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Armstrong Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$379kPhilanthropy$301kAnimals$191kArts & Culture$57kFood & Nutrition$54kEnvironment$42kHuman Services$24kHousing & Shelter$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$164k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NA KAMA KAI$10,000
HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
THE NATURE CONSERVATORY$1,500
THE OUTDOOR CIRCLE$1,000
AMVETS-HAWAII$100
02The need
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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 (FY18–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YWCA OF O'AHU: $3k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $1k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $1k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $1k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $1k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $500 → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $500 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
VA
MD
DC
HI
TX
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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$421k · 39 repeat orgs$393k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
25

Total granted

$421k
$393k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+12%

Still filing today

67%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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

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Arts & CultureHealthEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HH
    HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY
    5× · 2018–2025 · $188k · revenue +49%
  • HF
    HAWAII FOODBANK INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $34k · revenue +100%
  • NK
    NA KAMA KAI
    4× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +416%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $343k · revenue -81%
  • IF
    INSTITUE FOR HUMAN SERVICES
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • HA
    HAWAII AG AND CULINARY ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +9%
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
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

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3
Hawaii Maritime Center
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4
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
5
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
6
Hawaii Alliance for Progressive Action

Catalyze community empowerment and systemic change towards valuing people and aina ahead of corporate profits.

Community Improvement
7
Pacific Historic Parks

To support the national park service and hawaii's department of land and natural resources, through research, preservation, restoration, fund development, education, and interpretive programs of world war ii in the pacific and other…

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8
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
9
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
10
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
11
Hawaii Public Television Foundation Dba Pbs Hawaii

The mission of pbs hawai'i is to advance learning and discovery by sharing stories that profoundly touch lives. we bring the world to hawai'i and hawai'i to the world.

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Hawai'i Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Central Pacific Bank Foundation. 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

44 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. 44 of the 66 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
35/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $343,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC+6 more: $29,090 · Health+6 moreHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $300,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+2 more: $1,300 · PhilanthropyHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $187,800 · AnimalsHAWAIIAN HUMANE SO…INSTITUE FOR HUMAN SERVICES: $10,000 · OtherINSTITUE FOR…FRIENDS OF WAIKIKI AQUARIUM: $8,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF W…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $7,500 · OtherTHE NATURE C…HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $7,000 · OtherHAWAII PUBLI…Individual grant recipient: $7,000 · OtherIndividual g…Individual grant recipient: $6,500 · OtherDOCTORS WO BORDERS USA: $5,000 · OtherIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $20,000 · OtherIHS THE INST…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU: $5,000 · Other+31 more: $46,350 · Other+31 moreHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $34,000 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII AG AND CULINARY ALLIANCE: $5,000 · Food & NutritionNA KAMA KAI: $25,000 · EnvironmentTHE OUTDOOR CIRCLE: $19,000 · EnvironmentHISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION: $8,000 · Arts & CultureMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $6,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBISHOP MUSEUM: $5,000 · Arts & CultureKIMOKEO FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $3,740 · Arts & CulturePEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,800 · Arts & Culture
Health$372,090Philanthropy$301,300Animals$187,800Other$122,850Food & Nutrition$54,000Environment$44,000Arts & Culture$39,540

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $343,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $187,800 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $34,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNA KAMA KAI: $25,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OUTDOOR CIRCLE: $19,000 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII AG AND CULINARY ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU: $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY REACH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBISHOP MUSEUM: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIMOKEO FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $3,740 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OAHU: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FILIPINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS HAWAII: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS HAWAII: $1,590 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS HAWAII INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREALTORS ASSOCIATION OF MAUI COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-ALOHA COUNCIL #104: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC BUDDHIST ACADEMY: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PACIFIC BANK FOUNDATION: $300 over 3y, 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.

First Insurance Compa…J Watumull FundThe Harry and Jeanett…Tradewind Group Found…Aloha United Way IncAtherton Family Found…The Queen's Medical C…Central Pacific Bank …Finance Factors Found…Locations FoundationFirst Hawaiian Bank F…The Strong Foundation
First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable FoundationHI40.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · J Watumull Fund · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Tradewind Group Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · Atherton Family Foundation · The Queen's Medical Center · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Finance Factors Foundation · Locations Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · The Strong 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 Armstrong Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Armstrong Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%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
    1get no government money at all
    12report 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.

    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 66 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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