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Aloha Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$83k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k33 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$1,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$613k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MALAMA HONUA PUB CH SCHOOL$15,000
FAITH AND JUSTICE INTERFAITH$10,000
COLORADO YOUTH CORPS ASSOCIATION$7,500
ROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY$5,000
HUDSON GUILD$5,000
ROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$4,000
COLORADO FISCAL INSTITUTE$3,500
THE BELL POLICY CENTER$3,500
ASPEN PUBLIC RADIO$3,000
COLORADO CENTER ON LAW & POLICY$3,000
COLORADO ALLIANCE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL$2,500
COLORADO CONSERVATION EDUCATION FD$2,500
CARBON LEADERSHIP FORUM$2,500
PRIME COALITION$1,500
BLUE FOREST FINANCE INC$1,500
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY: $5k → 8%PRIME COALITION: $2k → 8%ADOPT INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 8%HUDSON GUILD: $5k → 17%PAE PAE O HEEIA: $500 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$73k · 14 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
23

Total granted

$73k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

57%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
EnvironmentCivil RightsHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
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

  • MH
    MALAMA HONUA PUB CH SCHOOL
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k
  • CY
    COLORADO YOUTH CORPS ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $13k · revenue 0%
  • TB
    THE BELL POLICY CENTER
    2× · 2024–2025 · $8k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • F
    FAIRVOTE
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
  • CF
    Center for Common Ground
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -31%
  • HF
    HEARTLAND FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
2
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
3
Climate Leadership Council Inc

To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.

Environment
4
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
5
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
6
Hawaii Alliance for Community-Based Economic Development

To encourage increased investment in sustainable and community-based approaches to economic development hacbed advances its mission to address, social, economic, and environmental justice in hawaii through community based economic…

Unclassified
7
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
8
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
9
Transform Hawaii Government

Transform hawaii government is a grassroots organization formed to support the state of hawaii's effort to transform government through an empowered workforce, improved business practices, and continued investments in technology to benefit…

Public Benefit
10
Friends of the Earth (Action) Inc

To improve the environment through education and policy work, with an emphasis on pollution, climate change, and energy issues; and how congress and the administration stand on these issues.

—
11
Kauai Economic Development Board

To develop innovative, effective partnerships with public, private, non- profit, and other community sectors to accomplish shared goals for a strong economy.

—
12
Family Programs Hawaii

The mission of the organization is to strengthen youth and families through high quality prevention, support, and transition services.

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prime Coalition Inc; the most unlike its peers is Center for Common Ground. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 59 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
11/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MALAMA HONUA PUB CH SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherMALAMA HONUA PUB CH SCHOOLFAITH AND JUSTICE INTERFAITH: $10,000 · OtherFAITH AND JUSTICE INTERFAITHCOLORADO CONSERVATION EDUCATION FD: $7,500 · OtherCOLORADO CONSERVATION EDUCATION FDHEARTLAND FUND: $5,000 · OtherHEARTLAND FUNDCOLORADO ALLIANCE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL: $5,000 · OtherCOLORADO ALLIANCE FOR ENVIRONMENTALCOBALT ADVOCATES: $4,000 · OtherASPEN PUBLIC RADIO: $3,000 · OtherCOLORADO CENTER ON LAW AND POLICY: $3,000 · Other+27 more: $20,980 · Other+27 moreTIDES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATI…Rose Community Foundation: $8,000 · PhilanthropyRose Community…ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyARIZONA COMMUN…MAUI UNITED WAY: $1,500 · PhilanthropyMAUI UNITED WA…COLORADO YOUTH CORPS ASSOCIATION: $12,500 · EnvironmentCOLORADO YOUT…CARBON LEADERSHIP FORUM: $2,500 · EnvironmentCARBON LEADER…OUR CLIMATE EDUCATION FUND: $2,500 · EnvironmentOUR CLIMATE E…BLUE FOREST FINANCE INC: $1,500 · EnvironmentBLUE FOREST F…HAWAII WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION: $1,000 · Environment+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentTHE BELL POLICY CENTER: $7,500 · Civil RightsTHE BELL PO…FAIRVOTE: $6,000 · Civil RightsFAIRVOTEROCK THE VOTE: $1,000 · Civil RightsROCK THE VO…THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $1,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER P…ARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT: $1,000 · Civil RightsARIZONA CEN…Nonprofit VOTE Inc: $1,000 · Civil RightsNonprofit V…HUDSON GUILDINC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHUDSON GU…ROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesROAD TO R…PRIME COALITION INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesPRIME COA…ADOPT INTERNATIONAL: $1,500 · Human ServicesADOPT INT…PAEPAE O HE'EIA: $500 · Human ServicesCOLORADO FISCAL INSTITUTE: $7,500 · Community ImprovementCenter for Common Ground: $5,000 · Public BenefitCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $2,000 · Public Benefit
Other$78,480Philanthropy$21,500Environment$20,500Civil Rights$17,500Human Services$13,500Community Improvement$7,500Public Benefit$7,000

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 budgetCOLORADO YOUTH CORPS ASSOCIATION: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRose Community Foundation: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BELL POLICY CENTER: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO FISCAL INSTITUTE: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAIRVOTE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Common Ground: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUDSON GUILDINC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOBALT ADVOCATES: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADOPT INTERNATIONAL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCK THE VOTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCivic Nation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL CHARTER SCHOOLS: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEAGULL SCHOOLS INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNonprofit VOTE Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENT HAWAII INC: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSHEFA JEWISH PSYCHEDELIC SUPPORT: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUI MALAMA O KE KAI FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAIMANALO HEALTH CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAEPAE O HE'EIA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHonolulu Civil Beat Inc: $500 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.

Atherton Family Found…New Venture FundCalifornia Community …American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Atherton Family FoundationHI13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atherton Family Foundation · New Venture Fund · California Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Aloha Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aloha Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Aloha Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Aloha 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 59 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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