· Public charity
Aina Momona
AINA MOMONA (hawaiian for the fertile or rich land) is a community organization dedicated to achieving environmental health and sustainability through restoring social justice and hawaiian sovereignty.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $409,527 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $438,093 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $28,566 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF AUWAHI FOREST PROJECT | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,394 |
| LAHAINA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $28,000 |
| HAWAII FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION | $18,361 |
| NA LEO PULAMA O MAUI INC | $16,505 |
| MAUI NATIVE HAWAIIAN CHAMBER OF CO | $15,731 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDRENS JUSTICE C | $13,867 |
| KAUPE'A HOMESTEAD ASSOCIATION | $11,268 |
| OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS 5K | $10,967 |
| MAUI YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC | $10,367 |
| HOOLEHUA HOMESTEAD ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $9,367 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,600 |
| HI TECH SURF SPORTS | $7,100 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $500k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those 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 +35% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $343k 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
- FOFriends of Childrens Justice Center3× · 2023–2025 · $43k · revenue +38%
- MYMAUI YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC3× · 2023–2025 · $32k · revenue +57%
- HKHalau Kekuaokalaaualailiahi Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $22k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- GCGrants Central Stationone grant, 2023 · $401k · revenue -78%
- MFMAUI FIREFIGHTERS RELIEFone grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +11% · 95% of their budget
- NANA AIKANE O MAUI INCone grant, 2023 · $252k
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.
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.
The purpose is to preserve and restore the indigenous hawiian culture, farming traditions, fishing practices and hula.
For the benefit and inspiration of ALL, Na Hoa Aloha o ka Pu'uhonua o Honaunau participates with NPS and other partners to protect and preserve cultural and natural resources, guided by the aacestral knowledge of South Kona.
Growing hawaii's communities through culturally based forms of innovative learning, leadership development, and collaborative networking in wahi kupuna stewardship.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lahaina Community Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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. 27 of the 50 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 HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Grants Central Station ↗
- Who funds MAUI FIREFIGHTERS RELIEF ↗
- Who funds NA AIKANE O MAUI INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Auwahi Forest Restoration Project ↗
- Who funds WE ARE OCEANIA ↗
- Who funds LAHAINA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MAUI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Friends of Childrens Justice Center ↗
- Who funds OHANA WAA ↗
- Who funds MAUI YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AHA PUNANA LEO ↗
- Who funds Halau Kekuaokalaaualailiahi Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LOKAHI PACIFIC ↗
- Who funds THE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAUI DANCE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Hawaii Farmers Union Foundation ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds NA LEO PULAMA O MAUI INC ↗
- Who funds Ke Kula O Piilani ↗
- Who funds AHAHUI SIWILA HAWAII ↗
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: Na Hoaloha O Ka'Aina Ltd · Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement · Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · Atherton Family Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Frost Family Foundation · The O L Moore Foundation · The Red Cabin Foundation Trust · The Strong Foundation · The People's Fund
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 Aina Momona 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.
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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