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Grace and Richard Okita Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$60k
Granted FY2023
12
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202023.

Education$142kAnimals$36kArts & Culture$16kHealth$8kScience & Tech$4kRecreation & Sports$1kEnvironment$1kPhilanthropy$125Other$0
02FY2023 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k8 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$885k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$10,000
SAINT LOUIS SCHOOL$10,000
SACRED HEARTS ACADEMY$10,000
DAMIEN MEMORIAL SCHOOL$10,000
ASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII$5,000
HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY$3,000
CANINE COMPANIONS$2,500
CABRILLO HIGH SCHOOL AQUARIUM$2,500
FRIENDS-HAWAII VOLCANOES NATL PARK$2,500
REHAB FOUNDATION$2,500
EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION$1,000
PEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CANINE COMPANIONS: $2k → 11%CANINE COMPANIONS: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
WI
OR
OH
NJ
CA
KY
VA
TN
DC
HI

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$199k · 14 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
13

Total granted

$199k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+75%

Still filing today

64%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue +11%
  • ASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII
    4× · 2020–2023 · $14k · revenue +74%
  • HH
    HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY
    3× · 2021–2023 · $8k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • IF
    IEEE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • CH
    CABRILLO HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

2
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

3
American Geophysical Union

Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…

Science & Tech
4
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
5
The Aopa Foundation Inc

See schedule oto promote, advance and encourage aviation and airport safety and security and the research and testing in the support thereof; to educate the public and users of the national air transportation system to the value and…

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Hawaii State Teachers Association

Served hsta members as their exclusive collective bargaining agent,administered members' contract negotiations with the state of hawaiiconcerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, fringe benefits, hoursand other employment conditions.

7
Hawaii Pacific University

Hawaii pacific university is an international learning community set in the rich cultural context of hawaii. students from around the world join us for an american education built on a liberal arts foundation. our innovative undergraduate…

Education
8
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

9
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

10
American Society of Anesthesiologists

Advancing the practice and securing the future of anesthesiology through medical education, creation and dissemination of new knowledge, improvement of patient care, and legislative and regulatory advocacy.

11
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

12
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaiian Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Straub 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
13/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAINT LOUIS SCHOOL — $35,000 · OtherSAINT LOUIS SCHOOLTHE CONGREGATION OF CHRISTIAN BROTHERS OF HAWAII INC — $34,000 · OtherTHE CONGREGATION OF CHRISTIAN BROTHERS OF HAWAII INCSACRED HEARTS ACADEMY — $34,000 · OtherSACRED HEARTS ACADEMYIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCABRILLO HIGH SCHOOL AQUARIUM — $4,500 · Other+10 more — $12,375 · Other+10 moreUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASH…AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION — $4,000 · EducationAIR & SPACE FORCES…IEEE FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 · EducationTHE TAU BETA PI ASSOCIATION INC — $1,500 · EducationASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII — $13,500 · AnimalsASSISTANCE …HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $8,000 · AnimalsHAWAIIAN HU…PEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM — $6,100 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK — $5,500 · Arts & CultureEAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation — $8,000 · Health+1 more — $100 · HealthCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $8,000 · Human Services
Other$129,875Education$37,000Animals$21,500Arts & Culture$16,600Health$8,100Human Services$8,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII — $13,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation — $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM — $6,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK — $5,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIEEE FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStraub Foundation — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII
  • Who funds HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY
  • Who funds Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation
  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC
  • Who funds PEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK
  • Who funds EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds IEEE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE TAU BETA PI ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds Disabled American Veterans
  • Who funds Straub Foundation

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.

J Watumull FundHI15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J Watumull Fund · Aloha United Way Inc · Atherton Family Foundation · The Strong Foundation · McInerny Foundation-- · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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 Grace and Richard Okita 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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