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Ward Village Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$60k
Granted FY2021
5
Grants FY2021
5
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 5
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations Ward Village Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20215$60k100%
FY20204$120kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Philanthropy$100kHealth$70kEducation$30kArts & Culture$25kFood & Nutrition$20kEnvironment$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Queen's Medical Center$50,00010%
Kcaa Preschools of Hawaii$30,00011%
Aloha United Way Inc$25,00010%
Aloha Harvest$20,00010%
Bishop Museum$15,00010%
Hookuaaina$10,00011%
Waikiki Health$10,00010%
Trees for Honolulu's Future$10,00017%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ward Village Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Queen's Medical Center: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKcaa Preschools of Hawaii: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAloha United Way Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAloha Harvest: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBishop Museum: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHookuaaina: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWaikiki Health: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrees for Honolulu's Future: $10,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

McInerny Foundation--Kosasa FoundationAtherton Family Found…First Insurance Compa…J Watumull FundTrustees of the Estat…Aloha United Way IncFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
McInerny Foundation--HI15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: McInerny Foundation-- · Kosasa Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Aloha United Way Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to Ward Village Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ward Village Foundation 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.

About Ward Village Foundation

How much does Ward Village Foundation give?
Ward Village Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $60,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 5 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does Ward Village Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Philanthropy (39%), Health (27%), Education (12%).
Who are Ward Village Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2021: The Queen's Medical Center ($50k), Kcaa Preschools of Hawaii ($30k), Aloha United Way Inc ($25k).
Does Ward Village Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ward Village Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ward Village Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include McInerny Foundation--, Kosasa Foundation, Atherton Family Foundation.
Where is Ward Village Foundation based?
Ward Village Foundation is based in TX.

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 10 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 2021, released 2021. 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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