· Private foundation
Hazel H Takumi 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
92% of Hazel H Takumi Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Hawaii Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 25 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Hazel H Takumi Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 26 organizations, $35k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAWAII FOODBANK INC | $8,000 |
| HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,250 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII | $1,000 |
| HAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| ALOHA UNITED WAY | $1,000 |
| PALAMA SETTLEMENT | $1,000 |
| HELP UNDERSTANDING & GROUP SUPPORT (HUGS) | $1,000 |
| KAMAAINA CARE INC DBA KAMAAINA KIDS | $1,000 |
| LANAKILA PACIFIC | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HAWAIIAN ISLAND MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,000 |
| CENTER FOR TOMORROW'S LEADERS | $750 |
| KEIKI O KA AINA FAMILY LEARNING CENTERS | $750 |
| LUNALILO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $750 |
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 (FY17–23, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +30% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- HFHAWAII FOODBANK INC7× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +100%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +56%
- HYHAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- FOFriends of the Library of Hawaiione grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +8%
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.
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
The mission of hawai'i public radio is to serve the people of hawai'i by informing with essential news, inspiring through the power of music and the arts, and connecting through conversations and convenings.
The kuki'o ho'omana fund seeks to uplift and enrich our hawai'i island community through intentional investments in curated local organizations focusing on youth empowerment, affordable housing, environmental preservation, cultural…
Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance the cultural and natural landscape of the kiholo bay area through collaborative management and active community stewardship.
To restore, renovate & operate the hawaii theatre as a leading performance center in downtown honolulu.
The mission of the aloha theatre is to enrich the lives of hawaii residents and visitors by providing quality live theatre, performing arts education, and a venue for artistic expression.
The hawaii workers center envisions a hawaii in which all workers are empowered to exercise their right to organize for their social, economic and political well-being.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Hawaii Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bamboo Ridge Press. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 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.
30 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. 30 of the 48 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 HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds PALAMA SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds LANAKILA PACIFIC ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds BALLET HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE ↗
- Who funds MOILIILI COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TOMORROW'S LEADERS ↗
- Who funds GO FOR BROKE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus ↗
- Who funds KALAKAUA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KUMU KAHUA THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN ISLANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII CAT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds BAMBOO RIDGE PRESS ↗
- Who funds 442ND LEGACY CENTER ↗
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: Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Aloha United Way Inc · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Atherton Family Foundation · McInerny Foundation-- · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · The Cades Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Kosasa 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 Hazel H Takumi 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.
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.
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