· Private foundation
Ac Kobayashi Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $255k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HANAHAU'OLI SCHOOL | $105,000 |
| MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| KUKI'O HO'OMANA FUND | $5,000 |
| ARMED SERVICES YMCA HAWAII | $5,000 |
| PALI MOMI FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| AFTER SCHOOL ALL STARS | $2,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ALOHA COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| MALAMA MANOA | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $36k) 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.
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.
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 +103% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k 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
- KHKapi'olani Health Foundation5× · 2019–2023 · $333k · revenue +150%
- MIMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE4× · 2019–2024 · $175k · revenue +24%
- HSHANAHAUOLI SCHOOL4× · 2019–2024 · $162k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- AJAMERICAN JUDICATURE SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +16%
- TQTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +51%
REGIS COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +15%
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.
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…
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…
The mission of straub foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.
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…
Hawaii medical association is dedicated to serving physicians, their patients and community through representation, advocacy, and public service. core activities: advocacy, education
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kuakini Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Judicature Society. 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 13% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 30 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
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 Kapi'olani Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JUDICATURE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU ↗
- Who funds QUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds POLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds KOHALA ANIMAL RELOCATION & EDUCATION SERVICE ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REGIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KUKIO HOOMANA FUND ↗
- Who funds HAWAII AG AND CULINARY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Pali Momi Foundation ↗
- Who funds KUAKINI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds MANOA HERITAGE CENTER FKA MANOA VALLEY CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUND ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HAWAII CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA -- ALOHA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Malama Manoa ↗
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: J Watumull Fund · Tradewind Group Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · McInerny Foundation-- · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Chung Kun Ai Foundation · Castiglione A Casauria Foundation · The Queen's Medical Center · Laulima 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 Ac Kobayashi Family 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.
- Regis College — 2% of income from government
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.