· Private foundation
The Kenneth and Diane Matsuura Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of THE KENNETH AND DIANE MATSUURA FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k47 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $40,250 |
| KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY | $35,960 |
| CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| HARRIS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $18,590 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HFA WAHI NO NA MEA A PAU | $4,750 |
| HAWAII OPERA THEATER | $4,000 |
| HSO | $4,000 |
| HUGS | $3,500 |
| HONOLULU SPEECH & DEBATE | $3,000 |
| DIAMOND HEAD THEATER | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ANNUAL FUND | $3,000 |
| EASTERS SEALS OF S CALIFORNIA | $3,000 |
| FOUNDATION ROTARY MILILANI SUNRISE | $2,000 |
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, $329k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 68% 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.
84 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 14 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- KKKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES5× · 2019–2024 · $133k · revenue +54%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +56%
- CUCHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU2× · 2023–2024 · $70k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- HFHOUSE FOR ALLone grant, 2023 · $11k
- KKKVone grant, 2020 · $10k
- AFARTISTS FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION INTLgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +50%
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.
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…
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
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…
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…
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 lives of those we touch by offering support, guidance and compassionate care of body, mind and spirit.
The mission of kapi'olani health foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.
The hawaii workers center envisions a hawaii in which all workers are empowered to exercise their right to organize for their social, economic and political well-being.
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Marshall & Yuko Hung Foundation. 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 152 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 HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU ↗
- Who funds WE ARE OCEANIA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU ↗
- Who funds HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL & YUKO HUNG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BISHOP MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HALE KIPA INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION INTL ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER HAWAII ↗
- Who funds WAIKIKI HEALTH ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE ↗
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 · Aloha United Way Inc · Atherton Family Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Kosasa Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · Aloha Harvest
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 Kenneth and Diane Matsuura 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.