· Private foundation
Yamada Scott 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $8k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Hawaii Foundation | $50,000 |
| KCAA Preschool | $2,500 |
| Yamada Scott Foundation | $1,796 |
| Public Schools of Hawaii Foundation | $1,000 |
| Iolani School | $1,000 |
| Big Island Candies Foundation | $1,000 |
| Hahahauoli School | $500 |
| St Johnsbury Athenaeum | $100 |
| Hawaii State Golf Association | $100 |
| Women's Fund | $100 |
| Japanes Women's Society Foundation | $100 |
| Hawaii Community Foundation | $50 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +88% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue +132%
- TQTHE QUEEN'S HEALTH SYSTEMS3× · 2020–2022 · $8k · revenue +88%
- KPKCAA PRESCHOOLS OF HAWAII3× · 2021–2023 · $4k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- KPKCAA Preschoolsone grant, 2020 · $2k
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +16%
- WHWaipahu High Schoolone grant, 2023 · $250
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The hawai'i association of independent schools (hais) advocates on behalf of independent education in hawaii, provides services that strengthen individual schools and engages them to achieve educational quality and excellence for all…
To provide exceptional learning opportunities in a diverse community honoring the traditions of hawaii. see schedule o.
The society is dedicated to preserving historical materials relating to hawaii, and to publishing scholarly research on hawaiian history so present and future peoples throughout the world will recognize and appreciate the history. the…
Preserve niihau cultural values and language.
The mission of pbs hawai'i is to advance learning and discovery by sharing stories that profoundly touch lives. we bring the world to hawai'i and hawai'i to the world.
Hawaii medical association is dedicated to serving physicians, their patients and community through representation, advocacy, and public service. core activities: advocacy, education
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hanahauoli School and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE QUEEN'S HEALTH SYSTEMS ↗
- Who funds KCAA PRESCHOOLS OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds 'IOLANI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds BIG ISLAND CANDIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds US- JAPAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ISLAND PACIFIC ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN LEGACY REFORESTATION INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Honolulu Civil Beat Inc ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE WOMEN'S SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Tradewind Group Foundation · J Watumull Fund · McInerny Foundation-- · Aloha United Way Inc · The Cades Foundation · George N Wilcox General Trust · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · Maurice and Joanna Sullivan Family Foundation · Macnaughton Foundation · The Queen's Medical Center · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Yamada Scott Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- St Johnsbury Athenaeum Inc — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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