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Robert E Black Memorial Trust

Provide support for the charitable & educational purposes & programs of the charitable organizations.

$2.8M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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70% of Robert E Black Memorial Trust’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Hawaii Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

10
’21
10
’22
10
’23
10
’24
10
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2025
$49,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,925,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 10
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$50M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Robert E Black Memorial Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY2025still arriving10$825k0%
FY202410$795k0%
FY202310$900k0%
FY202210$781k0%
FY202110$781kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$9.5MEducation$2.5MArts & Culture$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$245kHealth$204k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hawaii Pacific University$1,673,30060%
Bishop Museum$652,99261%
American Red Cross$244,8726n/a
Diamond Head Theatre$244,87261%
Hawaii Symphony Orchestra$244,87261%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$204,06850%
Hawaii Preparatory Academy$204,06868%
Saint Louis School$204,0686n/a
'Iolani School$204,06860%
Punahou School$204,06860%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert E Black Memorial Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHawaii Pacific University: $1,673,300 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBishop Museum: $652,992 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetDiamond Head Theatre: $244,872 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetHawaii Symphony Orchestra: $244,872 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $204,068 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHawaii Preparatory Academy: $204,068 over 6y, 8.5% of budget'Iolani School: $204,068 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPunahou School: $204,068 over 6y, 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 8.

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.

First Hawaiian Bank F…Atherton Family Found…McInerny Foundation--Tradewind Group Found…J Watumull FundBank of Hawaii Charit…Maurice and Joanna Su…The Cades FoundationThe Clarence Tc Ching…Kosasa FoundationFirst Insurance Compa…Aloha United Way Inc
First Hawaiian Bank FoundationHI20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · McInerny Foundation-- · Tradewind Group Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Maurice and Joanna Sullivan Family Foundation · The Cades Foundation · The Clarence Tc Ching Foundation · Kosasa Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Aloha United Way 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 Robert E Black Memorial Trust

How much does Robert E Black Memorial Trust give?
Robert E Black Memorial Trust reported 11 grants totaling $2,750,012 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 10 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Robert E Black Memorial Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (70%), Education (18%), Arts & Culture (8%).
Who are Robert E Black Memorial Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Hawaii Pacific University ($1.7M), Bishop Museum ($653k), American Red Cross ($245k).
Does Robert E Black Memorial Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Robert E Black Memorial Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Hawaiian Bank Foundation, Atherton Family Foundation, McInerny Foundation--.
Where is Robert E Black Memorial Trust based?
Robert E Black Memorial Trust 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 11 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 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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