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Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement

The COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT (cnha) is a member-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to enhance the cultural, economic, political, and community development of native hawaiians.

$30M
Granted FY2024still arriving
137
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$2.3MRecreation & Sports$1.0MEnvironment$846kCommunity Improvement$838kPublic Safety & Disaster$360kHousing & Shelter$250kEducation$244kHuman Services$214kOther$0
02FY2024 · 137 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 137 grants below total $6,158,597 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $29,593,103 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $23,434,506 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k94 grants · $2.4M
  • $50k–250k33 grants · $3.4M
  • $250k+1 grant · $350k
$28,700
Median grant
4
States reached
$83M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRAVITAS PASIFIKA LLC$350,000
KAHULI LEO LEA$213,000
WORLD TRIATHLON CORPORATION$210,000
HONOLULU MARATHON ASSOCIATION$175,000
OAHU HAWAIIAN CANOE RACING ASSOCIATION HAWAII$165,000
KEMPER SPORTS MARKETING LLC$161,000
POLYNESIAN FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME$155,000
EKOLU MEA NUI$150,000
STATE FOUNDATION ON CULTURE & THE ARTS$140,000
HAWAII FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL$133,000
MAKANA O KE AKUA INC$125,000
ALOHA FESTIVALS$120,000
KAULUAKALANA$114,800
KAPALUA MAUI CHARITIES INC$110,000
HAWAII UNITED OKINAWA ASSOCIATION$105,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $174k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOSPICE OF HILO: $30k → 15%ARTS EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN GROUP: $14k → 9%KAHUMANA COMMUNITY CENTER: $63k → 9%KAHUMANA ORGANIC FARMS: $19k → 9%KUALOA-HE'EIA ECUNEMICAL YOUTH (KEY) PROJECT: $18k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $30k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

10%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$736k · 6 repeat orgs$6.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +138% since the first grant, against +64% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 131 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
30

Total granted

$736k
$768k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+138%
+64%

Still filing today

83%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • MO
    MAKANA O KE AKUA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue +1%
  • NH
    NATIVE HAWAIIAN LEGAL CORPORATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $164k · revenue +58%
  • K
    KAULUAKALANA
    2× · 2021–2024 · $164k · revenue +169%

Funded once

  • EC
    EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $128k · revenue +66%
  • AS
    ALTERNATIVE STRUCTURES INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2021 · $82k · revenue -21%
  • PK
    PAPAHANA KUAOLAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $59k · revenue +45%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
2
Hiikua a Hiialo Cultural Foundation
Arts & Culture
3
Na Mamo o Kawa

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.

Environment
4
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
5
Lanikuhonua Cultural Institute
—
6
Malama Kua Aina
Environment
7
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
—
8
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
9
Ka Makani Kaili Koa

Operating exclusively for charitable, educational, scientific, and literary purposes, the organization preserves and advances Native Hawaiian culture through education, leadership, and STREAMY integration: Sciences, Technologies, Reading,…

Arts & Culture
10
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
11
Kahea the Hawaiian Environmental Alliance

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…

Environment
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kipahulu Ohana Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Cultural Arts Network. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHawaii Community Support Se…Hawaii Health SystemsHawaii Community Organizati…Hawaiian Outrigger Canoe Or…Family & Community Support …Hawaii Performing Arts Orga…Community Health CentersResidential Community Assoc…Member Recreation ClubsLow-Income Housing Developm…Asian-American Family Found…Independent Schools Hawaii
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 20 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%8%<5yr15%19%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr18%32%20–35yr12%13%35–55yr13%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%6%<5yr15%23%5–10yr18%25%10–20yr18%30%20–35yr12%13%35–55yr13%4%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
7/165
the rest of the field
13%
1,068/7,934

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.

04the grantee network

132 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. 132 of the 167 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
123/132
Grantees still filing
47/132
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GRAVITAS PASIFIKA LLC — $350,000 · OtherGRAVITAS PASIFIKA LLCWorld Triathlon Corporation — $210,000 · OtherWorld Triathlon CorporationHONOLULU MARATHON ASSOCIATION — $175,000 · OtherKEMPER SPORTS MARKETING LLC — $161,000 · OtherHAWAII STATE ART MUSEUM — $140,000 · OtherMALAMA LOKO EA FOUNDATION — $123,383 · OtherPOLYNESIAN FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME — $155,000 · OtherHAWAII AG AND CULINARY ALLIANCE — $161,700 · OtherEAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION — $127,652 · Other+79 more — $2,030,111 · Other+79 moreKAHULI LEO LEA — $213,000 · Arts & CultureKAHULI LEO LEAOAHU HAWAIIAN CANOE RACING ASSOCIATION HAWAII — $165,000 · Arts & CultureOAHU HAWAIIAN CANOE RACING…ALOHA WEEK HAWAII INC DBA ALOHA FESTIVALS — $120,000 · Arts & CultureALOHA WEEK HAWAII INC DBA …HAWAII UNITED OKINAWA ASSOCIATION — $105,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII UNITED OKINAWA ASSO…LALAKEA FOUNDATION — $101,070 · Arts & CultureLALAKEA FOUNDATIONPohaha I Ka Lani — $100,000 · Arts & CulturePohaha I Ka LaniPAI FOUNDATION — $96,000 · Arts & CulturePAI FOUNDATIONTHE MERRIE MONARCH FESTIVAL — $90,000 · Arts & Culture+27 more — $708,387 · Arts & Culture+27 moreTHE KOHALA CENTER — $72,000 · EnvironmentPAPAHANA KUAOLA — $58,787 · EnvironmentKUA AINA ULU AUAMO — $49,536 · EnvironmentFriends of Auwahi Forest Restoration Project — $40,000 · EnvironmentHULIAUAPAA — $32,079 · EnvironmentHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST — $32,000 · EnvironmentKIPAHULU OHANA INC — $32,000 · EnvironmentPROTECT & PRESERVE HAWAII INC — $32,000 · EnvironmentMOLOKAI LAND TRUST — $30,000 · EnvironmentKANU HAWAII — $28,000 · EnvironmentWAIKOLOA DRY FOREST INITIATIVE INC — $27,200 · EnvironmentPACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EnvironmentKOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION — $24,000 · Environment+3 more — $41,000 · EnvironmentKAULUAKALANA — $164,067 · Community ImprovementHAWAII COMMUNITY LENDING — $100,000 · Community ImprovementLOKAHI PACIFIC — $55,000 · Community ImprovementRICE STREET BUSINESS ASSOCIATION — $47,600 · Community ImprovementKAKOO OIWI — $46,669 · Community ImprovementKAILUA VILLAGE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC — $35,000 · Community ImprovementASSOCIATION OF HAWAIIAN CIVIC CLUBS — $28,000 · Community ImprovementULU A E LEARNING CENTER — $22,560 · Community Improvement+2 more — $15,500 · Community ImprovementMAKANA O KE AKUA INC — $250,000 · HealthIMUA FAMILY SERVICES — $50,000 · HealthKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES — $20,000 · HealthEDITH KANAKA'OLE FOUNDATION — $60,000 · EducationMOLOKAI HOMESTEAD FARMERS ALLIANCE — $45,000 · EducationMANA MAOLI — $37,000 · EducationEA ECOVERSITY — $32,000 · EducationNA AIKANE O MAUI INC — $25,000 · EducationYouth in Motion — $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $22,610 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR NATIVE PACIFIC EDUCATION AND CULTURE — $16,930 · EducationGrants Central Station — $15,000 · EducationHawaii Farmers Union Foundation — $12,513 · Education+3 more — $27,000 · EducationNATIVE HAWAIIAN LEGAL CORPORATION — $164,455 · Crime & LegalEKOLU MEA NUI — $150,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$3,633,846Arts & Culture$1,698,457Environment$523,602Community Improvement$514,396Health$320,000Education$318,053Crime & Legal$314,455

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMAKANA O KE AKUA INC — $250,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetKAHULI LEO LEA — $213,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetHONOLULU MARATHON ASSOCIATION — $175,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetOAHU HAWAIIAN CANOE RACING ASSOCIATION HAWAII — $165,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetNATIVE HAWAIIAN LEGAL CORPORATION — $164,455 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetKAULUAKALANA — $164,067 over 2y, 15% of budgetHAWAII AG AND CULINARY ALLIANCE — $161,700 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetEAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION — $127,652 over 1y, 12% of budgetMALAMA LOKO EA FOUNDATION — $123,383 over 2y, 12% of budgetALOHA WEEK HAWAII INC DBA ALOHA FESTIVALS — $120,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetKAPALUA MAUI CHARITIES INC — $110,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetHAWAII UNITED OKINAWA ASSOCIATION — $105,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetLALAKEA FOUNDATION — $101,070 over 1y, 34% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY LENDING — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPohaha I Ka Lani — $100,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetPAI FOUNDATION — $96,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetTHE MERRIE MONARCH FESTIVAL — $90,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetALTERNATIVE STRUCTURES INTERNATIONAL — $82,289 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKUPU — $80,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE KOHALA CENTER — $72,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetYOUNG OF HEART WORKSHOP — $69,833 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetEDITH KANAKA'OLE FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetPAPAHANA KUAOLA — $58,787 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetLOKAHI PACIFIC — $55,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC — $52,500 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetHAWAIIAN CANOE RACING ASSOCIATION — $52,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetPAN-PACIFIC FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetIMUA FAMILY SERVICES — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAHA PUNANA LEO — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKUA AINA ULU AUAMO — $49,536 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetKALA FOUNDATION — $49,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetMAUI DANCE COUNCIL — $49,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetKUMANO I KE ALA O MAKAWELI — $48,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE — $48,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRICE STREET BUSINESS ASSOCIATION — $47,600 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetKAKOO OIWI — $46,669 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetODKF SUPPORT INC — $45,500 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetMOLOKAI HOMESTEAD FARMERS ALLIANCE — $45,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHawaiian Music Perpetuation Society — $40,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetFriends of Auwahi Forest Restoration Project — $40,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetACCESSURF HAWAII INC — $40,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetKealakai Center For Pacific String Traditions — $40,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMALIE FOUNDATION — $37,500 over 1y, 27% of budgetKANEHUNAMOKU VOYAGING ACADEMY — $37,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMANA MAOLI — $37,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetKAILUA VILLAGE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC — $35,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL — $35,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE GARDEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL — $34,500 over 1y, 26% of budget
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.

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.

Hawaii Visitors and C…Trustees of the Estat…Atherton Family Found…Hawaii Council for Hu…Tradewind Group Found…Central Pacific Bank …Kosasa FoundationThe Harry and Jeanett…The People's FundAloha United Way IncCooke Foundation Limi…Bank of Hawaii Charit…
Hawaii Visitors and Convention BureauHI106× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau · Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Atherton Family Foundation · Hawaii Council for Humanities · Tradewind Group Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Kosasa Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The People's Fund · Aloha United Way Inc · Cooke Foundation Limited · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn

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 Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    48report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 167 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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