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Robert E Black Memorial Trust at a glance

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Robert E Black Memorial Trust

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

$2.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

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.

01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $355k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $132k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.3M
$49,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,925,000
HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY$338,252
BISHOP MUSEUM$132,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$49,500
HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$49,500
DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE$49,500
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$41,252
IOLANI SCHOOL$41,252
ST LOUIS SCHOOL$41,252
HAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY$41,252
PUNAHOU SCHOOL$41,252
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $45k → 9%HAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $45k → 15%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $45k → 9%HAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $41k → 15%PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $41k → 9%HAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $40k → 15%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $41k → 9%HAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $39k → 15%PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $40k → 9%HAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $39k → 15%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $40k → 9%PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $39k → 9%BISHOP MUSEUM: $144k → 9%BISHOP MUSEUM: $132k → 9%BISHOP MUSEUM: $127k → 9%BISHOP MUSEUM: $125k → 9%BISHOP MUSEUM: $125k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $54k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $48k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $47k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $47k → 9%DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE: $54k → 9%HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $54k → 9%DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE: $50k → 9%HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $50k → 9%DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE: $48k → 9%HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $48k → 9%DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE: $47k → 9%DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE: $47k → 9%HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $47k → 9%HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $47k → 9%ST LOUIS SCHOOL: $45k → 9%ST LOUIS SCHOOL: $41k → 9%ST LOUIS SCHOOL: $40k → 9%IOLANI SCHOOL: $45k → 9%IOLANI SCHOOL: $41k → 9%IOLANI SCHOOL: $40k → 9%HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2.1M → 9%HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1.9M → 9%HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1.9M → 9%HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1.8M → 9%HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1.8M → 9%HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $369k → 9%HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $338k → 9%HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $326k → 9%HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $320k → 9%HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $320k → 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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 10 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
0

Total granted

$4.1M
$0

Still filing today

80%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • HP
    HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +47%
  • BM
    BISHOP MUSEUM
    6× · 2020–2025 · $653k · revenue +102%
  • HS
    HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $245k · revenue +8%

Funded once

    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
    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
    2
    Hawaii Medical Association

    Hawaii medical association is dedicated to serving physicians, their patients and community through representation, advocacy, and public service. core activities: advocacy, education

    —
    3
    Hawaii Education Institute
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    4
    Hawaii State Teachers Association

    Served hsta members as their exclusive collective bargaining agent,administered members' contract negotiations with the state of hawaiiconcerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, fringe benefits, hoursand other employment conditions.

    —
    5
    Kula Aupuni Niihau a Kahelelani Aloha (Kanaka)

    Preserve niihau cultural values and language.

    Education
    6
    E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
    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
    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
    9
    Hawaii Book and Music Festival
    Arts & Culture
    10
    Hawaii International Film Festival

    To foster international cultural awareness and understanding through the medium of film. to act as a creative pipeline for hawaii and the pacific, showcasing new and emerging talent from hawaii, asia, americas, europe, and the pacific…

    Arts & Culture
    11
    Chaminade University of Honolulu

    Chaminade university offers its students an education in a collaborative learning environment that prepares them for life, work and service. guided by its catholic, marianist and liberal arts educational traditions, chaminade encourages…

    Education
    12
    University of Hawaii Foundation

    To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.

    Education
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Pacific University; the most unlike its peers is Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders 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

    9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    0
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    9/9
    Grantees still filing
    8/9
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $9,522,800 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $1,673,300 · EducationHAWAII PACIFIC UNIV…HAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $204,068 · EducationHAWAII PREPARATORY …'IOLANI SCHOOL: $204,068 · Education'IOLANI SCHOOLPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $204,068 · EducationPUNAHOU SCHOOLBISHOP MUSEUM: $652,992 · Arts & CultureHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $244,872 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN RED CROSS: $244,872 · OtherDIAMOND HEAD THEATRE: $244,872 · OtherSAINT LOUIS SCHOOL: $204,068 · OtherALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $204,068 · Health
    Philanthropy$9,522,800Education$2,285,504Arts & Culture$897,864Other$693,812Health$204,068

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $9,522,800 over 6y, 1.5% of 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
    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 HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
    • Who funds HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
    • Who funds BISHOP MUSEUM ↗
    • Who funds DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE ↗
    • Who funds HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
    • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
    • Who funds HAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
    • Who funds 'IOLANI SCHOOL ↗
    • Who funds PUNAHOU SCHOOL ↗

    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.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Robert E Black Memorial Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert E Black Memorial Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
      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 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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