· Private foundation
Louise & Yt Lum Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $86k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| APPRAISAL INST ED TRUST | $15,350 |
| HAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION | $14,737 |
| ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE FOUND OF HI | $10,600 |
| MANOA HERITAGE CENTER | $10,000 |
| PALAMA SETTLEMENT | $10,000 |
| ALL ROADS | $10,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL UNION CHURCH | $5,000 |
| PUNAHOU SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HAWAII FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PUNAHOU SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE TCHEREPNIN SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| YMCA OF HONOLULU | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Louise & Yt Lum Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 61% of the giving stays in HI; by stated purpose, 57%.
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 +46% since the first grant, against -53% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PSPUNAHOU SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $96k · revenue +40%
- HYHAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION5× · 2021–2025 · $55k · revenue +52%
- MHMANOA HERITAGE CENTER FKA MANOA VALLEY CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUND5× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HAWAIIone grant, 2021 · $22k
- SFStraub Foundationone grant, 2022 · $100 · revenue -53%
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.
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How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 30 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
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 PUNAHOU SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MANOA HERITAGE CENTER FKA MANOA VALLEY CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUND ↗
- Who funds BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PALAMA SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU ↗
- Who funds 'IOLANI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SUI WAH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BAMBOO RIDGE PRESS ↗
- Who funds COUNSELORS OF REAL ESTATE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation ↗
- Who funds Straub Foundation ↗
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: J Watumull Fund · Tradewind Group Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · Castiglione A Casauria Foundation · McInerny Foundation-- · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Kosasa Foundation · Hung Wo and Elizabeth Lau Ching Foundation · Patrick and Kris Kobayashi Foundation · C Q Yee Hop Foundation · The Dods Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Louise & Yt Lum Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louise & Yt Lum Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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