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Patrick and Kris Kobayashi Foundation at a glance

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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.

$42k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$22k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$256kHealth$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kArts & Culture$6kEnvironment$1kRecreation & Sports$1kHuman Services$800Animals$500
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
$1,250
Median grant
3
States reached
$434k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
IOLANI SCHOOL$100
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY$100
PUNAHOU SCHOOL$100
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $500 → 9%PALOLO CHINESE HOME: $300 → 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$264k · 13 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
10

Total granted

$264k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+48%

Still filing today

85%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 ServicesHealthAnimalsOther
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

  • MI
    MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $166k · revenue +33%
  • HS
    HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +99%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • KF
    KAUAKOKO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +10%
  • SL
    SAINT LOUIS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • KH
    KAPIOLANI HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
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
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
2
Hawaii Preparatory Academy

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

Education
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
Hawaii Education Institute
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5
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
6
Kula Aupuni Niihau a Kahelelani Aloha (Kanaka)

Preserve niihau cultural values and language.

Education
7
Pali Momi Foundation

The mission of pali momi foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.

Health
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 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
10
Hualalai Ohana Foundation

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,…

Education
11
Honolulu Museum of Art

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

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Pacific University; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 25 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE: $165,700 · OtherMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTEHANAHAUOLI SCHOOL: $35,017 · OtherHANAHAUOLI SCHOOLAMERICAN RED CROSS: $12,500 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS+7 more: $7,300 · OtherGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $26,400 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSIT…THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $22,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE …HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · Education+4 more: $3,800 · Education+4 moreKapi'olani Health Foundation: $9,000 · HealthStraub Foundation: $5,200 · HealthMANOA HERITAGE CENTER FKA MANOA VALLEY CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUND: $2,000 · Arts & CultureKAUAKOKO FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $500 · Arts & CultureHELPING HANDS HAWAII: $500 · Human ServicesPALOLO CHINESE HOME: $300 · Human ServicesHONOLULU ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $500 · Animals
Other$220,517Education$54,200Health$14,200Arts & Culture$3,500Human Services$800Animals$500

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 budgetMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE: $165,700 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHANAHAUOLI SCHOOL: $35,017 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $26,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKapi'olani Health Foundation: $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetStraub Foundation: $5,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANOA HERITAGE CENTER FKA MANOA VALLEY CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUND: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $1,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF HAWAII: $1,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAUAKOKO FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget'IOLANI SCHOOL: $700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHONOLULU ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHELPING HANDS HAWAII: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALOLO CHINESE HOME: $300 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.

Tradewind Group Found…J Watumull FundBank of Hawaii Charit…Atherton Family Found…McInerny Foundation--First Hawaiian Bank F…Castiglione A Casauri…Aloha United Way IncThe Cades FoundationCentral Pacific Bank …Chung Kun Ai Foundati…Ac Kobayashi Family F…
Tradewind Group FoundationHI28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Patrick and Kris Kobayashi Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patrick and Kris Kobayashi Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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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How do I get to Patrick and Kris Kobayashi Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Patrick and Kris Kobayashi 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 25 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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