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Richard M Towill Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$66k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
29%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 24
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.1M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Richard M Towill Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$65k56%
FY20237$48k29%
FY20224$46k25%
FY20216$35k50%
FY20204$40k50%
FY201915$87k53%
FY201821$69k33%
FY201724$77kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$260kEnvironment$48kPhilanthropy$30kYouth Development$23kHuman Services$22kArts & Culture$16kPublic Benefit$14kCrime & Legal$9kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Richard M Towill Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hanahauoli School$123,50080%
Punahou School$90,00070%
Aloha United Way Inc$30,00030%
Boys & Girls Club of Hawaii$17,20030%
Kualoa-Heeia Ecumenical Youth Project$10,20030%
Hika'Alani Fka Naonealaa$8,25034%
Blue Planet Foundation$8,00020%
Bishop Museum$6,98420%
Child and Family Service$6,44230%
American Heart Association Inc$6,13830%
Polynesian Voyaging Society$5,00010%
Hawaiian Civic Club of Honolulu$3,0001n/a
Paepae O He'Eia$2,50010%
Japan-America Society of Hawaii$1,65010%
Kupu$1,50010%
Hawaii Public Television Foundation Dba Pbs Hawaii$1,0001n/a
Teach for America Inc$1,00010%
The Friends of Iolani Palace$1,00010%
The Queen's Medical Center$93420%
Hawaii State Bar Foundation$64120%
Hale Kipa Inc$53810%
Hawaii Academy of Science$50010%
Kailua Hawaiian Civic Club$2501n/a
Hawaii Public Radio$16220%

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($140k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Richard M Towill Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHanahauoli School: $123,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPunahou School: $90,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAloha United Way Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Hawaii: $17,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKualoa-Heeia Ecumenical Youth Project: $10,200 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHika'Alani Fka Naonealaa: $8,250 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetBlue Planet Foundation: $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBishop Museum: $6,984 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChild and Family Service: $6,442 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $6,138 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPolynesian Voyaging Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPaepae O He'Eia: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJapan-America Society of Hawaii: $1,650 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKupu: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Friends of Iolani Palace: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Queen's Medical Center: $934 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHawaii State Bar Foundation: $641 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHale Kipa Inc: $538 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHawaii Academy of Science: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHawaii Public Radio: $162 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

Bank of Hawaii Charitable FdnHI26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Tradewind Group Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Atherton Family Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · The Queen's Medical Center · Aloha United Way Inc · The Kenneth and Diane Matsuura Foundation · Harold Kl Castle Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc

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.

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About Richard M Towill Family Foundation

How much does Richard M Towill Family Foundation give?
Richard M Towill Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $66,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Richard M Towill Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (52%), Environment (9%), Philanthropy (6%).
Who are Richard M Towill Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hanahauoli School ($124k), Punahou School ($90k), Aloha United Way Inc ($30k).
Does Richard M Towill Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Richard M Towill Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Richard M Towill Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn, Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools, Tradewind Group Foundation.
Where is Richard M Towill Family Foundation based?
Richard M Towill Family Foundation is based in HI.

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 53 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.

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