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Mosher Galt 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.

$3.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Education$2.4MEnvironment$900kHuman Services$545kFood & Nutrition$200kArts & Culture$150kHealth$100kCrime & Legal$100kPhilanthropy$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k7 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.0M
$200,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$194k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSETS SCHOOL$500,000
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$500,000
LA PIETRA HAWAII SCHOOL FOR GIRLS$500,000
YMCA OF HONOLULU$500,000
CLEAN OCEAN ACTION$200,000
HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY$200,000
THE CONSERVATION FUND$200,000
FOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS$200,000
MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING$100,000
ALOHA UNITED WAY$100,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST$100,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $720k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS: $200k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $500k → 9%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU: $20k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 8 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$1.2M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+35%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’24
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU
    2× · 2022–2024 · $520k · revenue +58%
  • HP
    HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $305k · revenue +47%
  • MI
    MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $65k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • HS
    HANAHAUOLI SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +35%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
Hawaii Preparatory Academy

To provide exceptional learning opportunities in a diverse community honoring the traditions of hawaii. see schedule o.

Education
3
Kula Aupuni Niihau a Kahelelani Aloha (Kanaka)

Preserve niihau cultural values and language.

Education
4
Island Pacific Academy Inc

Island pacific academy (ipa) is a k-12 independent, coed, college preparatory school

Education
5
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.

6
Kanu O Ka Aina Learning Ohana

Serving and perpetuating sustainable hawaiian communities through education with aloha.

Arts & Culture
7
Punahou School

In 2023, punahou revealed its renewed mission and values statement. it reads as follows: we are children of ka punahou, the new spring.from under the hala tree, we weave a mat that seats many, our home to dream and discover our purpose and…

Education
8
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
9
Hawaii Education Institute
10
Keiki O Ka 'Aina Preschool Inc

The mission of keiki o ka 'aina family learning centers (koka-flc) is to build strong communities by building strong families through communicating the vital importance of education, advocating for literacy, supporting parents as their…

Education
11
Uhiwai O Haleakala

The mission of the corporation shall be to work with partners to protect and restore native ecosystems and watersheds, to improve the quality and quantity of freshwater resources to perpetuate hawaiian cultural resources and practices, to…

Environment
12
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hanahauoli School and the most unlike its peers is Food Backpacks 4 Kids. 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

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL — $1,000,000 · OtherHANAHAUOLI SCHOOLTHE HAWAII SCHOOL FOR GIRLS — $500,000 · OtherTHE HAWAII SCHOOL FOR GIRLSNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $500,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONMOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING — $100,000 · Other+4 more — $180,000 · Other+4 moreASSETS SCHOOL — $500,000 · EducationASSETS SCHOOLHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY — $305,000 · EducationHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVE…'IOLANI SCHOOL — $45,000 · EducationYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU — $520,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRIS…FOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS — $200,000 · Human ServicesFOOD BACKPACKS 4 …THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $200,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSE…CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC — $200,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN OCE…HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART — $150,000 · Arts & CultureALOHA UNITED WAY INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY — $100,000 · Health
Other$2,280,000Education$850,000Human Services$720,000Environment$400,000Arts & Culture$150,000Philanthropy$100,000Health$100,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHANAHAUOLI SCHOOL — $1,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU — $520,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE HAWAII SCHOOL FOR GIRLS — $500,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASSETS SCHOOL — $500,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY — $305,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS — $200,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC — $200,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART — $150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetALOHA UNITED WAY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE — $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budget'IOLANI SCHOOL — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

J Watumull FundHI19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J Watumull Fund · George N Wilcox General Trust · McInerny Foundation-- · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Chung Kun Ai Foundation · The Cades Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · Patrick and Kris Kobayashi Foundation · Ac Kobayashi Family Foundation · The Dods Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Mosher Galt Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Mosher Galt Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mosher Galt 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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