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Richard M Towill Family Foundation at a glance

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Richard M Towill Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$66k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% 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
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $56k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
NATURE CONSERVANCY$1,000
LANAI CULTURAL CENTER$1,000
ROTARY CLUB OF HAWAII$1,000
HAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE$500
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%KEY PROJECT: $5k → 9%KEY PROJECT: $3k → 9%PAEPAE O HE'EIA: $3k → 9%KEY PROJECT: $2k → 9%HALE KIPA: $538 → 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$389k · 18 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +35% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
29

Total granted

$389k
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+35%

Still filing today

72%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • HS
    HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $124k · revenue +99%
  • PS
    PUNAHOU SCHOOL
    7× · 2018–2024 · $90k · revenue +41%
  • AU
    ALOHA UNITED WAY INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • PV
    POLYNESIAN VOYAGING SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • HL
    HASTINGS LAW SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB - CENTENIAL PARK
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
2
Kula Aupuni Niihau a Kahelelani Aloha (Kanaka)

Preserve niihau cultural values and language.

Education
3
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
4
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
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
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
7
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
8
Hoala Kealakekua Nui Inc

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…

Environment
9
Hawaii Education Institute
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10
Hawaii Pacific University

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…

Education
11
Pohaku Pelemaka

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,…

Human Services
12
Hui Malama I Ke Ala Ulili

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.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hanahauoli School; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 53 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL: $123,500 · OtherHANAHAUOLI SCHOOLPAUAHI FOUNDATION: $60,000 · OtherPAUAHI FOUNDATIONTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $39,500 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII: $17,200 · Other+36 more: $95,022 · Other+36 morePUNAHOU SCHOOL: $90,000 · EducationPUNAHOU SCHOOLHIKA'ALANI FKA NAONEALAA: $8,250 · EducationHIKA'ALANI FKA NAONEAL…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationALOHA UNITED WAY INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyKUALOA-HEEIA ECUMENICAL YOUTH PROJECT: $10,200 · Human ServicesPAEPAE O HE'EIA: $2,500 · Human ServicesHALE KIPA INC: $538 · Human ServicesBISHOP MUSEUM: $6,984 · Arts & CulturePOLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII: $1,000 · Arts & CultureBLUE PLANET FOUNDATION: $8,000 · EnvironmentAmerican Heart Association Inc: $6,138 · HealthTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $934 · Health
Other$335,222Education$99,250Philanthropy$30,000Human Services$13,238Arts & Culture$12,984Environment$8,000Health$7,072

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 budgetHANAHAUOLI SCHOOL: $123,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $90,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $39,500 over 4y, 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
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.

  • 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 ↗
  • Who funds HALE KIPA INC ↗

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 Charit…Trustees of the Estat…Tradewind Group Found…J Watumull FundAtherton Family Found…First Insurance Compa…Central Pacific Bank …The Queen's Medical C…Aloha United Way IncThe Kenneth and Diane…Harold Kl Castle Foun…The Harry and Jeanett…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Richard M Towill Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard M Towill Family 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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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