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Finance Factors 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AHAHUI KOA ANENUE | $20,000 |
| ASSETS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN JUDICATURE SOCIETY | $6,500 |
| THE GIFT FOUDNATION OF HAWAII | $6,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII | $5,000 |
| SHIDLER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| HONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH | $3,700 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF HAWAII | $3,500 |
| THE LEGAL CLINIC | $3,000 |
| HAWAII WOMEN'S LEGAL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| HAWAII HOMEOWNERSHIP CENTER | $2,800 |
| KEIKI O KA AINA FAMILY LEARNING CENTERS | $2,500 |
| NATIVE HAWAIIAN LEGAL CORPORATION | $2,500 |
| CHAMBER MUSIC HAWAII | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
61 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 11 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- AJAMERICAN JUDICATURE SOCIETY6× · 2019–2024 · $37k · revenue +132%
- ASASSETS SCHOOL6× · 2018–2024 · $32k · revenue +12%
- HHHAWAII HOMEOWNERSHIP CENTER7× · 2018–2024 · $21k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HAWAIIone grant, 2020 · $10k
- CACHILD AND FAMILY SERVICEone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +21%
- ALAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $6k
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.
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…
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
The mission of hawai'i public radio is to serve the people of hawai'i by informing with essential news, inspiring through the power of music and the arts, and connecting through conversations and convenings.
The mission of kuakini foundation is to improve the health status of the community by: providing comprehensive health care services and programs at reasonable cost; continuously improving the quality of health care services and programs;…
To advance the interests of the university of hawaii, alumni, and friends through mutually beneficial and lifelong relationships, to generate support for the university, and to participate in events that showcase the university's…
The mission of the corporation shall be to work with partners to protect and restore native ecosystems and watersheds, to improve the quality and quantity of freshwater resources to perpetuate hawaiian cultural resources and practices, to…
The mission of the healthcare association of hawaii is to be hawaii's most effective advocate for the comprehensive and financially strong healthcare system that successfully responds to the diverse and changing needs of all we serve.
To preserve the immediate and long-term health and wellbeing of lahaina's diverse communities and precious natural resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Homeownership Center and the most unlike its peers is Hisis. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 134 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 GIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JUDICATURE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ASSETS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HAWAII HOMEOWNERSHIP CENTER ↗
- Who funds AHAHUI KOA ANUENUE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KUPU ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC HAWAII ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHIDLER COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds PALOLO CHINESE HOME ↗
- Who funds HAWAII WOMEN'S LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GIFT FOUNDATION OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds NATIVE HAWAIIAN LEGAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds THE FILIPINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION ↗
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: Tradewind Group Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Atherton Family Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · The Queen's Medical Center · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Hemic Foundation · Locations Foundation
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 Finance Factors 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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