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Ehw Broadbent Foundation at a glance

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Ehw Broadbent Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$89k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$267kEducation$205kYouth Development$36kEnvironment$16kReligion$15kFood & Nutrition$15kHuman Services$7kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$706k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAIOLI CORPORATION (GF MUSEUM)$10,000
KONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$6,000
LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION$6,000
KAUAI MUSEUM$6,000
HUI NO'EAU VISUAL ARTS CENTER$6,000
UH FOUNDATION$5,000
PROJECT HAWAII INC$5,000
UH FOUNDATION$5,000
UH FOUNDATION$5,000
WAIANAE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT CORP (MA'O ORGANIC FARMS)$5,000
HUI O LAKA-KOKEE MUSEUM$5,000
UH FOUNDATION$5,000
UH FOUNDATION$5,000
GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF HAWAII$2,000
ALEXANDER & BALDWIN SUGAR MUSEUM$2,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HUI NO'EAU VISUAL ARTS CENTER: $6k → 9%HUI O LAKA-KOKEE MUSEUM: $8k → 9%UH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%LYMAN MUSEUM: $5k → 15%HUI O LAKA-KOKEE MUSEUM: $6k → 9%UH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%HUI O LAKA-KOKEE MUSEUM: $5k → 9%UH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%HUI O LAKA-KOKEE MUSEUM: $5k → 9%UH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%HUI O LAKA-KOKEE MUSEUM: $5k → 9%UH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%HUI O LAKA-KOKEE MUSEUM: $5k → 9%UH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%HUI O LAKA-KOKEE MUSEUM: $5k → 9%UH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%HUI O LAKA-KOKEE MUSEUM: $5k → 9%UH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%MAUI HULIAU FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%WAIOLI CORPORATION (GF MUSEUM): $10k → 9%UH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%KONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6k → 15%WAIOLI CORPORATION (GF MUSEUM): $8k → 9%UH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%LANAI CULTURE & HERITAGE CENTER: $6k → 9%KAUAI MUSEUM: $6k → 9%UH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%LANAI ART CENTER: $6k → 9%KAUAI MUSEUM: $6k → 9%UH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%LANAI CULTURE & HERITAGE CENTER: $5k → 9%WAIOLI CORPORATION (GF MUSEUM): $5k → 9%UH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%UH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%UH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%UH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%UH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%VOLCANO ART CENTER: $6k → 15%UH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%UH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION: $6k → 9%UH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%UH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%UH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%UH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF HAWAII: $6k → 9%HAWAIIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $9k → 9%HAWAII THEATRE CENTER: $6k → 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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$560k · 24 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
1

Total granted

$560k
$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+51%

Still filing today

71%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 & CultureEducationAnimalsYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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
    8× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +56%
  • HO
    HUI O LAKA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +10%
  • TL
    THE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +621%

Funded once

  • KH
    KAUAI HUMANE SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +51%
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
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
2
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
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
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
5
Hanalei River Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Hiikua a Hiialo Cultural Foundation
Arts & Culture
7
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
8
Na Hoa Aloha O Ka Pu Uhonua O Honaunau

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.

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9
Lanikuhonua Cultural Institute
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10
Hawaii Maritime Center
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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
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaiian Historical Society; the most unlike its peers is Kamawaelualani Corp. 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

20 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. 20 of the 28 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)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $205,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION+1 more: $6,000 · EducationWAIOLI CORPORATION (GF MUSEUM): $40,500 · OtherWAIOLI CORPORATION (GF MUSEUM)GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF HAWAII: $20,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF HAWAIIKAUAI MUSEUM: $18,000 · OtherKAUAI MUSEUMBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-ALOHA COUNCIL #104: $16,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-ALOHA COUNCIL #…OHANA KOMPUTER: $15,000 · OtherOHANA KOMPUTERHO'OPULAPULA HARAGUCHI RICE MILL: $14,500 · OtherHO'OPULAPULA HARAGUCHI RICE MILLHUI NO'EAU: $13,000 · OtherHUI NO'EAULANAI ART CENTER: $12,500 · OtherLANAI ART CENTERLYMAN MUSEUM: $12,000 · OtherLYMAN MUSEUMKAUAI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $8,000 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCY OF HAWAII: $8,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY HAWAII: $7,000 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherHUI O LAKA: $43,515 · Arts & CultureHUI O LAKATHE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION: $23,500 · Arts & CultureTHE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDAT…HAWAIIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $19,500 · Arts & CultureHAWAIIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETYALEXANDER & BALDWIN SUGAR MUSEUM: $18,500 · Arts & CultureALEXANDER & BALDWIN SUGAR MUSEU…KONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15,500 · Arts & CultureKONA HISTORICAL SOCIETYHAWAII THEATRE CENTER: $13,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII THEATRE CENTERVOLCANO ART CENTER: $13,000 · Arts & CultureVOLCANO ART CENTERLANA'I CULTURE & HERITAGE CENTER: $12,000 · Arts & CultureLANA'I CULTURE & HERITAGE CENTE…+1 more: $4,000 · Arts & CulturePROJECT HAWAII INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyKOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION: $2,000 · EnvironmentKAUAI HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · Animals
Education$211,000Other$189,500Arts & Culture$162,515Youth Development$5,000Philanthropy$5,000Environment$2,000Animals$1,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $205,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHUI O LAKA: $43,515 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetTHE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION: $23,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAIIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $19,500 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetALEXANDER & BALDWIN SUGAR MUSEUM: $18,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-ALOHA COUNCIL #104: $16,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetKONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15,500 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetOHANA KOMPUTER: $15,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetHO'OPULAPULA HARAGUCHI RICE MILL: $14,500 over 8y, 16% of budgetHAWAII THEATRE CENTER: $13,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetHUI NO'EAU: $13,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetVOLCANO ART CENTER: $13,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetLANA'I CULTURE & HERITAGE CENTER: $12,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetKAUAI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $8,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetMaui Huliau Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPROJECT HAWAII INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAMAWAELUALANI CORP: $4,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetKOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKAUAI HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HUI O LAKA ↗
  • Who funds THE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAWAIIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ALEXANDER & BALDWIN SUGAR MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-ALOHA COUNCIL #104 ↗
  • Who funds KONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds OHANA KOMPUTER ↗
  • Who funds HO'OPULAPULA HARAGUCHI RICE MILL ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII THEATRE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HUI NO'EAU ↗
  • Who funds VOLCANO ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LANA'I CULTURE & HERITAGE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KAUAI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Maui Huliau Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HAWAII INC ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KAMAWAELUALANI CORP ↗
  • Who funds KOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KAUAI HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗

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.

Hawaii Council for Hu…Atherton Family Found…The Strong FoundationFred Baldwin Memorial…J Watumull FundHawaii Visitors and C…Kosasa FoundationCouncil for Native Ha…American Endowment Fo…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…
Hawaii Council for HumanitiesHI22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hawaii Council for Humanities · Atherton Family Foundation · The Strong Foundation · Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau · Kosasa Foundation · Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Ehw Broadbent Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ehw Broadbent Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.

    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 28 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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