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· Private foundation

The Kenneth and Diane Matsuura Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$198k
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$300kInternational$230kEducation$194kArts & Culture$169kHealth$162kHuman Services$113kPhilanthropy$85kYouth Development$27kOther$0
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k47 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $140k
$1,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
HSO$4,000
HAWAII OPERA THEATER$4,000
HUGS$3,500
EASTERS SEALS OF S CALIFORNIA$3,000
DIAMOND HEAD THEATER$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ANNUAL FUND$3,000
HONOLULU SPEECH & DEBATE$3,000
KAGAWA FOUNDATION$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOLT INTERNATIONAL: $28k → 15%HOLT INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 15%HOLT INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 15%HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $44k → 15%HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $40k → 15%HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $35k → 15%HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $30k → 15%HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $21k → 15%SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER OF HAWAII: $2k → 9%SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER OF HAWAII: $2k → 9%SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER OF HAWAII: $1k → 9%SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER OF HAWAII: $500 → 9%SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER OF HAWAII: $500 → 9%NAVIAN HAWAII: $100 → 9%SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 9%SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 9%SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 9%SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $250 → 9%HOSPICE HAWAII: $100 → 9%SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $100 → 9%HOSPICE HAWAII: $100 → 9%HALE KIPA: $3k → 9%HALE KIPA: $2k → 9%HALE KIPA: $2k → 9%HALE KIPA: $200 → 9%T GEORGE PARIS AND VIOLET SUNNY PARIS FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%T GEORGE PARIS AND VIOLET SUNNY PARIS FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%WE ARE OCEANIA: $50k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $10k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $9k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $6k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $5k → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $1k → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $1k → 9%HALE KIPA: $1k → 9%WE ARE OCEANIA: $1k → 9%HALE KIPA: $500 → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $500 → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $300 → 9%HALE KIPA: $200 → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $100 → 9%NAVIAN HAWAII: $100 → 9%HO'OLA NAPUA: $500 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
OR
IA
CA
NE
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
DC
HI
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 84 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

84
52

Total granted

$1.3M
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+66%

Still filing today

51%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • KK
    KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES
    5× · 2019–2024 · $133k · revenue +54%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +56%
  • CU
    CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU
    2× · 2023–2024 · $70k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • HF
    HOUSE FOR ALL
    one grant, 2023 · $11k
  • K
    KKV
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • AF
    ARTISTS FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION INTLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +50%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

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

Human Services
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
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
5
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
6
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
7
Uhiwai O Haleakala

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…

Environment
8
Hospice of Hilo

To improve the lives of those we touch by offering support, guidance and compassionate care of body, mind and spirit.

Human Services
9
Kapi'olani Health Foundation

The mission of kapi'olani health foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.

Health
10
Hawaii Workers Center

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.

Education
11
Hawaii Pacific University

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…

Education
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 152 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
47/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARRIS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $287,057 · OtherHARRIS UNITED METHODIST CHURCHDIAMOND HEAD THEATER: $36,750 · OtherDIAMOND HEAD THEATERHAWAII OPERA THEATER: $26,750 · OtherHUGS: $22,500 · Other+103 more: $262,671 · Other+103 moreHOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $223,543 · Human ServicesHOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDRE…WE ARE OCEANIA: $51,000 · Human ServicesWE ARE OCEANIAYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU: $29,964 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSO…+8 more: $24,900 · Human Services+8 moreUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $82,570 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU: $70,000 · EducationCHAMINADE UNI…University of Illinois Foundation: $7,000 · Education+3 more: $3,100 · EducationKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $133,460 · HealthKOKUA KALIH…WAIKIKI HEALTH: $5,700 · Health+7 more: $3,450 · HealthHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $27,000 · Arts & CultureBISHOP MUSEUM: $16,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $7,500 · Arts & CultureHAWAII HERITAGE CENTER: $5,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII UNITED OKINAWA ASSOCIATION: $4,500 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $3,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII: $2,900 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $3,850 · Arts & CultureMARSHALL & YUKO HUNG FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyARTISTS FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION INTL: $7,000 · PhilanthropyALOHA UNITED WAY INC: $6,250 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,100 · PhilanthropyFINANCE FACTORS FOUNDATION: $1,900 · PhilanthropyHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $7,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$635,728Human Services$329,407Education$162,670Health$142,610Arts & Culture$69,750Philanthropy$40,250Food & Nutrition$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $223,543 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $133,460 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $82,570 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU: $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWE ARE OCEANIA: $51,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU: $29,964 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $27,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBISHOP MUSEUM: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHALE KIPA INC: $8,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $7,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARTISTS FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION INTL: $7,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALOHA UNITED WAY INC: $6,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER HAWAII: $6,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWAIKIKI HEALTH: $5,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII HERITAGE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII UNITED OKINAWA ASSOCIATION: $4,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetT GEORGE PARIS AND VIOLET SUNDAY PARIS FOUNDATION: $3,350 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetKUAKINI FOUNDATION: $3,150 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII: $2,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $2,850 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern California School Of Theology: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OAHU: $2,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKUMU KAHUA THEATRE INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHONOLULU HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $2,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFINANCE FACTORS FOUNDATION: $1,900 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetStraub Foundation: $1,850 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHonolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION: $1,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FELLOWSHIP OF UNITED METHODISTS IN MUSIC AND W: $1,050 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII THEATRE CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $575 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHRISTIAN CENTURY: $450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSojourners Inc: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWINDWARD CHORAL SOCIETY: $400 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHOSPICE HAWAII INC: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII CHILDREN'S ACTION NETWORK: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
  • 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 HAWAII HERITAGE CENTER ↗

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.

J Watumull FundAloha United Way IncAtherton Family Found…Tradewind Group Found…Bank of Hawaii Charit…First Insurance Compa…Central Pacific Bank …First Hawaiian Bank F…The Harry and Jeanett…Kosasa FoundationCooke Foundation Limi…Aloha Harvest
J Watumull FundHI50.7× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Kenneth and Diane Matsuura Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kenneth and Diane Matsuura Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 152 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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