· Private foundation
Richard M Towill Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PAUAHI FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HANAHAU'OLI SCHOOL | $16,000 |
| PUNAHOU SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - HASTINGS COLLEGE OF LAW | $5,000 |
| HONOLULU ZOO SOCIETY | $1,700 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF HAWAII | $1,000 |
| LANAI CULTURAL CENTER | $1,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| HAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE | $500 |
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, $13k) 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- HSHANAHAUOLI SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $124k · revenue +99%
- PSPUNAHOU SCHOOL7× · 2018–2024 · $90k · revenue +41%
- AUALOHA UNITED WAY INC3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- PVPOLYNESIAN VOYAGING SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $10k
- HLHASTINGS LAW SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $10k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - HASTINGSone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
Preserve niihau cultural values and language.
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,…
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…
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…
Ho'ala kealakekua nui, inc. (hkn) is a native hawaiian-driven nonprofit corporation committed to implementing traditional methods of environmental stewardship and restoration, education and outreach, and cultural preservation at the wahi…
Hawaii pacific university is an international learning community set in the rich cultural context of hawaii. students from around the world join us for an american education built on a liberal arts foundation. our innovative undergraduate…
Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance: the intrinsic qualities of the lower puna area, native hawaiian wellbeing, and the transmission of intergenerational knowledge and practices in partnership with county, state, government,…
To re-establish the systems that sustain our community through educational initiatives and land-based practices that cultivate abundance, regenerate responsibilities, and promote collective health and well being.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hanahauoli School and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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 52 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.
23 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. 23 of the 53 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 HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PUNAHOU SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds KUALOA-HEEIA ECUMENICAL YOUTH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HIKA'ALANI FKA NAONEALAA ↗
- Who funds BLUE PLANET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BISHOP MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds POLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PAEPAE O HE'EIA ↗
- Who funds JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETY OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds KUPU ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE ↗
- Who funds THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAWAII STATE BAR FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 Richard M Towill Family 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.
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.