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The Robert M and Alice K Fujimoto Foundation at a glance

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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.

$24k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$112kReligion$47kArts & Culture$43kHealth$18kScience & Tech$17kHuman Services$10kCommunity Improvement$7kEnvironment$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$149k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PBS HAWAII: $5k → 9%CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS: $12k → 15%HAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE: $4k → 9%UH HILO SIGMA: $10k → 15%UH HILO SIGMA: $10k → 15%LYMAN HOUSE MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $5k → 15%HILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%HAWAII SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM: $4k → 15%JA OF HAWAII ISLAND: $4k → 15%HILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $3k → 15%HAWAII SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM: $3k → 15%HILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%PACIFIC TSUNAMI MUSEUM: $3k → 15%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII: $3k → 15%PERPETUATING UNIQUE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES INC: $2k → 15%HAWAII ISLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC: $2k → 15%ISLAND OF HAWAII YMCA: $2k → 15%PACIFIC TSUNAMI MUSEUM: $2k → 15%YWCA HAWAII ISLAND: $2k → 15%LYMAN HOUSE MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $2k → 15%HILO HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%LYMAN HOUSE MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $2k → 15%BIG ISLAND SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $2k → 15%LYMAN HOUSE MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $2k → 15%HILO HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%HILO HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%ISLAND OF HAWAII YMCA: $2k → 15%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII: $2k → 15%HILO HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%PACIFIC TSUNAMI MUSEUM: $2k → 15%HILO HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%HAWAII JAPANESE CENTER: $2k → 15%EAST HAWAII CULTURAL CENTER: $2k → 15%JCA OF HAWAII: $2k → 15%EAST HAWAII CULTURAL CENTER: $2k → 15%HILO HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%HAWAII ISLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC: $2k → 15%HILO HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%HILO HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%LYMAN HOUSE MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $2k → 15%HI ISLAND ADULT CARE: $2k → 15%EAST HAWAII CULTURAL CENTER: $2k → 15%HAWAII ISLAND PORTUGUESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $1k → 15%KONA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%CANADA FRANCE HAWAII TELESCOPE: $6k → 15%KOHALA INSTITUTE: $6k → 15%KILAUEA DRAMA & ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK (KDEN): $2k → 15%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$250k · 23 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
21

Total granted

$250k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+24%

Still filing today

57%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthCrime & LegalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $81k · revenue +56%
  • PS
    PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +27%
  • HH
    HILO HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +119%

Funded once

  • CO
    CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS
    one grant, 2018 · $12k
  • CT
    CANADA-FRANCE-HAWAII TELESCOPE CORP
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -11%
  • KI
    KOHALA INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue ×1,542
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 Education Institute
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2
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
3
Hawaii Maritime Center
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4
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
5
Hawaii Exemplary State Foundation
Community Improvement
6
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
7
Hiikua a Hiialo Cultural Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
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
9
Kauai Historical Society

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.

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10
Honolulu Museum of Art

To create relevant and transformative experiences through the study, preservation, presentation and creation of art.

Arts & Culture
11
The Ohana Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Hawaiian Islands Land Trust

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kohala Institute; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/27
Grantees still filing
21/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BSA ALOHA COUNCIL: $34,700 · OtherBSA ALOHA COUNCILIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHILO HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $13,500 · OtherHILO HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATIONCHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS: $12,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSSJA OF HAWAII ISLAND: $6,500 · OtherCANADA-FRANCE-HAWAII TELESCOPE CORP: $6,000 · OtherKOHALA INSTITUTE: $6,000 · OtherEAST HAWAII CULTURAL CENTER: $5,500 · Other+20 more: $36,315 · Other+20 moreUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $80,680 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATIONPUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationPUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HAWAII FOUNDATION+1 more: $250 · EducationLYMAN HOUSE MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $12,500 · Arts & CultureLYMAN HOUSE M…Hawaii Science and Technology Museum: $7,000 · Arts & CultureHawaii Scienc…Pacific Tsunami Museum Inc: $6,100 · Arts & CulturePacific Tsuna…HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII: $6,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII PUBLIC…HAWAII JAPANESE CENTER: $1,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureHILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $11,250 · PhilanthropyAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,000 · HealthKONA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,250 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthHAWAII ISLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD: $4,500 · Crime & LegalGOING HOME HAWAII: $550 · Crime & LegalHAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE: $4,100 · Science & Tech
Other$140,515Education$95,930Arts & Culture$34,100Philanthropy$11,250Health$5,350Crime & Legal$5,050Science & Tech$4,100

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $80,680 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHILO HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetLYMAN HOUSE MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $12,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $11,250 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetPacific Tsunami Museum Inc: $6,100 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCANADA-FRANCE-HAWAII TELESCOPE CORP: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII: $4,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII ISLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD: $4,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetHAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE: $4,100 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetISLAND OF HAWAI'I YMCA: $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHAWAII ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII CONCERT SOCIETY: $2,500 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetKONA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,250 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHAWAII JAPANESE CENTER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVOLCANO ART CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOING HOME HAWAII: $550 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Eisenhower Foundation: $105 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS HAWAII: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $100 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.

  • 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 CANADA-FRANCE-HAWAII TELESCOPE CORP ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds KOHALA INSTITUTE ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Hpm Building Supply F…Atherton Family Found…First Insurance Compa…Cooke Foundation Limi…J Watumull FundHawaii Council for Hu…The Queen's Medical C…Tradewind Group Found…Central Pacific Bank …Bank of Hawaii Charit…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…
Hpm Building Supply FoundationHI34.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Robert M and Alice K Fujimoto Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert M and Alice K Fujimoto Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to The Robert M and Alice K Fujimoto 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 44 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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