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Universal Leisure Club

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$166kCivil Rights$111kEducation$58kArts & Culture$20kEnvironment$20kPublic Benefit$20kPhilanthropy$11kScience & Tech$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$69k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Liljestrand Foundation$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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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Hawaii Peoples Fund: $5k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
PA
CA
UT
MD
DC
HI
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$275k · 7 repeat orgs$162k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
30

Total granted

$275k
$162k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+27%

Still filing today

43%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesPublic BenefitScience & TechOther
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

  • HI
    HAWAII INVESTMENT READY
    2× · 2019–2020 · $17k · revenue +201%
  • TL
    THE LILJESTRAND FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +59%
  • HH
    HISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $862 · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • LU
    LUND UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -81%
  • TC
    The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progressgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +67%
  • WH
    WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +68%
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
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
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2
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
3
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
4
Hawaii Exemplary State Foundation
Community Improvement
5
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
6
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
7
Hiikua a Hiialo Cultural Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
9
Hawaii Education Institute
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10
Hanalei River Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Ocean Alliance Project

Protecting and promoting the marine biodiversity of Hawai'i through coral restoration, ecological monitoring, regenerative tourism, and cultural integration

Science & Tech
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Hawai'i Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Liljestrand Foundation. 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

23 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. 23 of the 38 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Planned Parenthood: $157,501 · OtherPlanned ParenthoodACLU: $91,424 · OtherACLU+22 more: $69,959 · Other+22 moreLUND UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EducationLUND UNIVERSIT…HAWAII INVESTMENT READY: $17,000 · EducationHAWAII INVESTM…Sustain Hawaii: $5,000 · EducationSustain HawaiiThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $20,000 · Public BenefitPOPOLO PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LILJESTRAND FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATION: $1,030 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $1,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION: $862 · Arts & CultureELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentPANGEASEED FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Environment+1 more: $200 · EnvironmentNETWORK FOR GOOD: $10,550 · Public Safety & DisasterWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $10,000 · Science & Tech
Other$318,884Education$57,000Public Benefit$20,000Arts & Culture$15,892Environment$15,200Public Safety & Disaster$10,550Science & Tech$10,000

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 budgetLUND UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII INVESTMENT READY: $17,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $10,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAKASHIMA FOUNDATION FOR PEACE: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE PEOPLE'S FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSustain Hawaii: $5,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetPANGEASEED FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetThe ARTS at Marks Garage: $3,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE LILJESTRAND FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTESSORI COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION: $862 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHADE INSTITUTE: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER: $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.

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.

Padosi FoundationCooke Foundation Limi…Stupski FoundationAtherton Family Found…Hawaii Council for Hu…Harold Kl Castle Foun…Trustees of the Estat…Tides FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Donor Advised Charita…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …
Padosi FoundationOR17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Padosi Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · Stupski Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · Hawaii Council for Humanities · Harold Kl Castle Foundation · Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Universal Leisure Club funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Universal Leisure Club. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 63%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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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How do I get to Universal Leisure Club?

Find your warmest path to Universal Leisure Club 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 38 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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