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The Garden Club of Honolulu

The purpose of THE GARDEN CLUB OF HONOLULU ("club") is to stimulate knowledge and love of gardening, horticulture, floral design and nature photography; and to promote and participate in the restoration, improvement and protection of the environment through programs and actions in conservation, civic improvement, and education.

$25k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
67%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$10k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 3
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$551k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations The Garden Club of Honolulu funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentArts & Culture
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 arriving1$10k100%
FY20243$21k67%
FY20223$23k100%
FY20212$33k100%
FY20193$33kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Environment$57kYouth Development$18kFood & Nutrition$15kEducation$14kHuman Services$10kArts & Culture$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of The Garden Club of Honolulu by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
After-School All-Stars Hawaii$18,00011%
Oahu Resource Conservation & Development$15,00012%
Alternative Structures International$15,00010%
University of Hawaii Foundation$13,55820%
National Tropical Botanical Garden$10,00010%
Hawaii Conservation Alliance Foundation$10,0001n/a
Ho'Ola Na Pua$10,00010%
Aloha Tree Alliance$10,00014%
Kona Historical Society$7,00012%
Merwin Conservancy Inc$6,00011%
Friends of Hawaiis Urban Forest$5,94013%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Garden Club of Honolulu supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAfter-School All-Stars Hawaii: $18,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOahu Resource Conservation & Development: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAlternative Structures International: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Hawaii Foundation: $13,558 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Tropical Botanical Garden: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHo'Ola Na Pua: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAloha Tree Alliance: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetKona Historical Society: $7,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMerwin Conservancy Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFriends of Hawaiis Urban Forest: $5,940 over 1y, 2.6% 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 10.

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.

Atherton Family FoundationHI15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atherton Family Foundation · Harold Kl Castle Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Garden Club of Honolulu

How much does The Garden Club of Honolulu give?
The Garden Club of Honolulu reported 1 itemized grants totaling $10,000, out of $24,521 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 3 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does The Garden Club of Honolulu fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (47%), Youth Development (15%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
Who are The Garden Club of Honolulu's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: After-School All-Stars Hawaii ($18k), Oahu Resource Conservation & Development ($15k), Alternative Structures International ($15k).
Does The Garden Club of Honolulu fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Garden Club of Honolulu?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Atherton Family Foundation, Harold Kl Castle Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Garden Club of Honolulu based?
The Garden Club of Honolulu 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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