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The Lry Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$143k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$631kHuman Services$131kYouth Development$126kPhilanthropy$90kArts & Culture$80kHealth$52kCommunity Improvement$30kHousing & Shelter$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $118k
$9,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$606k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
KICK START KARATE$5,000
HENRY KAPONO FOUNDATION$5,000
YMCA OF HONOLULU$1,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $6k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $5k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $5k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $5k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $5k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $1k → 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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 16 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
15

Total granted

$1.1M
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+9%

Still filing today

75%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHousing & 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

  • HN
    HO'OLA NA PUA
    4× · 2022–2025 · $99k · revenue +28%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII
    6× · 2018–2023 · $79k · revenue +39%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2023 · $50k · revenue +165%

Funded once

  • RH
    Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +9%
  • YI
    YOUTH IMPACT PROGRAM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -33%
  • AN
    ANGEL NETWORK CHARITIES INC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -76%
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
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
2
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
3
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
4
Hawaii Education Institute
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5
Hawaii Maritime Center
—
6
The Ohana Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Hawaii Exemplary State Foundation
Community Improvement
8
Hawaiian Electric Industries Charitable Foundation
—
9
Aloha Foundation
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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
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
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners in Development Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 33 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAINT LOUIS SCHOOL: $443,500 · OtherSAINT LOUIS SCHOOLSACRED HEARTS ACADEMY: $137,500 · OtherSACRED HEARTS ACADEMYBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII: $79,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAIIIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherALOHA COUNCIL BSA: $35,000 · OtherPARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Other+10 more: $62,500 · Other+10 moreHO'OLA NA PUA: $99,000 · Human ServicesHO'OLA NA P…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU: $27,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S…HAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $40,000 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureIMABRIGHTKID FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureThe Henry Kapono Foundation: $5,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII UNITED OKINAWA ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureALOHA UNITED WAY INC: $35,000 · PhilanthropyWEBCO FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationWAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH &: $15,000 · HealthRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation: $15,000 · HealthTHE AUTISM SOCIETY OF HAWAII: $5,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 · HealthKICK START KARATE: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH IMPACT PROGRAM INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTeen Challenge of the Hawaiian Islands Inc: $2,000 · Youth Development
Other$827,500Human Services$126,000Arts & Culture$80,000Philanthropy$55,000Education$50,000Health$40,000Youth Development$37,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHO'OLA NA PUA: $99,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII: $79,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetALOHA UNITED WAY INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU: $27,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKICK START KARATE: $25,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEBCO FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetWAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH &: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYOUTH IMPACT PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetANGEL NETWORK CHARITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetHAWAII CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMABRIGHTKID FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHAWAII UNITED OKINAWA ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII HOMEOWNERSHIP CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTeen Challenge of the Hawaiian Islands Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetdoTERRA Healing Hands Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

First Hawaiian Bank F…Tradewind Group Found…Bank of Hawaii Charit…Aloha United Way IncCentral Pacific Bank …McInerny Foundation--J Watumull FundFirst Insurance Compa…The Harry and Jeanett…Atlas Insurance Agenc…Finance Factors Found…Locations Foundation
First Hawaiian Bank FoundationHI24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
    3report 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
    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 33 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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