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Thomas and Sumie Mccabe Foundation

Honolulu, HI · EIN 47-2621382. Reported 36 grants totalling $533,000 to 11 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$11,500median grant
$533,000granted, 2021-2024
11organizations funded
90%of grantees funded again the next year
$3,166,063assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Thomas and Sumie Mccabe Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $11,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $10,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $3,000 and the largest $95,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
1 grant
$5,000 - $10,000
6 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
26 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Assets SchoolHonolulu, HI$95,000112024
Catholic Charities HawaiiHonolulu, HI$68,000442024
Hawaii Foodbank IncHonolulu, HI$68,000442024
American Red Cross of HawaiiHonolulu, HI$65,000442024
Domestic Violence Action CenterHonolulu, HI$50,000332023
Family Promise of HawaiiHonolulu, HI$49,000442024
Hawaii Meals on Wheels IncHonolulu, HI$45,000442024
The Institute for Human ServicesHonolulu, HI$45,000442024
Feeding Hawaii TogetherHonolulu, HI$20,000332024
St Francis Healthcare System of HiHonolulu, HI$20,000332023
Hawaii Literacy IncHonolulu, HI$8,000222022

10 of 11 (91%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 90%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 31 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
15 grants
Food & Nutrition
8 grants
Housing & Shelter
4 grants
Religion
3 grants
Education
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20219$150,000$15,000
202210$98,000$10,000
20239$100,000$10,000
20248$185,000$12,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Honolulu, HI
$533K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Aloha United Way Inc9 shared recipientsJ Watumull Fund9 shared recipientsBank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn8 shared recipientsFriends of Hawaii Charities Inc7 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund6 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $11,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Hawaii.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Thomas and Sumie Mccabe Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 240908, Honolulu, HI, 96824. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 47-2621382 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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