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T 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 $10k43 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Holomua Collective | $25,000 |
| Hawaii Foodbank | $16,000 |
| Mid-Pac Institute | $6,500 |
| Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $6,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| City of Hope | $5,100 |
| Lahaina Jodo Mission | $5,000 |
| Straub Foundation | $5,000 |
| San Francisco Japan Town Foundation | $5,000 |
| Shriners Hospital for Children | $4,500 |
| YMCA of Honolulu | $4,000 |
| Hawaii Public Radio | $3,000 |
| Mercy Ships | $3,000 |
| Stanford University | $2,500 |
| Teach for America | $2,400 |
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 (FY17–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +17% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 19 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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- KHKAMP HAWAII INC7× · 2017–2024 · $82k · revenue +6%
- JCJAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII4× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +1%
- TSTHE SAN FRANCISCO JAPANTOWN FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- TATanforan Assembly Center Memorial Committeeone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -99%
- HCHAWAII COMMUNITY TELEVISIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
- SFScholarship Foundation of The Pacone grant, 2022 · $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.
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…
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.
The mission of the corporation shall be to work with partners to protect and restore native ecosystems and watersheds, to improve the quality and quantity of freshwater resources to perpetuate hawaiian cultural resources and practices, to…
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
To preserve, restore, interpret, share, and celebrate the unique cultural, historical, and spiritual qualities of `iolani palace and its grounds for the benefit of native hawaiians, the people of hawai`i, and the world.
The hawaiian humane society works to improve the welfare of animals through animal care, education, legislation, and prevention on the island of oahu. its mission is to promote the human-animal bond and the humane treatment of all animals.
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…
To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of the healthcare association of hawaii is to be hawaii's most effective advocate for the comprehensive and financially strong healthcare system that successfully responds to the diverse and changing needs of all we serve.
The mission of keiki o ka 'aina family learning centers (koka-flc) is to build strong communities by building strong families through communicating the vital importance of education, advocating for literacy, supporting parents as their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 10% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 81 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 KAMP HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HOLOMUA COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO JAPANTOWN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds Straub Foundation ↗
- Who funds Tanforan Assembly Center Memorial Committee ↗
- Who funds BISHOP MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOT INSTITUTE OF HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUNAHOU SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HAWAII THEATRE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENSHO ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-ALOHA COUNCIL #104 ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
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: J Watumull Fund · Atherton Family Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Castiglione A Casauria Foundation · Finance Factors Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Kosasa Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · 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 T 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.
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