· Private foundation
The Robert M and Alice K Fujimoto Foundation
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of THE ROBERT M AND ALICE K FUJIMOTO FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| HAWAII SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM | $4,000 |
| BSA ALOHA COUNCIL | $2,500 |
| HILO HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| HAWAII ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +74% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $81k · revenue +56%
- PSPUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HAWAII FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +74%
- HHHILO HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- COCHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSSone grant, 2018 · $12k
- KIKOHALA INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue ×1,542
- CTCANADA-FRANCE-HAWAII TELESCOPE CORPone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -11%
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.
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…
Our Mission is To collect, preserve, and disseminate the oral, written and pictorial history of Kauai County and to educate ourselves and the public about the history and cultures of Kauai and Niihau.
To create relevant and transformative experiences through the study, preservation, presentation and creation of art.
Hawaiian islands land trust dba hawai'i land trust (hilt) is hawai'i's statewide land trust that is both a hawai'i 501(c)3 nonprofit, and a nationally accredited land trust. hilt's mission is to protect and steward the lands that sustain…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kohala Institute and the most unlike its peers is Pacific Tsunami Museum Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 44 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 UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILO HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LYMAN HOUSE MEMORIAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hawaii Science and Technology Museum ↗
- Who funds Pacific Tsunami Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds KOHALA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds CANADA-FRANCE-HAWAII TELESCOPE CORP ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HAWAII ISLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD ↗
- Who funds HAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds ISLAND OF HAWAI'I YMCA ↗
- Who funds HAWAII ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HAWAII CONCERT SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KONA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZONTA CLUB OF HILO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF HAWAII ISLAND ↗
- Who funds HAWAII JAPANESE CENTER ↗
- Who funds VOLCANO ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds GOING HOME HAWAII ↗
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: Hpm Building Supply Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · J Watumull Fund · Hawaii Council for Humanities · The Queen's Medical Center · Tradewind Group Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 M and Alice K Fujimoto 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.
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