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Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$298k
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.

Philanthropy$4.7MHealth$1.3MEducation$1.1MArts & Culture$1.1MHuman Services$618kYouth Development$414kCommunity Improvement$410kHousing & Shelter$401kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $503k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $553k
  • $250k+1 grant · $298k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALOHA UNITED WAY$297,500
HAWAII COMMUNITY LENDING$100,000
DYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS$100,000
BANK OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$77,785
PBS HAWAII$75,000
HAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVE$50,000
BLOOD BANK OF HAWAII$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$50,000
HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART$50,000
KUAKINI FOUNDATION$33,000
STRAUB FOUNDATION$33,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII$33,000
Individual grant recipient$26,000
HONOLULU COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM$25,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF HAWAII$25,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $505k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LEGACY OF ALOHA FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%KUKULU KUMUHANA O ANAHOLA: $125 → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $125 → 14%THE LIVING PONO PROJECT: $3k → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $25k → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $25k → 9%KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $20k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $3k → 9%HOSPICE MAUI INC: $4k → 9%SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 9%SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $250 → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF HAWAII: $25k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF HAWAII: $25k → 9%WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 9%WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $375 → 9%PAEPAE O HEEIA: $250 → 9%LET GRACE IN: $875 → 9%MAI MOVEMENT HAWAII INC: $4k → 9%RESPONSIVE CAREGIVERS OF HAWAII: $1k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $25k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $20k → 9%SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER HAWAII: $1k → 9%HALE KIPA: $800 → 9%HALE KIPA: $633 → 9%HALE KIPA: $550 → 9%HALE KIPA: $548 → 9%HALE KIPA: $500 → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $1k → 9%HOSPICE HAWAII INC: $30k → 9%LANAKILA PACIFIC: $15k → 9%EPIC OHANA INC: $10k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $5k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $5k → 9%HOSPICE HAWAII INC: $3k → 9%NAVIAN HAWAII: $3k → 9%HOSPICE HAWAII INC: $2k → 9%HOSPICE HAWAII INC: $2k → 9%HOSPICE HAWAII INC: $2k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $2k → 9%HAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $33k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $30k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $30k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $30k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $30k → 9%HAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $25k → 9%HAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $25k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $10k → 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

WA
NY
PA
CA
VA
TN
HI
GA
TX
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 106 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

106 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 75 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

106
233

Total granted

$6.5M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+16%

Still filing today

76%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k 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
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationAnimalsYouth 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 · $540k · revenue +132%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU
    4× · 2020–2023 · $130k · revenue +97%
  • PM
    Pali Momi Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • HH
    HAWAII HOSPITAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH FDNgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +185%
  • QN
    QUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +31%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +16%
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 - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
2
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
3
Hawaii Education Institute
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4
Hawaii Maritime Center
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5
Papahana Kuaola

Papahana kuaola's mission is to create quality educational programs focused on environmental restoration and economic sustainability fully integrated with hawaiian knowledge in order to exemplify a lifestyle respectful of kanaka, `aina,…

Environment
6
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

To improve the health and well-being of our community.

Human Services
7
Malama Kua Aina
Environment
8
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
9
Hui Malama I Ke Ala Ulili

To re-establish the systems that sustain our community through educational initiatives and land-based practices that cultivate abundance, regenerate responsibilities, and promote collective health and well being.

Community Improvement
10
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
11
Hui Aloha Kiholo

Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance the cultural and natural landscape of the kiholo bay area through collaborative management and active community stewardship.

Arts & Culture
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 Partners in Development Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hpm Building Supply Foundation. 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

261 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. 261 of the 350 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)
55
Early backer (in before they grew)
254/261
Grantees still filing
181/261
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,753,182 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONALOHA UNITED WAY INC: $859,424 · PhilanthropyALOHA UNITED WAY INC+7 more: $63,594 · PhilanthropyHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION DBA PBS HAWAII: $300,125 · OtherHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION DBA PBS …DYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $200,000 · OtherDYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONSHONOLULU ACADEMY OF ARTS DBA HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $165,400 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII: $167,000 · Other+114 more: $2,510,427 · Other+114 moreUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $540,375 · EducationUNIVERSIT…Teach for America Inc: $127,500 · EducationTeach for…PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $125,000 · EducationPUNAHOU S…'IOLANI SCHOOL: $90,000 · Education'IOLANI S…ISLAND SCHOOL: $47,500 · Education+8 more: $68,000 · Education+8 morePali Momi Foundation: $125,000 · HealthKapi'olani Health Foundation: $114,733 · HealthHAWAII HOSPITAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH FDN: $100,000 · HealthStraub Foundation: $67,000 · HealthPARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER: $53,788 · HealthMAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthQUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $50,000 · HealthWAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH &: $50,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $50,000 · HealthKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $39,125 · HealthPROJECT VISION HAWAII: $30,375 · HealthHAWAII PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE: $30,125 · Health+8 more: $98,041 · HealthHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII: $150,000 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $100,000 · Arts & CultureFrom The Heart Productions: $100,000 · Arts & CultureUSS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureMOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC: $86,000 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC FLEET SUBMARINE MEMORIAL ASSOC: $33,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $63,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU: $130,000 · Human ServicesHAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $83,000 · Human ServicesHO'OLA NA PUA: $60,625 · Human ServicesFEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $50,125 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $46,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE HAWAII INC: $42,156 · Human ServicesWAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $20,125 · Human ServicesKAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $20,000 · Human Services+12 more: $70,531 · Human ServicesHAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVE: $175,000 · Community ImprovementHAWAII COMMUNITY LENDING: $110,000 · Community ImprovementKAUAI PLANNING & ACTION ALLIANCE INC: $65,000 · Community ImprovementFAITH ACTION FOR COMMUNITY EQUITY: $35,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$4,676,200Other$3,342,952Education$998,375Health$858,187Arts & Culture$632,000Human Services$572,562Community Improvement$385,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,753,182 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetALOHA UNITED WAY INC: $859,424 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $540,375 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $200,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetHAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVE: $175,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII: $167,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII: $150,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU: $130,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $127,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPali Momi Foundation: $125,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $125,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKapi'olani Health Foundation: $114,733 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY LENDING: $110,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHAWAII HOSPITAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH FDN: $100,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetDIAMOND HEAD THEATRE: $100,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFrom The Heart Productions: $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUSS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF HAWAII INC: $96,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budget'IOLANI SCHOOL: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC: $86,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetHAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $83,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $77,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $75,954 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $75,505 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA -- ALOHA COUNCIL: $75,500 over 3y, 99% of budgetWilcox Health Foundation: $75,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetStraub Foundation: $67,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKUAKINI FOUNDATION: $67,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetKAUAI PLANNING & ACTION ALLIANCE INC: $65,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA: $60,625 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBLOOD BANK OF HAWAII: $54,689 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER: $53,788 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $50,125 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetQUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH &: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND SCHOOL: $47,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $46,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHONOLULU COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $45,125 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE HAWAII INC: $42,156 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII: $39,737 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $39,125 over 3y, 0.1% 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…Aloha United Way IncJ Watumull FundCentral Pacific Bank …Tradewind Group Found…First Hawaiian Bank F…McInerny Foundation--First Insurance Compa…Cooke Foundation Limi…Kosasa FoundationThe Harry and Jeanett…Trustees of the Estat…
Atherton Family FoundationHI183.7× affinity104 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atherton Family Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · J Watumull Fund · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · McInerny Foundation-- · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · Kosasa Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools

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 Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
49report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn 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 350 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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