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The Robert & Betty Wo Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$225k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$655kHealth$249kReligion$195kArts & Culture$190kHuman Services$159kFood & Nutrition$94kPhilanthropy$60kInternational$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $76k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$75,000
THE QUEEN'S HEALTH SYSTEMS$50,000
AMERICAN HOME FURNISHINGS HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC$40,000
VOLUNTEER ALLY$25,000
COMMUNITY CHURCH OF HONOLULU$11,000
ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION$5,000
REHAB FOUNDATION$5,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$5,000
ASSETS SCHOOL$3,500
CENTRAL UNION CHURCH$3,000
IOLANI SCHOOL$1,500
THE PANTRY$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN HOME FURNISHINGS HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC: $40k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FURNISHINGS HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC: $45k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FURNISHINGS HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC: $40k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FURNISHING HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%AMERICAN HOME FURNISHING HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 9%NAVIAN HAWAII: $2k → 9%NAVIAN HAWAII: $1k → 9%HOSPICE HAWAII: $500 → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $10k → 9%PALOLO CHINESE HOME: $5k → 9%PALOLO CHINESE HOME: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 28 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
24

Total granted

$1.5M
$132k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+24%

Still filing today

64%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $291k · revenue +56%
  • TQ
    THE QUEEN'S HEALTH SYSTEMS
    3× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +88%
  • AH
    AMERICAN HOME FURNISHINGS HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $140k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CULINARY
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • KC
    KUNIA COUNTRY FARM EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • FH
    FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +28%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
2
Hawaii Education Institute
—
3
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
4
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
5
Hawaii Exemplary State Foundation
Community Improvement
6
Hawaii Association of Independent Schools

The hawai'i association of independent schools (hais) advocates on behalf of independent education in hawaii, provides services that strengthen individual schools and engages them to achieve educational quality and excellence for all…

Education
7
Hawaii Maritime Center
—
8
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
9
Kapi'olani Medical Specialists

Kapi'olani medical specialists (dba hawai'i pacific health medical group) is a multispecialty provider group dedicated to providing world-class care for adults and children across hawai'i and the pacific region working in partnership with…

Health
10
Pali Momi Foundation

The mission of pali momi foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.

Health
11
Hawaii Medical Association

Hawaii medical association is dedicated to serving physicians, their patients and community through representation, advocacy, and public service. core activities: advocacy, education

—
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kahala Nui Senior Living Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Grove Farm Company Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%8%10–20yr18%38%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr14%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr18%1%10–20yr18%19%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr14%56%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
13%
695/5,401

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.

04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 57 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/39
Grantees still filing
28/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITY CHURCH OF HONOLULU — $185,870 · OtherCOMMUNITY CHURCH OF HONOLULUDIAMOND HEAD THEATRE — $88,550 · OtherDIAMOND HEAD THEATREUNIVERSITY OF IOWA — $75,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF IOWAUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CULINARY — $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CULINARYMILLS COLLEGE — $41,675 · OtherMILLS COLLEGEAMERICAN RED CROSS — $27,500 · OtherASSET SCHOOL — $22,492 · OtherPacific & Asian Affairs Council — $22,000 · Other+25 more — $126,500 · Other+25 moreUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $291,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATIONPUNAHOU SCHOOL — $80,000 · EducationPUNAHOU SCHOOL'IOLANI SCHOOL — $50,000 · Education'IOLANI SCHOOLTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $30,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSI…ASSETS SCHOOL — $23,500 · Education+4 more — $26,500 · EducationTHE QUEEN'S HEALTH SYSTEMS — $150,000 · HealthTHE QUEEN'S HEA…THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER — $50,000 · HealthTHE QUEEN'S MED…Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation — $20,000 · HealthRehabilitation …+1 more — $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN HOME FURNISHINGS HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC — $140,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN H…FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER — $10,000 · Human ServicesFEEDING HA…PALOLO CHINESE HOME — $10,000 · Human ServicesPALOLO CHI…+2 more — $4,500 · Human ServicesVOLUNTEER ALLY — $80,000 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART — $17,000 · Arts & CultureALOHA UNITED WAY INC — $40,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $16,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF HAWAII CHARITIES INC — $2,500 · PhilanthropyHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $12,000 · Animals
Other$639,587Education$501,000Health$225,000Human Services$164,500Arts & Culture$97,000Philanthropy$58,500Animals$12,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $291,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE QUEEN'S HEALTH SYSTEMS — $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HOME FURNISHINGS HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC — $140,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetDIAMOND HEAD THEATRE — $88,550 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetVOLUNTEER ALLY — $80,000 over 3y, 37% of budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL — $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budget'IOLANI SCHOOL — $50,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILLS COLLEGE — $41,675 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALOHA UNITED WAY INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASSETS SCHOOL — $23,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPacific & Asian Affairs Council — $22,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation — $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII LITERACY INC — $18,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART — $17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPALOLO CHINESE HOME — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKAHALA NUI SENIOR LIVING FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA -- ALOHA COUNCIL — $7,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetHawai'i Pacific Health — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN WOMEN FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING — $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPROJECT HAWAII INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON GRACE — $4,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHOSPICE HAWAII INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHawaii Architectural Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBALLET HAWAII — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETY OF HAWAII — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

J Watumull FundTradewind Group Found…Aloha United Way IncMcInerny Foundation--Chung Kun Ai Foundati…First Insurance Compa…Bank of Hawaii Charit…The Harry and Jeanett…Ben & Miriam Lau Foun…Central Pacific Bank …Atherton Family Found…The James and Juanita…
J Watumull FundHI38.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Robert & Betty Wo 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Robert & Betty Wo Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Robert & Betty Wo Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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