How much did THE HONDA FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of THE HONDA FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

art

2019

lebanonjapanese

2020

cancerpacific

2021

rescue

2022

search rescue

2023

art

2024

groupeastpacificart

2025

los angeles

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k12 grants · $20k
$10k–50k10 grants · $148k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$50,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES$30,000
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY (AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION)$28,000
HEAR 4 HOPE$15,000
LITTLE TOKYO SERVICE CENTER$15,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS LOS ANGELES REGION$10,000
KITTEN RESCUE VIA NETWORK FOR GOOD$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$10,000
LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION$10,000
NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE$10,000
FIX NATION$10,000
NY PUBLIC LIBRARY-WALLACH DIVISION$5,000
ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND$5,000
10X10 PHOTOBOOKS INC$2,000
ALOHA ANIMAL SANCTUARY$1,500

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 34% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.0M · 34 repeat orgs$250k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.0M

$184k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%

+23%

Still filing today

24%

17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationInternationalAnimalsHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

HP
HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
8× · 2017–2024 · $277k · revenue +37%
EW
EAST WEST CENTER FOUNDATION
3× · 2017–2019 · $185k · revenue +111%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
2× · 2024–2025 · $126k · revenue +83%

Funded once

SA
SEARCH AND RESCUE DOGS OF PA
one grant, 2022 · $68k
ES
EMELDA SNYDER RESEARCH CENTER (RUTGERS UNIVERSITY)
one grant, 2017 · $15k
HC
HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +193%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

United States Naval Institute

To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.

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New York Academy of Sciences

To advance scientific knowledge and to increase the number of scientifically informed individuals.

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Honolulu Museum of Art

To create relevant and transformative experiences through the study, preservation, presentation and creation of art.

Arts & Culture

Boston Architectural College

Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…

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University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education

National Association of College and

Advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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American Gas Association

American gas association (the association) is an advocate for natural gas utility companies and their customers. the association helps natural gas utilities achieve operational excellence in the safe, reliable and efficient delivery of…

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American Geophysical Union

Agu is an international nonprofit association supporting an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to address societal challenges.

Science & Tech

National Academy of Design

The national academy promotes the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education

Asian and Pacific Islander American

Our vision is to see that all asian american and pacific islanders have access to higher education and resources that cultivate their academic, personal and professional success regardless of their ethnicity, national origin or financial…

Education

American Academy of Neurology

The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) is the leading voice in brain health. As the world's largest association of neurologists and neuroscience professionals with more than 40,000 members, the AAN offers access to continuing education,…

Community Improvement

Hawaii State Teachers Association

The hawaii state teachers association consists of teachers employed by the state of hawaii department of education. the association serves as the exclusive collective bargaining agent for employees classified as teachers employed by the…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hawaii Pacific University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 23% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1/22

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,543

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.

05the grantee network

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/21

Grantees still filing

13/21

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,329,709Education$403,410International$195,038Arts & Culture$121,510Public Safety & Disaster$77,900Community Improvement$70,104Philanthropy$10,000

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.

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.

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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 organisation THE HONDA 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: EAST WEST CENTER FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~12 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 990218752 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on EAST WEST CENTER FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 12 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 7% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Honda Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Honda Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE HONDA FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Honda Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE HONDA FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Honda Foundation?

More from the funding graph