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Mosher Galt Foundation at a glance

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Mosher Galt 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.

$3.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k7 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.0M
$200,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$216k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSETS SCHOOL$500,000
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$500,000
YMCA OF HONOLULU$500,000
LA PIETRA HAWAII SCHOOL FOR GIRLS$500,000
FOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS$200,000
CLEAN OCEAN ACTION$200,000
HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY$200,000
THE CONSERVATION FUND$200,000
MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING$100,000
ALOHA UNITED WAY$100,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST$100,000
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.

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Its 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 its 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
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.
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +35% for those 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
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

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU
    2× · 2022–2024 · $520k · revenue +58%
  • HP
    HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $305k · revenue +47%
  • HM
    HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART
    2× · 2021–2022 · $150k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • HS
    HANAHAUOLI SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +35%
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
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
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
5
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
6
Island Pacific Academy Inc

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

Education
7
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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8
University of Hawaii Foundation

To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.

Education
9
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
10
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
11
Kanu O Ka Aina Learning Ohana

Serving and perpetuating sustainable hawaiian communities through education with aloha.

Arts & Culture
12
Hawaii Education Institute
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hanahauoli School; 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 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. 15 of the 18 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL: $1,000,000 · OtherHANAHAUOLI SCHOOLNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $500,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONTHE HAWAII SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $500,000 · OtherTHE HAWAII SCHOOL FOR GIRLSMOTHERS 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 …CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC: $200,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN OCE…THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $200,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSE…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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HAWAII SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $500,000 over 1y, 11% 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 budgetCLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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
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.

J Watumull FundGeorge N Wilcox Gener…McInerny Foundation--First Hawaiian Bank F…Tradewind Group Found…Bank of Hawaii Charit…Chung Kun Ai Foundati…The Cades FoundationAtherton Family Found…Patrick and Kris Koba…Ac Kobayashi Family F…The Dods Foundation
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

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 Mosher Galt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mosher Galt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's 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, 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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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