCH SERVICES | $60,000 |
| KIDS HURT TOO HAWAII | $53,715 |
| HANA ARTS | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER | $50,000 |
| HALE KIPA INC | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII | $50,000 |
| PILI KAIALULU CORP PILI OHANA | $50,000 |
| FAMILY PROGRAMS HAWAII | $50,000 |
| FAMILY RUN HAWAII/HI PEER PARENTING SUPPORTS | $50,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY, HAWAIIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDS | $50,000 |
| COLLABORATIVE SUPPORT SERVICES ALOHA AT HOME | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 61 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HNHO'OLA NA PUA3× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +2%
- HKHALE KIPA INC3× · 2020–2023 · $136k · revenue +3%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF EAST HAWAII2× · 2020–2021 · $110k · revenue +22% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- EPEFFECTIVE PLANNING & INNOVATIVE COMMUNICATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $808k · revenue +38%
- PSPUNAHOU SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +17%
- UOUH OFFICE OF RESEARCH SERVICESone grant, 2020 · $188k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Ho`omau ke ola provides comprehensive rehabilitation services including residential and outpatient care, treatment, and counseling to persons recovering from problems related to persons with mental and substance abuse disorders. ho`omau ke…
Kalauokekahuli encourages the healthy growth of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander families by supporting and enhancing the well-being of birthing people, parents, and their infants with holistic, multi-generational, and…
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…
Hale Opio Kauai, Inc. is dedicated to improving the quality of life, enhancing a sense of belonging, increasing self-awareness, and strengthening ohana by providing residential and community programs for education, prevention, diversion,…
The mission of maui family support services, inc. (mfss) is to promote healthy family functioning by providing supportive services which build on family strengths. the prime directive is to utilize our collective resources toward the…
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…
The hawai'i association of independent schools (hais) advocates on behalf of independent education in hawaii, provides services that strengthen individual schools and engages them to achieve educational quality and excellence for all…
To provide quality, integrated health and social services to our community and all others in need of health care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hale Kipa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Equine Therapy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
39 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. 39 of the 218 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds EFFECTIVE PLANNING & INNOVATIVE COMMUNICATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROGRAMS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds PUNAHOU SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HO'OLA NA PUA ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds HALE KIPA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF EAST HAWAII ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HUI HAWAII ↗
- Who funds Friends of Childrens Justice Center ↗
- Who funds KIDS HURT TOO HAWAII ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII ↗
- Who funds THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROOTED ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds WISDOM CIRCLES OCEANIA ↗
- Who funds MA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Atherton Family Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · J Watumull Fund · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Cooke Foundation Limited · Tradewind Group Foundation · Teresa Hughes Trust · Locations Foundation · The Queen's Medical Center · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation
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 The Victoria S and Bradley L Geist 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.
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.
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