· Private foundation
The Michael B Wood Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII | $2,500 |
| WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| MAUI FOOD BANK | $1,500 |
| PAWS OF HAWAII | $1,000 |
| KUMU KAHUA THEATRE INC | $1,000 |
| GARY SENISE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HAWAII THEATRE CENTER | $1,000 |
| HAWAII WILDLIFE FUND | $1,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $1,000 |
| FISHER HOUSE | $1,000 |
| PLANT A TREE HAWAII | $1,000 |
| REHAB FOUNDATION OF THE PACIFIC | $1,000 |
| COALITION FOR A DRUG FREE HAWAII | $1,000 |
| HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 14% of The Michael B Wood Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in HI; by stated purpose, 37%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
80 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 65 since wound down; 3 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MIMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE3× · 2017–2019 · $529k · revenue +33%
- TLTHE LAKESIDE CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $23k · revenue +233%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $22k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEYone grant, 2017 · $140k
- FPFAMILY PROGRAMS HAWAIIone grant, 2017 · $41k · revenue -4%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAIIone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +2%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
69 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. 69 of the 103 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROGRAMS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds THE LAKESIDE CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUNAKAI PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADULT FRIENDS FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds HAWAII THEATRE CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds PAWS OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HAWAII WILDLIFE FUND ↗
- Who funds BISHOP MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HAWAII SPEED AND QUICKNESS ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KUMU KAHUA THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: J Watumull Fund · Aloha United Way Inc · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · Tradewind Group Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Kosasa Foundation · Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc · McInerny Foundation-- · The Kenneth and Diane Matsuura Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Michael B Wood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Michael B Wood Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Willamette University: 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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