· Private foundation
Patrick and Kris Kobayashi 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $22,000 |
| HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| STRAUB FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $2,500 |
| MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE | $1,250 |
| KAPIOLANI HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| PUNAHOU SCHOOL | $100 |
| IOLANI SCHOOL | $100 |
| LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY | $100 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $800) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MIMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $166k · revenue +33%
- HSHANAHAUOLI SCHOOL7× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +99%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- KFKAUAKOKO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +10%
- SLSAINT LOUIS SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $1k
- KHKAPIOLANI HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
To provide exceptional learning opportunities in a diverse community honoring the traditions of hawaii. see schedule o.
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…
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…
Preserve niihau cultural values and language.
The mission of pali momi foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.
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…
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.
Scholarships and awards are granted to the hualalai community employees, their spouses, and their children. medical awards cover expenses incurred beyond medical insurance, and educational scholarships are for preschool through college,…
To create relevant and transformative experiences through the study, preservation, presentation and creation of art.
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Pacific University and the most unlike its peers is The Nature Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 58 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 25 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Kapi'olani Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds Straub Foundation ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MANOA HERITAGE CENTER FKA MANOA VALLEY CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUND ↗
- Who funds PUNAHOU SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds KAUAKOKO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 'IOLANI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PALOLO CHINESE HOME ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Tradewind Group Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Atherton Family Foundation · McInerny Foundation-- · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Castiglione A Casauria Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · The Cades Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Chung Kun Ai Foundation · Ac Kobayashi Family 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 Patrick and Kris Kobayashi 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.
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
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.
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