· Private foundation
Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $503k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $553k
- $250k+1 grant · $298k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART | $50,000 |
| BLOOD BANK OF HAWAII | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII | $33,000 |
| STRAUB FOUNDATION | $33,000 |
| KUAKINI FOUNDATION | $33,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $26,000 |
| HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $495k) 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. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +28% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $540k · revenue +132%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU4× · 2020–2023 · $130k · revenue +97%
- PMPali Momi Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- HHHAWAII HOSPITAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH FDNgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +185%
- QNQUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITALgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +31%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +16%
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.
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,…
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
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.
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners in Development Foundation and 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
260 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. 260 of the 350 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds HAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds Pali Momi Foundation ↗
- Who funds PUNAHOU SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Kapi'olani Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY LENDING ↗
- Who funds DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE ↗
- Who funds HAWAII HOSPITAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH FDN ↗
- Who funds From The Heart Productions ↗
- Who funds USS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds 'IOLANI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA -- ALOHA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Wilcox Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds Straub Foundation ↗
- Who funds KUAKINI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KAUAI PLANNING & ACTION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HO'OLA NA PUA ↗
- Who funds BLOOD BANK OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds PARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER ↗
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: 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
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 Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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