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Lawrence S and Carolyn H Okinaga Foundation at a glance

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Lawrence S and Carolyn H Okinaga Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$68k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$43k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$170kEducation$149kReligion$70kYouth Development$35kHuman Services$21kHousing & Shelter$20kPhilanthropy$8kRecreation & Sports$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$698k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN JUDICATURE SOCIETY$42,500
FUND FOR THE PACIFIC CENTURY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$7,500
IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC$5,000
NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS HAWAII$2,500
HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS$500
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HALE KIPA: $2k → 9%MOILIILI COMMUNITY CENTER: $4k → 9%MOILIILI COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 9%Moiliili Community Center: $2k → 9%MOILIILI COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 9%MOILIILI COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 9%MOILIILI COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 9%HALE KIPA: $3k → 9%MOILIILI COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 9%HALE KIPA: $1k → 9%MOILIILI COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 9%HALE KIPA: $1k → 9%HALE KIPA: $500 → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $500 → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $250 → 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

ME
NY
MA
CT
CA
KY
DC
HI
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$435k · 20 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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20

Total granted

$435k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+23%

Still filing today

80%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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

  • AJ
    AMERICAN JUDICATURE SOCIETY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $168k · revenue +132% · 30% of their budget
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2021 · $46k · revenue +44%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • GU
    GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • GU
    GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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
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
2
Hawaii Medical Association

Hawaii medical association is dedicated to serving physicians, their patients and community through representation, advocacy, and public service. core activities: advocacy, education

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3
Kaua'i Medical Clinic

Kaua'i medical clinic, an affliate of hawai'i pacific health, is a multi-specialty clinic dedicated to providing world-class care for adults and children across hawai'i and the pacific region in partnership with kapi'olani medical center…

Health
4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
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
6
Hawaii Education Institute
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7
Hawaii Public Television Foundation Dba Pbs Hawaii

The mission of pbs hawai'i is to advance learning and discovery by sharing stories that profoundly touch lives. we bring the world to hawai'i and hawai'i to the world.

Arts & Culture
8
Honolulu Museum of Art

To create relevant and transformative experiences through the study, preservation, presentation and creation of art.

Arts & Culture
9
Hawaii Association of Independent Schools

The hawai'i association of independent schools (hais) advocates on behalf of independent education in hawaii, provides services that strengthen individual schools and engages them to achieve educational quality and excellence for all…

Education
10
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.

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11
'Iolani School

To develop educated, well-rounded individuals who are well prepared for college.

Education
12
Hawaiian Historical Society

The society is dedicated to preserving historical materials relating to hawaii, and to publishing scholarly research on hawaiian history so present and future peoples throughout the world will recognize and appreciate the history. the…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Brookings Institution. 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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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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

AMERICAN JUDICATURE SOCIETY: $167,500 · OtherAMERICAN JUDICATURE SOCIETYMANOA VALLEY CHURCH: $70,000 · OtherMANOA VALLEY CHURCHFAMILY PROGRAMS HAWAII: $28,000 · OtherFAMILY PROGRAMS HAWAIIGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI FUND: $20,000 · OtherGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI FUND+21 more: $40,100 · Other+21 moreGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $45,500 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $37,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUN…FUND FOR THE PACIFIC CENTURY: $10,000 · EducationFUND FOR THE PACIFIC CENT…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $8,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF …PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $7,000 · EducationPUNAHOU SCHOOL+3 more: $7,100 · Education+3 moreMOILIILI COMMUNITY CENTER: $19,250 · Human ServicesHALE KIPA INC: $6,500 · Human Services+1 more: $750 · Human ServicesIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $6,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionALOHA UNITED WAY INC: $2,650 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyJAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII: $2,000 · Arts & CultureBISHOP MUSEUM: $1,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED JAPANESE SOCIETY OF HAWAII: $250 · Arts & Culture
Other$325,600Education$115,100Human Services$26,500Housing & Shelter$20,000Food & Nutrition$7,000Philanthropy$5,150Arts & Culture$3,250

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 budgetAMERICAN JUDICATURE SOCIETY: $167,500 over 6y, 30% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $45,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $37,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROGRAMS HAWAII: $28,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOILIILI COMMUNITY CENTER: $19,250 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHALE KIPA INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALOHA UNITED WAY INC: $2,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII STATE BAR FOUNDATION: $1,450 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBISHOP MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUS- JAPAN COUNCIL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $50 over 1y, 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.

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.

Central Pacific Bank …First Insurance Compa…Tradewind Group Found…Aloha United Way IncBank of Hawaii Charit…J Watumull FundThe Harry and Jeanett…Peter G Drewliner Fou…Armstrong FoundationThe Queen's Medical C…Atherton Family Found…Dr Arthur & Bonnie En…
Central Pacific Bank FoundationHI24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Pacific Bank Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · J Watumull Fund · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Peter G Drewliner Foundation · Armstrong Foundation · The Queen's Medical Center · Atherton Family Foundation · Dr Arthur & Bonnie Ennis 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 Lawrence S and Carolyn H Okinaga Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lawrence S and Carolyn H Okinaga Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Lawrence S and Carolyn H Okinaga 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 44 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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