· Private foundation
Ama Olukai Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $261k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| KAHAKUKAHI | $25,000 |
| KOKUA HAWAI'I FOUNDATION | $17,500 |
| OUTRIGGER DUKE KAHANAMOKU FOUNDATION | $17,000 |
| POLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| NA KAMA KAI | $15,000 |
| HULI HAWAII INC | $15,000 |
| MAUI NUI MAKAI NETWORK | $15,000 |
| KAULUAKALANA | $15,000 |
| HOOLA MUSIC AND CULTURAL ARTS | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| HULIAUAPA'A | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–19, $16k) 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 +100% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 8 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k 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
- PVPOLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $96k · revenue +68%
- NKNA KAMA KAI8× · 2017–2024 · $94k · revenue +416%
- HLHAWAIIAN LIFEGUARD ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +558% · 60% of their budget
Funded once
- CSCollaborative Support Services Incone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -34%
- MMMOC MARINE INSTITUTEone grant, 2022 · $13k
- HFHIKA'ALANI FKA NAONEALAAone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -52%
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.
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.
Kahea is a community-based organization working to improve the quality of life for hawai`i's people and future generations through the revitalization and protection of hawai`i's unique natural and cultural resources. kahea advocates for…
The purpose is to preserve and restore the indigenous hawiian culture, farming traditions, fishing practices and hula.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kua Aina Ulu Auamo and the most unlike its peers is Kapena School of Music. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 15. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 42 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 POLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NA KAMA KAI ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN LIFEGUARD ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Collaborative Support Services Inc ↗
- Who funds HUI ALOHA AINA MOMONA ↗
- Who funds KAULUAKALANA ↗
- Who funds HOOLA MUSIC AND CULTURAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds OUTRIGGER DUKE KAHANAMOKU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Kaha Kukahi ↗
- Who funds HAWAII AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDITH KANAKA'OLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KULEANA CORAL REEFS ↗
- Who funds HULIAUAPAA ↗
- Who funds KAPENA SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds WAIPA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAEPAE O HE'EIA ↗
- Who funds HIKA'ALANI FKA NAONEALAA ↗
- Who funds MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RISE AND SHINE ART ↗
- Who funds KONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KUA AINA ULU AUAMO ↗
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: Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Atherton Family Foundation · Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement · The Strong Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · Johnson Ohana Foundation · Historic Hawai'I Foundation · Hawaii Council for Humanities · Harold Kl Castle Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Aloha United Way Inc
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 Ama Olukai 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.
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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