Hawaii · Private foundation
The Robert & Betty Wo Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $225k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations The Robert & Betty Wo Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $225k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $217k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $236k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $55k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $71k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $224k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $166k | 41% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $216k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Hawaii Foundation | $291,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Queen's Health Systems | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Home Furnishings Hall of Fame Foundation Inc | $140,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Diamond Head Theatre | $88,550 | 6 | 0% |
| Volunteer Ally | $80,000 | 3 | 37% |
| Punahou School | $80,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Queen's Medical Center | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| 'Iolani School | $50,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Mills College | $41,675 | 6 | 0% |
| Aloha United Way Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($411k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Robert & Betty Wo Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 · Tradewind Group Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · McInerny Foundation-- · Chung Kun Ai Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Ben & Miriam Lau Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · The James and Juanita Wo Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Robert & Betty Wo Foundation
- How much does The Robert & Betty Wo Foundation give?
- The Robert & Betty Wo Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $225,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Robert & Betty Wo Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (39%), Health (15%), Religion (11%).
- Who are The Robert & Betty Wo Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Hawaii Foundation ($291k), The Queen's Health Systems ($150k), American Home Furnishings Hall of Fame Foundation Inc ($140k).
- Does The Robert & Betty Wo Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Robert & Betty Wo Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Robert & Betty Wo Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include J Watumull Fund, Tradewind Group Foundation, Aloha United Way Inc.
- Where is The Robert & Betty Wo Foundation based?
- The Robert & Betty Wo Foundation is based in HI.
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