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The James and Juanita Wo Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$270k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$411kHealth$307kArts & Culture$178kFood & Nutrition$133kPhilanthropy$87kHousing & Shelter$60kHuman Services$33kInternational$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VOLUNTEER ALLY$50,000
UH FOUNDATION$40,000
ST CLEMENT'S SCHOOL$25,000
HAWAII FOODBANK$25,000
UH FOUNDATION$25,000
KUNIA COUNTRY FARMS EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH$25,000
ALOHA UNITED WAY$20,000
HAWAII PACIFIC HEALTH$20,000
UH FOUNDATION$15,000
THE PANTRY BY FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER$6,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS HAWAII STATE CHAPTER$5,000
REHAB$5,000
PU'UWAI KILA$5,000
CENTRAL UNION CHURCH PRESCHOOL$3,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%THE PANTRY BY FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $7k → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER - THE PANTRY: $7k → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER - THE PANTRY: $7k → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER - THE PANTRY: $7k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS HAWAII STATE CHAPTER: $5k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS HAWAII STATE CHAPTER: $5k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS HAWAII STATE CHAPTER: $5k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS HAWAII STATE CHAPTER: $5k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $3k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 14 repeat orgs$224k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
21

Total granted

$1.0M
$166k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
0%

Still filing today

93%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionAnimalsOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +56%
  • TQ
    THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER
    6× · 2017–2023 · $200k · revenue +65%
  • VA
    VOLUNTEER ALLY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $130k · revenue +108% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

  • DH
    DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE
    one grant, 2022 · $33k · revenue -20%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEM
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • PA
    Pacific & Asian Affairs Council
    one grant, 2024 · $21k · revenue -27%

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.

1
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
2
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
3
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
4
Hawaii Maritime Center
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5
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
6
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

To improve the health and well-being of our community.

Human Services
7
Pali Momi Foundation

The mission of pali momi foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.

Health
8
Healthcare Association of Hawaii

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.

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9
Hawaii Education Institute
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10
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
11
Hui Pohala

Palliative care is a win-win-win-win. expanding access to palliative care benefits all parts of the healthcare system. people living with serious illness are better able to manage physical and emotional symptoms and have peace of mind that…

Health
12
Kukio Hoomana Fund

The kuki'o ho'omana fund seeks to uplift and enrich our hawai'i island community through intentional investments in curated local organizations focusing on youth empowerment, affordable housing, environmental preservation, cultural…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kuakini Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kunia Country Farms Educational Outreach. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHawaii Natural Resources & …Performing Arts Organizatio…Hawaii Education and Asia-P…Hawaii K-12 SchoolsYouth and Family Support Se…Catholic Healthcare & Educa…Hawaii Health SystemsSenior Residential CareHawaiian Cultural & Environ…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr18%18%10–20yr18%15%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr14%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%11%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr18%9%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr14%60%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/35
the rest of the field
13%
695/5,406

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.

04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
19/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $265,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATI…PUNAHOU SCHOOL — $75,250 · EducationPUNAHOU SCHOOLTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER — $200,000 · HealthTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTE…Hawai'i Pacific Health — $40,000 · HealthHawai'i Pacific HealthStraub Foundation — $30,000 · HealthStraub FoundationRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific — $10,000 · Health+2 more — $6,000 · HealthDIAMOND HEAD THEATRE — $33,000 · OtherDIAMOND HEAD THEATREPUUWAI KILA — $30,000 · OtherPUUWAI KILAUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEM — $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYS…ST CLEMENT'S SCHOOL — $25,000 · OtherST CLEMENT'S SCHOOLPacific & Asian Affairs Council — $21,000 · OtherPacific & Asian Affairs …KUAKINI FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherKUAKINI FOUNDATIONHAWAII LITERACY INC — $15,000 · OtherHAWAII LITERACY INCFriends of the Library of Hawaii — $10,000 · OtherFEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER — $26,000 · OtherFEEDING HAWAII TOGETHERAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $20,000 · OtherAmerican National Red Cr…HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $10,250 · OtherNA KAMA KAI — $10,000 · Other+13 more — $32,700 · Other+13 moreVOLUNTEER ALLY — $130,000 · Arts & CultureVOLUNTEER A…HAWAII FOODBANK INC — $81,500 · Food & NutritionHAWAII FO…KUNIA COUNTRY FARMS EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH — $25,000 · Food & NutritionKUNIA COU…ALOHA UNITED WAY INC — $70,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,000 · PhilanthropyKAHALA SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY INC — $60,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$340,250Health$286,000Other$277,950Arts & Culture$130,000Food & Nutrition$106,500Philanthropy$86,000Housing & Shelter$60,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $265,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER — $200,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER ALLY — $130,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC — $81,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL — $75,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALOHA UNITED WAY INC — $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKAHALA SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHawai'i Pacific Health — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIAMOND HEAD THEATRE — $33,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetStraub Foundation — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER — $26,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPacific & Asian Affairs Council — $21,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKUAKINI FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHAWAII LITERACY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $10,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNA KAMA KAI — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of the Library of Hawaii — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMAUNALANI NURSING AND REHABILITATION CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE ROTARY CLUB OF MILILANI SUNRISE — $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF HAWAII — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollaborative Support Services Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKapi'olani Health Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoalition for a Drug-Free Hawaii — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Ben & Miriam Lau Foun…Tradewind Group Found…J Watumull FundFirst Insurance Compa…Bank of Hawaii Charit…Atherton Family Found…Maurice and Joanna Su…Central Pacific Bank …Aloha United Way IncThe Robert & Betty Wo…Mamoru & Aiko Takitan…The Strong Foundation
Ben & Miriam Lau FoundationHI34.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ben & Miriam Lau Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · J Watumull Fund · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Atherton Family Foundation · Maurice and Joanna Sullivan Family Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · The Robert & Betty Wo Foundation · Mamoru & Aiko Takitani Foundation Inc · The Strong Foundation

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 The James and Juanita Wo 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The James and Juanita Wo Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The James and Juanita Wo Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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