How much does The Roy H and Lorraine M Okumura Foundation give?

The Roy H and Lorraine M Okumura Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $425,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 28 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does The Roy H and Lorraine M Okumura Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Health (19%), Education (11%).

Who are The Roy H and Lorraine M Okumura Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Nisei Veterans Memorial Center ($377k), Imua Family Services ($225k), Feed My Sheep Inc ($200k).

Does The Roy H and Lorraine M Okumura Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Roy H and Lorraine M Okumura Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Roy H and Lorraine M Okumura Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation, Bendon Family Foundation, The Red Cabin Foundation Trust.

Where is The Roy H and Lorraine M Okumura Foundation based?

The Roy H and Lorraine M Okumura Foundation is based in HI.

The Roy H and Lorraine M Okumura Foundation

The Roy H and Lorraine M Okumura Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$425k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$731kHealth$556kEducation$325kPhilanthropy$260kFood & Nutrition$225kCommunity Improvement$210kYouth Development$153kArts & Culture$147kOther$0

02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k13 grants · $48k
$10k–50k18 grants · $328k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$9.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION	$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION	$25,000
KAHULUI HONGWANJI MISSION (HONPA HONGWANJI)	$25,000
MAUI ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC MEDB	$25,000
MAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION	$25,000
SEABURY HALL	$25,000
NISEI VETERANS MEMORIAL CENTER	$25,000
HALE MAKUA HEALTH SERVICES	$25,000
SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF THE AMERICAS INC	$25,000
MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER	$25,000
HAWAII HOTEL INDUSTRY FOUNDATION	$20,000
BOY SCOUT OF AMERICA ALOHA COUNCIL 104	$12,500
IMUA FAMILY SERVICES	$10,000
FEED MY SHEEP INC	$10,000
PACIFIC CANCER FOUNDATION	$10,000

02The need

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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 21% of The Roy H and Lorraine M Okumura Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in HI; by stated purpose, 81%.

The Roy H and Lorraine M Okumura Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 7.7% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.7M · 26 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.7M

$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+204%

Still filing today

81%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

NV
NISEI VETERANS MEMORIAL CENTER
6× · 2019–2024 · $377k · revenue +70%
IF
IMUA FAMILY SERVICES
5× · 2020–2024 · $225k · revenue +14%
FM
FEED MY SHEEP INC
5× · 2019–2024 · $200k · revenue +83%

Funded once

BS
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-ALOHA COUNCIL #104
one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -14%
AR
AFUSO RYU CHOICHI KAI USA HAWAII CHAPTER
one grant, 2023 · $2k
MH
MAUI HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +204%

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.

Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation

Environment

Hawaii Maritime Center

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E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute

Environment

Hawaii Book and Music Festival

Arts & Culture

Malama Kua Aina

Environment

Kuakini Foundation

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;…

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Hawaii Education Institute

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Pali Momi Foundation

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

Health

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

Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

To improve the health and well-being of our community.

Human Services

Hui Malama Ola Na Oiwi

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.

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Kukio Hoomana Fund

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…

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maui United Way; 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.

05the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 35 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/29

Grantees still filing

21/29

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$831,000Health$662,000Arts & Culture$528,500Human Services$346,061Philanthropy$260,000Education$189,500Community Improvement$70,000Food & Nutrition$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

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.

Fred Baldwin Memorial FoundationHI26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Roy H and Lorraine M Okumura Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Roy H and Lorraine M Okumura Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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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