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Yamada Scott Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$58k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$187kHealth$9kPhilanthropy$5kCommunity Improvement$2kArts & Culture$2kYouth Development$2kInternational$1kEnvironment$250Other$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $8k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$293k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%St Mary's College: $250 → 9%University of Hawaii Foundation: $50k → 9%Big Island Candies Foundation: $1k → 15%US Japan Council: $500 → 14%St Johnsbury Athenaeum: $100 → 12%St Mary's College: $200 → 9%University of Hawaii Foundation: $50k → 9%Big Island Candies Foundation: $500 → 15%US - Japan Council: $500 → 14%University of Hawaii Foundation: $50k → 9%University of Hawaii Foundatin: $10k → 9%University of Hawaii Foundation: $10k → 9%Yamada Scott Foundation: $2k → 9%Hahahauoli School: $500 → 9%Girl Scouts of Hawaii: $1k → 9%Salvation Army: $250 → 9%Girl Scouts of Hawaii: $500 → 9%Honolulu Civil Beat: $100 → 9%Honolulu Civil Beat: $100 → 9%KCAA Preschools of Hawaii: $3k → 9%KCAA Preschool: $3k → 9%KCAA Preschools: $2k → 9%KCAA Preschools of Hawaii: $1k → 9%Iolani School: $1k → 9%Iolani School: $1k → 9%Iolani School: $1k → 9%Japanese Cultural Center: $600 → 9%Japanese Cultural Center: $600 → 9%KCAA Preschools of Hawaii: $500 → 9%Waipahu High School: $250 → 9%Hawaii State Golf Association: $100 → 9%Island Pacific Academy: $500 → 9%Island Pacific Academy: $500 → 9%Queen's Health Systems: $6k → 9%Hawaii Community Foundation: $3k → 9%Hawaii Executive Collaborative: $1k → 9%Queen's Health Systems: $1k → 9%Hawaii Executive Collaborative: $1k → 9%Queen's Health Systems: $1k → 9%American Heart Association: $500 → 9%Hawaii Community Foundation: $50 → 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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$194k · 13 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +88% since the first grant, against +47% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
5

Total granted

$194k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%
+47%

Still filing today

92%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue +132%
  • TQ
    THE QUEEN'S HEALTH SYSTEMS
    3× · 2020–2022 · $8k · revenue +88%
  • KP
    KCAA PRESCHOOLS OF HAWAII
    3× · 2021–2023 · $4k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • KP
    KCAA Preschools
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +16%
  • WH
    Waipahu High School
    one grant, 2023 · $250
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
Hawaii Education Institute
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2
Hawaii Association of Independent Schools

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…

Education
3
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
4
Hawaii Preparatory Academy

To provide exceptional learning opportunities in a diverse community honoring the traditions of hawaii. see schedule o.

Education
5
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
6
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
7
Hawaii Exemplary State Foundation
Community Improvement
8
Hawaiian Historical Society

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Kula Aupuni Niihau a Kahelelani Aloha (Kanaka)

Preserve niihau cultural values and language.

Education
10
Hawaii Public Television Foundation Dba Pbs Hawaii

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Hawaii Medical Association

Hawaii medical association is dedicated to serving physicians, their patients and community through representation, advocacy, and public service. core activities: advocacy, education

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12
Kukio Hoomana Fund

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…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hanahauoli School; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 26 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $170,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION+6 more: $11,350 · Education+6 moreKCAA Preschool: $2,500 · OtherKCAA Preschools: $2,400 · OtherYamada Scott Foundation: $1,796 · OtherJapanese Cultural Center: $1,200 · OtherHANAHAUOLI SCHOOL: $500 · Other+7 more: $1,250 · OtherTHE QUEEN'S HEALTH SYSTEMS: $8,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 · HealthHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,880 · PhilanthropyHAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVE: $2,000 · Community ImprovementJAPANESE WOMEN'S SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $200 · Community ImprovementGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentUS- JAPAN COUNCIL: $1,000 · International
Education$181,350Other$9,646Health$8,500Philanthropy$2,880Community Improvement$2,200Youth Development$1,500International$1,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $170,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE QUEEN'S HEALTH SYSTEMS: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKCAA PRESCHOOLS OF HAWAII: $4,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budget'IOLANI SCHOOL: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,880 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIG ISLAND CANDIES FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND PACIFIC ACADEMY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUS- JAPAN COUNCIL: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHANAHAUOLI SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAIIAN LEGACY REFORESTATION INITIATIVE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHonolulu Civil Beat Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJAPANESE WOMEN'S SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC: $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.

Tradewind Group Found…J Watumull FundMcInerny Foundation--Aloha United Way IncThe Cades FoundationGeorge N Wilcox Gener…Central Pacific Bank …Atherton Family Found…Maurice and Joanna Su…Macnaughton FoundationThe Queen's Medical C…First Insurance Compa…
Tradewind Group FoundationHI19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Yamada Scott Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Yamada Scott Family Foundation. 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • St Johnsbury Athenaeum Inc: 2% 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)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Yamada Scott Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Yamada Scott Family 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.

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 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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