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J Watumull Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$684k
Granted FY2024still arriving
275
Grants FY2024still arriving
25
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$716kHuman Services$515kArts & Culture$461kInternational$415kPhilanthropy$338kHealth$264kFood & Nutrition$248kHousing & Shelter$182kOther$0
02FY2024 · 275 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k263 grants · $489k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,000
Median grant
25
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KAPIOLANI WOMEN AND CHILDREN'S CENT$50,000
HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
WATUMULL FAMILY CHILDREN'S FUND$20,000
MIRACLE FOUNDATION$10,000
STRAUB FOUNDATION$10,000
ALOHA UNITED WAY$10,000
WATUMULL CHILDRENS FUND$10,000
THE MIRACLE FOUNDATION$10,000
ALOHA UNITED WAY$10,000
BISHOP MUSEUM PLANETARIUM ENDOWMENT$10,000
THE PANTRY BY FEEDING HAWAII TOGETH$10,000
HAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL$7,500
TEACH FOR AMERICA$6,000
MARY STAR OF THE SEA$5,000
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 (FY19–24, $199k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 8%AIM FOR SEVA: $2k → 12%AIM FOR SEVA: $2k → 12%KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $3k → 9%WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 8%ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA: $2k → 12%WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 8%KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 9%WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 8%WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 8%KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 9%KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 9%KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 9%KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $2k → 9%HALE KIPA: $2k → 9%HALE KIPA: $2k → 9%HALE KIPA: $2k → 9%LANAKILA PACIFIC: $3k → 9%LANAKILA PACIFIC FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%LANAKILA PACIFIC: $3k → 9%LANAKILA PACIFIC FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%LANAKILA PACIFIC FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $2k → 9%NAVIAN HAWAII: $2k → 9%NAVIAN HAWAII: $2k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $2k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $2k → 9%HOSPICE HAWAII: $2k → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $10k → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $10k → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $10k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $2k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $2k → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $2k → 9%PALOLO CHINESE HOME: $2k → 9%PALOLO CHINESE HOME: $2k → 9%PALOLO CHINESE HOME: $2k → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $2k → 9%PALOLO CHINESE HOME: $2k → 9%AFTER SCHOOL ALL STARS: $2k → 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

VT
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NJ
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GA
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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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 265 repeat orgs$648k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

265 repeat relationships: 164 still active in FY2024, 101 since wound down; 91 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

265
199

Total granted

$3.2M
$424k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+20%

Still filing today

58%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $224k 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
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • TM
    THE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $117k · revenue +42%
  • IT
    IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $86k · revenue +47%
  • HN
    HO'OLA NA PUA
    6× · 2019–2024 · $81k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • AU
    ALOHA UNITED WAY-ALICE PROGRAM
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • HE
    HAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVE
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -31%
  • GI
    GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF HAWAII INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +26%
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
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

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

Human Services
2
Papahana Kuaola

Papahana kuaola's mission is to create quality educational programs focused on environmental restoration and economic sustainability fully integrated with hawaiian knowledge in order to exemplify a lifestyle respectful of kanaka, `aina,…

Environment
3
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
4
Hawaii Education Institute
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5
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
6
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
7
Mohala Pua School Dba Honolulu Waldorf School

See schedule o.at honolulu waldorf school, we educate each child to find meaning, passion, and purpose in life and to contribute to the creation of a better world for all. through a curriculum based on the developmental stages of the human…

Education
8
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
9
Kanu O Ka Aina Learning Ohana

Serving and perpetuating sustainable hawaiian communities through education with aloha.

Arts & Culture
10
Lai Hauola

To preserve the immediate and long-term health and wellbeing of lahaina's diverse communities and precious natural resources.

Food & Nutrition
11
Hawaii Island Community Development Corporation

Hawaii island community development corporation was established on july 7, 1986, to provide families with low and moderate income with adequate housing and to acquire, construct and provide housing related activities.

Housing & Shelter
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners in Development Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo. 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

222 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. 222 of the 559 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)
42
Early backer (in before they grew)
217/222
Grantees still filing
143/222
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALOHA UNITED WAY-ALICE PROGRAM: $50,000 · OtherKAPIOLANI WOMEN AND CHILDREN'S CENT: $50,000 · OtherHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $73,000 · OtherIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $85,500 · OtherIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC+115 more: $1,130,000 · Other+115 moreWATUMULL FAMILY CHILDRENS FUND: $215,500 · InternationalWATUMULL FAM…LOVE NEVER FAILS INTERNATIONAL INC: $45,000 · InternationalLOVE NEVER F…SEVA FOUNDATION: $18,000 · International+10 more: $82,000 · International+10 moreHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $115,500 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU MUS…BISHOP MUSEUM: $60,000 · Arts & CultureBISHOP MUSEU…HAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: $39,500 · Arts & CultureHAWAII INTER…HONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH: $18,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII THEATRE CENTER: $14,500 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATION: $14,000 · Arts & Culture+13 more: $89,500 · Arts & Culture+13 moreALOHA UNITED WAY INC: $260,000 · PhilanthropyALOHA UNIT…KAUAI UNITED WAY: $14,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $14,000 · PhilanthropyHO'OLA NA PUA: $81,000 · Human ServicesHO'OLA NA …CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $37,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC C…FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $30,000 · Human ServicesFEEDING HA…WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC: $21,000 · Human ServicesWIDE HORIZ…WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $14,000 · Human ServicesKAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $13,000 · Human ServicesAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $12,000 · Human ServicesHALE KIPA INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S FUND OF HAWAI'I: $11,000 · Human ServicesLANAKILA PACIFIC FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human Services+7 more: $47,000 · Human Services+7 moreTHE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC: $117,000 · HealthTHE MIRACL…Straub Foundation: $50,000 · HealthStraub Fou…PROJECT VISION HAWAII: $18,000 · HealthPROJECT VI…WAIKIKI HEALTH: $16,000 · HealthWAIKIKI HE…PARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER: $15,000 · HealthRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation: $12,000 · HealthKapi'olani Health Foundation: $10,000 · HealthKIDS HURT TOO HAWAII: $10,000 · Health+6 more: $38,000 · Health+6 moreISLAND PACIFIC ACADEMY INC: $45,000 · EducationCHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU: $42,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $35,500 · EducationPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $30,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $26,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION: $12,000 · Education+8 more: $50,000 · Education
Other$1,388,500International$360,500Arts & Culture$351,000Philanthropy$288,000Human Services$288,000Health$286,000Education$241,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetALOHA UNITED WAY INC: $260,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWATUMULL FAMILY CHILDRENS FUND: $215,500 over 6y, 16% of budgetTHE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC: $117,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $115,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $85,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA: $81,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $73,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBISHOP MUSEUM: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetStraub Foundation: $50,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetISLAND PACIFIC ACADEMY INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE NEVER FAILS INTERNATIONAL INC: $45,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetCHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU: $42,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: $39,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $37,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $35,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHANAHAUOLI SCHOOL: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $29,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHomeAid Hawaii: $24,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC: $21,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII: $20,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH: $18,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetACHIEVE ZERO: $18,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSEVA FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHUI MAHIAI AINA: $18,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetPROJECT VISION HAWAII: $18,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWAIKIKI HEALTH: $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHAWAII THEATRE CENTER: $14,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $14,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKAUAI UNITED WAY: $14,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetGRASSROOT INSTITUTE OF HAWAII INC: $14,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetKAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $13,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetHAWAII NATURE CENTER INC: $12,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetALOHA HARVEST: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPALAMA SETTLEMENT: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHALE KIPA INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDIAMOND HEAD THEATRE: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation: $12,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetADULT FRIENDS FOR YOUTH: $11,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $11,000 over 6y, 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.

  • Who funds ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds WATUMULL FAMILY CHILDRENS FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds HO'OLA NA PUA ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
  • Who funds BISHOP MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Straub Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ISLAND PACIFIC ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds LOVE NEVER FAILS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER ↗
  • Who funds PUNAHOU SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds HomeAid Hawaii ↗
  • Who funds WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds HONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds ACHIEVE ZERO ↗
  • Who funds SEVA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HUI MAHIAI AINA ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT VISION HAWAII ↗

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.

Aloha United Way IncHI160.6× affinity82 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aloha United Way Inc · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Atherton Family Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · McInerny Foundation-- · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Kosasa Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Clarence Tc Ching 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 J Watumull Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J Watumull Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Oxford House Inc: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
48report 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

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How do I get to J Watumull Fund?

Find your warmest path to J Watumull Fund 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 559 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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