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The Kutler Family Foundation at a glance

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The Kutler Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$196k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$857kScience & Tech$53kInternational$17kRecreation & Sports$15kCommunity Improvement$13kHuman Services$9kHealth$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
$6,232
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARVARD WESTLAKE SCHOOL$100,000
US NAVAL ACADEMY$75,000
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$10,000
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$6,232
HEALTHCARE ETHICS CONSORTIUM$1,800
HAWAI'I COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
LA EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FOUNDATION$500
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%YACHTAIDE GLOBAL: $10k → 11%CALTECH: $20k → 14%HONOLULU CIVIL BEAT: $512 → 9%AKAKA FOUNDATION FOR TROPICAL FORESTS: $1k → 15%HEALTHCARE ETHICS CONSORTIUM: $2k → 14%US OLYMPIC & PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION'S TEAM USA NEXTGEN PROGRAM: $5k → 9%SEMESTER AT SEA: $102k → 11%USMC SCHOLARSHIP: $1k → 9%US NAVAL ACADEMY: $75k → 6%YACHTAID GLOBAL: $5k → 11%CALTECH: $10k → 14%HO'OLA FARMS: $500 → 15%US OLYMPIC & PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION'S TEAM USA NEXTGEN PROGRAM: $5k → 9%INSTITUTE OF SHIPYARD EDUCATION: $25k → 11%US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $13k → 6%CALTECH: $10k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE: $500 → 15%US OLYMPIC & PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION'S TEAM USA NEXTGEN PROGRAM: $5k → 9%SEMESTER AT SEA: $20k → 11%US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $13k → 6%CALTECH: $10k → 14%AIO FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%ST JAMES CHURCH: $500 → 15%SEMESTER AT SEA: $15k → 11%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $10k → 14%HAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVE: $13k → 9%SEMESTER AT SEA: $10k → 11%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $6k → 14%HAWAI'I COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1k → 14%HARVARD - WESTLAKE: $79k → 14%HARVARD - WESTLAKE: $47k → 14%HARVARD - WESTLAKE: $27k → 14%BLUE RIBBON: $3k → 14%BLUE RIBBON: $3k → 14%HARVARD WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $100k → 14%HARVARD WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $100k → 14%HARVARD WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $100k → 14%HARVARD WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $91k → 14%UCLA FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CARE: $2k → 14%ROBINSON GARDENS: $2k → 14%THE WONDERMENT: $1k → 14%LA LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%LA POLICE FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%FOSTER CARE COUNTS: $5k → 14%FOSTER CARE COUNTS: $4k → 14%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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$828k · 11 repeat orgs$154k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
18

Total granted

$828k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+1%

Still filing today

73%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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
EducationHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION
    4× · 2017–2021 · $147k · revenue +6%
  • UN
    US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $25k · revenue +68%
  • YG
    YACHTAID GLOBAL
    2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • IO
    INSTITUTE OF SHIPYARD EDUCATION
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • AF
    AIO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • HE
    HAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVE
    one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue -17%
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
University of Hawaii Foundation

To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.

Education
2
California Association for Research in Astronomy

To advance the frontiers of astronomy and share our discoveries with the world. the two 10-meter telescopes of keck observatory are the world's largest optical and infrared telescopes. they have revolutionized our understanding of the…

Science & Tech
3
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
4
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
5
Hawaii Culinary Education Foundatio

The hawaii culinary education foundation's mission is to provide hawaiis culinary students and professional access to the best knowledge and exposure to cutting-edge techniques through a variety of programs and educational opportunities…

Education
6
Hawaii International Film Festival

To foster international cultural awareness and understanding through the medium of film. to act as a creative pipeline for hawaii and the pacific, showcasing new and emerging talent from hawaii, asia, americas, europe, and the pacific…

Arts & Culture
7
Hawaii Education Institute
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8
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
9
The University of Hawaii Alumni Association

To advance the interests of the university of hawaii, alumni, and friends through mutually beneficial and lifelong relationships, to generate support for the university, and to participate in events that showcase the university's…

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10
The People's Fund

Hawai`i people`s fund supports, funds, and amplifies the work of hawai`i- based grassroots organizations challenging systems of oppression.

Human Services
11
Pacific Health Research & Education Institute

See schedule ophrei conducts health research and education that improves the health and well-being of veterans and all people in hawaii, central california, the pacific region, and throughout the u.s. driven by the values of excellence and…

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12
'Iolani School

To develop educated, well-rounded individuals who are well prepared for college.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Yachtaid Global. 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

20 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. 20 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $390,899 · EducationHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOLINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION: $147,038 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATIONTHE CALTECH Y: $50,276 · EducationTHE CALTECH YUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Education+4 more: $42,366 · Education+4 moreHARVARD - WESTLAKE: $152,233 · OtherHARVARD - WESTLAKEUS NAVAL ACADEMY: $75,000 · OtherUS NAVAL ACADEMYINSTITUTE OF SHIPYARD EDUCATION: $25,000 · OtherINSTITUTE OF SHIPYARD EDUCATIONAIO FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherAIO FOUNDATIONUS OLYMPIC & PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION'S TEAM USA NEXTGEN PROGRAM: $15,000 · Other+15 more: $28,944 · Other+15 moreYACHTAID GLOBAL: $15,000 · InternationalHAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVE: $13,000 · Community ImprovementHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyFull Circle Fund: $110 · PhilanthropyAKAKA FOUNDATION FOR TROPICAL FORESTS: $1,000 · EnvironmentHonolulu Civil Beat Inc: $512 · Arts & CultureThe Henry Kapono Foundation: $100 · Arts & CultureHoola Veteran Services: $500 · HealthSAVE A HEART FOUNDATION: $100 · Health
Education$655,579Other$321,177International$15,000Community Improvement$13,000Philanthropy$1,110Environment$1,000Arts & Culture$612Health$600

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 budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $390,899 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION: $147,038 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CALTECH Y: $50,276 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $17,566 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYACHTAID GLOBAL: $15,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetHAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVE: $13,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $9,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTER CARE COUNTS: $9,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAKAKA FOUNDATION FOR TROPICAL FORESTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FUTURE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHonolulu Civil Beat Inc: $512 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFull Circle Fund: $110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE A HEART FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Henry Kapono Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Kutler Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kutler Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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