· Private foundation
J Watumull Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $224k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TMTHE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $117k · revenue +42%
- ITIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC6× · 2019–2024 · $86k · revenue +47%
- HNHO'OLA NA PUA6× · 2019–2024 · $81k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- AUALOHA UNITED WAY-ALICE PROGRAMone grant, 2021 · $50k
- HEHAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVEone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -31%
- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF HAWAII INCgraduatedone 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.
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.
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Serving and perpetuating sustainable hawaiian communities through education with aloha.
To preserve the immediate and long-term health and wellbeing of lahaina's diverse communities and precious natural resources.
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.
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…
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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.
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
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.
- 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
How this is measured
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