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Iwamoto Family Foundation at a glance

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Iwamoto 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.

$250k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$215kHealth$175kCivil Rights$159kEducation$95kArts & Culture$80kPhilanthropy$72kHuman Services$68kYouth Development$27kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $145k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KIPUKA KULEANA$75,000
SPILL THE TEA CAFE$70,000
HAWAII HEALTH AND HARM REDUCTION CE$30,000
HOOLA NA PUA$25,000
PARTNERS IN CARE$20,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO$10,000
KUMU KAHUA THEATRE$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $38k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HAWAII PEOPLES FUND: $26k → 9%HAWAII PEOPLES FUND: $12k → 9%HAWAII PEOPLES FUND: $1k → 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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$571k · 18 repeat orgs$284k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +100% since the first grant, against +49% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
17

Total granted

$571k
$114k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+100%
+49%

Still filing today

61%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentCivil RightsArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2020 · $90k · revenue +56%
  • HA
    HAWAII ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION
    2× · 2018–2022 · $60k · revenue +216%
  • SG
    SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $40k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • ZW
    ZERO WASTE HAWAII
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -42%
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +109%
  • MK
    MALAMA KAUAIgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +39%
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
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
2
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
3
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
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4
Hiikua a Hiialo Cultural Foundation
Arts & Culture
5
Malama Kua Aina
Environment
6
Huliauapaa

Growing hawaii's communities through culturally based forms of innovative learning, leadership development, and collaborative networking in wahi kupuna stewardship.

Environment
7
Hui Aloha Kiholo

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
9
Kukio Hoomana Fund

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…

Philanthropy
10
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
11
Hui Malama I Ke Ala Ulili

To re-establish the systems that sustain our community through educational initiatives and land-based practices that cultivate abundance, regenerate responsibilities, and promote collective health and well being.

Community Improvement
12
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Spill the Tea Cafe. 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

28 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. 28 of the 39 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
21/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIFE OF THE LAND HAWAII: $80,000 · OtherLIFE OF THE LAND HAWAIISPILL THE TEA CAFE: $70,000 · OtherSPILL THE TEA CAFEHAWAII HEALTH AND HARM REDUCTION CE: $50,000 · OtherHAWAII HEALTH AND HARM REDUCTION CEPARTNERS IN CARE: $35,000 · OtherPARTNERS IN CAREHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $30,000 · OtherHAWAII PUBLIC RADIOIndividual grant recipient: $29,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherNATIONAL CENTER FOR TRANSGENDER EQU: $15,000 · OtherRESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT: $20,000 · Other+14 more: $68,805 · Other+14 moreKipuka Kuleana Inc: $75,000 · EnvironmentKipuka Kuleana …ZERO WASTE HAWAII: $20,000 · EnvironmentZERO WASTE HAWA…THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $20,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR P…MALAMA KAUAI: $10,000 · EnvironmentMALAMA KAUAISEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesSEVENTH GENE…THE PEOPLE'S FUND: $38,043 · Human ServicesTHE PEOPLE'S…HO'OLA NA PUA: $25,000 · Human ServicesHO'OLA NA PU…+1 more: $250 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $90,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …HAWAII CHILDREN'S ACTION NETWORK: $5,000 · EducationHAWAII ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION: $60,000 · Community ImprovementHAWAII ALL…KUMU KAHUA THEATRE INC: $29,500 · Community ImprovementKUMU KAHUA…HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $71,883 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsHAWAII COMMUNITY BAIL FUND: $10,000 · Civil RightsHAWAI'I LGBT LEGACY FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Civil Rights
Other$417,805Environment$125,000Human Services$103,293Education$95,000Community Improvement$89,500Philanthropy$71,883Civil Rights$23,500

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKipuka Kuleana Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $71,883 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPILL THE TEA CAFE: $70,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetHAWAII ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION: $60,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PEOPLE'S FUND: $38,043 over 3y, 14% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKUMU KAHUA THEATRE INC: $29,500 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetZERO WASTE HAWAII: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetRESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT: $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALAMA KAUAI: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY BAIL FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPURPLE MAIA FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII CHILDREN'S ACTION NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Lavender Clinic: $5,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAWAIAULU INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCenter for Food Safety: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHAWAI'I LGBT LEGACY FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHonolulu Civil Beat Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF HAWAI'I: $250 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.

Stupski FoundationAtherton Family Found…Frost Family Foundati…Cooke Foundation Limi…Kosasa FoundationThe Healy FoundationTrustees of the Estat…Padosi FoundationHawaii Visitors and C…AlohacareJ Watumull FundAloha United Way Inc
Stupski FoundationCA21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Stupski Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · Frost Family Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · Kosasa Foundation · The Healy Foundation · Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Padosi Foundation · Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau · Alohacare · J Watumull Fund · Aloha United Way Inc

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 Iwamoto Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Iwamoto 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Iwamoto Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Iwamoto Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 39 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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