· Private foundation
The Roy H and Lorraine M Okumura 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
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $328k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF THE AMERICAS INC | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| KAHULUI HONGWANJI MISSION (HONPA HONGWANJI) | $25,000 |
| NISEI VETERANS MEMORIAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| HALE MAKUA HEALTH SERVICES | $25,000 |
| MAUI ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC MEDB | $25,000 |
| MAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SEABURY HALL | $25,000 |
| HAWAII HOTEL INDUSTRY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BOY SCOUT OF AMERICA ALOHA COUNCIL 104 | $12,500 |
| IMUA FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC CANCER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 21% of The Roy H and Lorraine M Okumura Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in HI; read by stated purpose it is 81% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- NVNISEI VETERANS MEMORIAL CENTER6× · 2019–2024 · $377k · revenue +70%
- IFIMUA FAMILY SERVICES5× · 2020–2024 · $225k · revenue +14%
- FMFEED MY SHEEP INC5× · 2019–2024 · $200k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-ALOHA COUNCIL #104one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -14%
- ARAFUSO RYU CHOICHI KAI USA HAWAII CHAPTERone grant, 2023 · $2k
- MHMAUI HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +204%
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 mission of kuakini foundation is to improve the health status of the community by: providing comprehensive health care services and programs at reasonable cost; continuously improving the quality of health care services and programs;…
The mission of pali momi foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.
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…
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
Hui malama ola na 'oiwi is a community-based native hawaiian health care system whose mission is to improve the provision of comprehensive disease prevention, health promotion, and primary care services on hawaii island.
The kuki'o ho'omana fund seeks to uplift and enrich our hawai'i island community through intentional investments in curated local organizations focusing on youth empowerment, affordable housing, environmental preservation, cultural…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maui United Way and the most unlike its peers is Family Life Center 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 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 35 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 NISEI VETERANS MEMORIAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds IMUA FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEED MY SHEEP INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HALE MAKUA HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MAUI ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SEABURY HALL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII HOTEL INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAUI UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALOHA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII AG AND CULINARY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE MAUI INC ↗
- Who funds Ka Lima O Maui Ltd ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-ALOHA COUNCIL #104 ↗
- Who funds Zenshin Daiko ↗
- Who funds LAE ULA O KAI ↗
- Who funds Family Life Center Inc ↗
- Who funds KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS MAUI CAMPUS PARENT TEACHER STUDENT OHANA ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN KAMALI'I INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI OKINAWA KENJIN KAI ↗
- Who funds MAUI HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation · Bendon Family Foundation · The Red Cabin Foundation Trust · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Maui United Way · Atherton Family Foundation · The Martin Family Foundation · Stable Road Foundation · Hawaii Hotel Industry Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Jeanne and Jim Riley 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 Roy H and Lorraine M Okumura 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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