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Ac Kobayashi Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$296k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$409kHealth$370kArts & Culture$45kHuman Services$39kCrime & Legal$25kYouth Development$17kPhilanthropy$10kAnimals$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $255k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$296k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
AFTER SCHOOL ALL STARS$2,000
PALI MOMI FOUNDATION$2,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ALOHA COUNCIL$1,000
MALAMA MANOA$1,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $10k → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $4k → 9%AFTER SCHOOL ALL STARS: $2k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $10k → 9%THE YMCA OF HONOLULU: $5k → 9%THE YMCA OF HONOLULU: $5k → 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$781k · 11 repeat orgs$141k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +103% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
11

Total granted

$781k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+103%
+16%

Still filing today

91%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • KH
    Kapi'olani Health Foundation
    5× · 2019–2023 · $333k · revenue +150%
  • MI
    MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE
    4× · 2019–2024 · $175k · revenue +24%
  • HS
    HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL
    4× · 2019–2024 · $162k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • AJ
    AMERICAN JUDICATURE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +16%
  • TQ
    THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +51%
  • REGIS COLLEGE
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +15%
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
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
2
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
3
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
4
Straub Foundation

The mission of straub foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.

Health
5
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
6
Hawaii Maritime Center
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7
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
8
Hawaii Medical Association

Hawaii medical association is dedicated to serving physicians, their patients and community through representation, advocacy, and public service. core activities: advocacy, education

—
9
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
10
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

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

Human Services
11
Hawaii Education Institute
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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.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kuakini Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE: $175,000 · OtherMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTEHANAHAUOLI SCHOOL: $162,250 · OtherHANAHAUOLI SCHOOLAMERICAN JUDICATURE SOCIETY: $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN JUDICATURE SOCIETY+10 more: $29,244 · Other+10 moreKapi'olani Health Foundation: $333,000 · HealthKapi'olani Health FoundationQUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $20,000 · HealthQUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL+2 more: $12,000 · HealthGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $17,000 · EducationREGIS COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $25,000 · Arts & CulturePOLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETY: $17,900 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU: $20,000 · Human ServicesAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $16,250 · Human ServicesHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyKUKIO HOOMANA FUND: $5,000 · PhilanthropyKOHALA ANIMAL RELOCATION & EDUCATION SERVICE: $5,500 · AnimalsHAWAII AG AND CULINARY ALLIANCE: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$391,494Health$365,000Education$72,000Arts & Culture$44,900Human Services$36,250Philanthropy$10,000Animals$5,500Food & Nutrition$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKapi'olani Health Foundation: $333,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE: $175,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHANAHAUOLI SCHOOL: $162,250 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN JUDICATURE SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetQUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPOLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETY: $17,900 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $16,250 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKOHALA ANIMAL RELOCATION & EDUCATION SERVICE: $5,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetREGIS COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKUKIO HOOMANA FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII AG AND CULINARY ALLIANCE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPali Momi Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKUAKINI FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMalama Manoa: $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF HAWAII: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANOA HERITAGE CENTER FKA MANOA VALLEY CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 FundTradewind Group Found…Atherton Family Found…Bank of Hawaii Charit…First Hawaiian Bank F…Central Pacific Bank …McInerny Foundation--First Insurance Compa…Chung Kun Ai Foundati…Castiglione A Casauri…The Queen's Medical C…Laulima Foundation
J Watumull FundHI34.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ac Kobayashi Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ac Kobayashi Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Regis College: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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