· Private foundation
The Taiji & Naoko Terasaki Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAWAII CONTEMPORARY | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 6 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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HBHONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2023 · $900k · revenue +1% · 27% of their budget
- 'S'IOLANI SCHOOL5× · 2018–2022 · $210k · revenue +57%
- HMHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART2× · 2017–2019 · $155k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- HIHAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +23%
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +6%- HIHAWAII IMMIGRATION JUSTICE CTRone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
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.
The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.
Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…
The baltimore museum of art connects art to baltimore and baltimore to the world, embodying a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting, to the composition…
In 1972, kumu hula george lanakilakekiahiali`i na`ope and kahu wendell silva created our organization to preserve hawaiian culture through dance. from that idea they formed the kalihi-palama culture & arts society, inc. (kpcas) to provide…
Apex Art Curatorial Program is a resolutely noncommercial visual art exhibition space which provides curators and artists with a venue dedicated to ideas that are often too provocative or too small in scope for display elsewhere. Apex Art…
Impart knowledge and appreciation of humanity's relationship with wildlife through art.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 14 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds MAKE VISIBLE ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ART EXPLORIUM ↗
- Who funds 'IOLANI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL ↗
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.
Open a dossier: J Watumull Fund · Atherton Family Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Taiji & Naoko Terasaki Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Taiji & Naoko Terasaki Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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