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Tmt International Observatory LLC

Tmt international observatory (tio) was founded by the members listed below exclusively to further charitable, educational and scientific purposes and, within such limits, to advance scientific knowledge and education through the study, observation, and collection of images and information from deep space with the objective of furthering…

$116k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$1.0MEducation$429kScience & Tech$280kFood & Nutrition$100kCommunity Improvement$58kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kEnvironment$35kYouth Development$25kOther$0
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $96,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $116,058 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $20,058 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$228M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT$50,000
CAMP AGAPE HAWAII$25,000
CONSORTIUM FOR HAWAII ECO ENGINEERING$15,000
KAHUA PAA MUA INC$6,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

area typical 7%NA KIA I PAA: $20k → 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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$699k · 4 repeat orgs$295k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

$699k
$199k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+96%

Still filing today

75%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • KA
    KE ALI'I PAUAHI FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $313k · revenue +38%
  • HS
    Hawaii Science and Technology Museum
    3× · 2018–2021 · $219k · revenue +643% · 81% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2022 · $116k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FOOD BASKET INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -14%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEM
    one grant, 2018 · $28k
  • WH
    WAIAKEA HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $24k
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
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
2
Na Mamo o Kawa

to rehabilitate, curate, and steward the natural and cultural resources of Kawa to honor the past, benefit the present, and preserve for the future generations of Ka'u, the Island of Hawaii and all humankind.

Environment
3
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
4
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
5
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
—
6
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
7
Hiikua a Hiialo Cultural Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
Hawaii Education Institute
—
9
Hui Malama I Ke Ala Ulili

To re-establish the systems that sustain our community through educational initiatives and land-based practices that cultivate abundance, regenerate responsibilities, and promote collective health and well being.

Community Improvement
10
Hui Aloha Kiholo

Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance the cultural and natural landscape of the kiholo bay area through collaborative management and active community stewardship.

Arts & Culture
11
Papahana Kuaola

Papahana kuaola's mission is to create quality educational programs focused on environmental restoration and economic sustainability fully integrated with hawaiian knowledge in order to exemplify a lifestyle respectful of kanaka, `aina,…

Environment
12
Kahea the Hawaiian Environmental Alliance

Kahea is a community-based organization working to improve the quality of life for hawai`i's people and future generations through the revitalization and protection of hawai`i's unique natural and cultural resources. kahea advocates for…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ke Ali'i Pauahi Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Na Kiai Paa. 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

13 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. 13 of the 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,015,435 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONKE ALI'I PAUAHI FOUNDATION: $312,909 · EducationKE ALI'I PAUAHI FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $115,551 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATI…COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT: $50,000 · EducationCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN A…WAIAKEA HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $23,990 · Education+1 more: $15,000 · EducationHawaii Science and Technology Museum: $218,798 · Arts & CultureHawaii Scien…+1 more: $6,500 · Arts & CultureTHE FOOD BASKET INC: $100,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII ISLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD: $51,512 · Crime & LegalUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEM: $28,301 · OtherOHANA KILO HOKU: $10,000 · OtherKAUAI ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD: $10,000 · OtherNA KIAI PAA: $20,000 · OtherKAHUA PAA MUA INC: $6,000 · OtherCAMP AGAPE HAWAII: $25,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$1,015,435Education$517,450Arts & Culture$225,298Food & Nutrition$100,000Crime & Legal$51,512Other$74,301Youth Development$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,015,435 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetKE ALI'I PAUAHI FOUNDATION: $312,909 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetHawaii Science and Technology Museum: $218,798 over 3y, 81% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $115,551 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOOD BASKET INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHAWAII ISLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD: $51,512 over 3y, 23% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP AGAPE HAWAII: $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCONSORTIUM FOR HAWAII ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKAUAI ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHale Mua Cultural Group: $6,500 over 1y, 22% of budgetKAHUA PAA MUA INC: $6,000 over 1y, 3.3% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Tmt International Observatory LLC funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tmt International Observatory LLC. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.

    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 16 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $20k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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