· Private foundation
The Lry Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $118k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HO'OLA NA PUA | $45,000 |
| SACRED HEARTS ACADEMY | $37,500 |
| ALOHA COUNCIL BSA | $20,000 |
| JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| SAINT LOUIS SCHOOL | $9,000 |
| HUGS | $5,000 |
| HENRY KAPONO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| KICK START KARATE | $5,000 |
| YMCA OF HONOLULU | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- HNHO'OLA NA PUA4× · 2022–2025 · $99k · revenue +28%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII6× · 2018–2023 · $79k · revenue +39%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2023 · $50k · revenue +165%
Funded once
- RHRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundationone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +0%
- YIYOUTH IMPACT PROGRAM INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -33%
- ANANGEL NETWORK CHARITIES INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -76%
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.
Hawai`i people`s fund supports, funds, and amplifies the work of hawai`i- based grassroots organizations challenging systems of oppression.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners in Development Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Japanese American National Museum. 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.
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 32 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 33 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 HO'OLA NA PUA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU ↗
- Who funds KICK START KARATE ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WEBCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH & ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUTH IMPACT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL NETWORK CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE AUTISM SOCIETY OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds IMABRIGHTKID FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Henry Kapono Foundation ↗
- Who funds HAWAII UNITED OKINAWA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HAWAII HOMEOWNERSHIP CENTER ↗
- Who funds Teen Challenge of the Hawaiian Islands Inc ↗
- Who funds doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation ↗
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: First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Aloha United Way Inc · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · McInerny Foundation-- · J Watumull Fund · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Atlas Insurance Agency Foundation · Finance Factors Foundation · Locations 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 Lry Charitable 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.