· Private foundation
The Honda Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $148k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| FIX NATION | $10,000 |
| LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KITTEN RESCUE VIA NETWORK FOR GOOD | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS LOS ANGELES REGION | $10,000 |
| ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND | $5,000 |
| NY PUBLIC LIBRARY-WALLACH DIVISION | $5,000 |
| 10X10 PHOTOBOOKS INC | $2,000 |
| ALOHA ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HPHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $277k · revenue +43%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $126k · revenue +59%
- NDNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- SASearch and Rescue Dogs of Pa Incone grant, 2022 · $68k
- ESEMELDA SNYDER RESEARCH CENTER (RUTGERS UNIVERSITY)one grant, 2017 · $15k
- HMHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +0%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 78 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds KITTEN RESCUE ↗
- Who funds 1979 LEGACY CORP ↗
- Who funds Search and Rescue Dogs of Pa Inc ↗
- Who funds FixNation Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND ↗
- Who funds LITTLE TOKYO COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Annenberg Foundation · Sempra Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Honda Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Honda Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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