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A Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$57k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
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 2025.

Recreation & Sports$717kReligion$527kScience & Tech$201kEnvironment$95kInternational$50kHuman Services$42kFood & Nutrition$35kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$20,000
GLOBALGIVING$12,000
HAWAII FOODBANK$6,500
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$4,000
MA CENTER CHARITIES$3,500
SELF-REALIZATION FELLOWSHIP$3,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$2,500
Individual grant recipient$1,478
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$1,000
HALEIWA ARTS FESTIVAL$500
ONCE A MONTH CHURCH$500
NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$500
MALAMA PUPUKEA WAIMEA$500
TEACH FOR AMERICA$250
02The need
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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 (FY17–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%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

ID
IL
NY
CA
CO
NC
DC
HI
FL
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.

24%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$408k · 17 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
23

Total granted

$408k
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+39%

Still filing today

53%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +41%
  • HF
    HAWAII FOODBANK INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +100%
  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
    9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +202%

Funded once

  • SO
    STATE OF HAWAII
    one grant, 2019 · $717k
  • BB
    BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $34k
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
For the Fishes

To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…

Animals
2
Hawaiian Islands Land Trust

Hawaiian islands land trust dba hawai'i land trust (hilt) is hawai'i's statewide land trust that is both a hawai'i 501(c)3 nonprofit, and a nationally accredited land trust. hilt's mission is to protect and steward the lands that sustain…

Environment
3
The People's Fund

Hawai`i people`s fund supports, funds, and amplifies the work of hawai`i- based grassroots organizations challenging systems of oppression.

Human Services
4
Malama Haleakala Foundation

Support the protection of the vital terrestrial and near-shore ecosystems of haleakala

Environment
5
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
6
Uhiwai O Haleakala

The mission of the corporation shall be to work with partners to protect and restore native ecosystems and watersheds, to improve the quality and quantity of freshwater resources to perpetuate hawaiian cultural resources and practices, to…

Environment
7
Pacific Whale Foundation

Protect the ocean through science and advocacy and inspire environmental stewardship, remaining steadfastly dedicated to saving the world's whales and dolphins from extinction through research, education, (see schedule o)

Environment
8
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
9
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
10
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
11
Malama Kua Aina
Environment
12
Hawaii Pacific Model United Nations Incorporated
International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Malama Popoki. 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 42 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)
2
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

STATE OF HAWAII: $717,190 · OtherSTATE OF HAWAIIBIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH: $500,000 · OtherBIBLE BAPTIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $148,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+26 more: $129,347 · Other+26 moreNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $57,750 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $20,500 · EnvironmentTHE NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $6,250 · Environment+1 more: $250 · EnvironmentGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $37,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $12,000 · International+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $24,600 · Food & NutritionFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,500 · Human ServicesMALAMA PUPUKEA-WAIMEA: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHALEIWA ARTS FESTIVAL: $2,500 · Arts & CultureHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,494,537Environment$84,750International$50,000Food & Nutrition$24,600Human Services$16,500Arts & Culture$12,500Philanthropy$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $57,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $37,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $24,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $20,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALAMA PUPUKEA-WAIMEA: $10,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $6,250 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHALEIWA ARTS FESTIVAL: $2,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALAMA POPOKI: $250 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $250 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.

  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds MALAMA PUPUKEA-WAIMEA ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds THE NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HALEIWA ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS ↗
  • Who funds HINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MALAMA POPOKI ↗
  • Who funds THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗

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.

Hawaii Foodbank IncHI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hawaii Foodbank Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization A Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from A Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    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 42 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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