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Finance Factors Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$94k
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$142kHealth$64kYouth Development$63kCrime & Legal$59kPublic Benefit$54kArts & Culture$49kCommunity Improvement$44kHuman Services$33kOther$0
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$1,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AHAHUI KOA ANENUE$20,000
ASSETS SCHOOL$10,000
AMERICAN JUDICATURE SOCIETY$6,500
THE GIFT FOUDNATION OF HAWAII$6,000
SHIDLER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$5,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII$5,000
HONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH$3,700
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF HAWAII$3,500
THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$3,000
THE LEGAL CLINIC$3,000
HAWAII WOMEN'S LEGAL FOUNDATION$3,000
HAWAII HOMEOWNERSHIP CENTER$2,800
KEIKI O KA AINA FAMILY LEARNING CENTERS$2,500
CHAMBER MUSIC HAWAII$2,500
NATIVE HAWAIIAN LEGAL CORPORATION$2,500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $100 → 9%PALOLO CHINESE HOME: $3k → 9%PALOLO CHINESE HOME: $3k → 9%PALOLO CHINESE HOME: $2k → 9%PALOLO CHINESE HOME: $1k → 9%HOSPICE HAWAII: $3k → 9%HOSPICE HAWAII: $3k → 9%FAMILY HUI HAWAII: $2k → 9%HOSPICE HAWAII: $1k → 9%FAMILY HUI HAWAII: $500 → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $250 → 9%THINKTECH HAWAII: $200 → 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$490k · 61 repeat orgs$142k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
61

Total granted

$490k
$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+17%

Still filing today

56%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionYouth 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

  • AJ
    AMERICAN JUDICATURE SOCIETY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $37k · revenue +132%
  • AS
    ASSETS SCHOOL
    6× · 2018–2024 · $32k · revenue +12%
  • HH
    HAWAII HOMEOWNERSHIP CENTER
    7× · 2018–2024 · $21k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • CA
    CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +21%
  • AL
    AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
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
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
2
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
3
Hawaii Education Institute
—
4
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

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

Human Services
5
Hawaii Public Radio

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.

—
6
Kuakini Foundation

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;…

—
7
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
8
The University of Hawaii Alumni Association

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…

—
9
Uhiwai O Haleakala

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…

Environment
10
Healthcare Association of Hawaii

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.

—
11
Lai Hauola

To preserve the immediate and long-term health and wellbeing of lahaina's diverse communities and precious natural resources.

Food & Nutrition
12
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Homeownership Center; 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.
04the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 134 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/65
Grantees still filing
43/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN JUDICATURE SOCIETY: $37,086 · OtherAMERICAN JUDICATURE SOCIETYCHINESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $21,769 · OtherCHINESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCEIndividual grant recipient: $18,250 · OtherCHINATOWN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $16,200 · Other+102 more: $287,014 · Other+102 moreASSETS SCHOOL: $31,500 · EducationASSETS SCHOO…UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $17,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…SHIDLER COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · EducationSHIDLER COLL…HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationHAWAII PACIF…Teach for America Inc: $3,500 · EducationUC LAW SF FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Education+2 more: $2,000 · EducationGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII: $50,300 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS …KUPU: $16,128 · Youth DevelopmentKUPUKAMP HAWAII INC: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentAmerican Heart Association Inc: $14,602 · HealthRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation: $14,000 · HealthPARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER: $3,500 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII: $2,000 · Health+2 more: $1,702 · HealthCHAMBER MUSIC HAWAII: $14,500 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH: $10,700 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION: $3,750 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $1,150 · Arts & CultureAHAHUI KOA ANUENUE: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsAIO FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Recreation & SportsHAWAII HOMEOWNERSHIP CENTER: $21,300 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$380,319Education$72,500Youth Development$69,428Health$35,804Arts & Culture$32,100Recreation & Sports$23,000Housing & Shelter$21,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII: $50,300 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN JUDICATURE SOCIETY: $37,086 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetASSETS SCHOOL: $31,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII HOMEOWNERSHIP CENTER: $21,300 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetAHAHUI KOA ANUENUE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKUPU: $16,128 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $14,602 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC HAWAII: $14,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation: $14,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH: $10,700 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSHIDLER COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $9,940 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST ANDREW'S SCHOOLS: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPALOLO CHINESE HOME: $8,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIFT FOUNDATION OF HAWAII: $8,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHAWAII WOMEN'S LEGAL FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE HAWAIIAN LEGAL CORPORATION: $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOSPICE HAWAII INC: $7,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FILIPINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION: $3,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF HAWAII INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUC LAW SF FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAIO FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetVOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES HAWAII: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKAMP HAWAII INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE LEGAL CLINIC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPACIFIC GATEWAY CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY HUI HAWAII: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHONOLULU SYMPHONY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHELTER: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHONOLULU FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALOHA UNITED WAY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLES R KENDALL SCHOLARSHIP & EDUCATION FUND: $1,300 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,125 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-ALOHA COUNCIL #104: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII AG AND CULINARY ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AUTISM SOCIETY OF HAWAII: $1,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHAWAII CHILDREN'S ACTION NETWORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBINHI AT ANI: $750 over 1y, 0.2% 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 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 THE GIFT FOUNDATION OF HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII WOMEN'S LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE HAWAIIAN LEGAL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE HAWAII INC ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE FILIPINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Tradewind Group Found…Aloha United Way IncFirst Insurance Compa…J Watumull FundBank of Hawaii Charit…Atherton Family Found…Central Pacific Bank …First Hawaiian Bank F…The Queen's Medical C…The Harry and Jeanett…Hemic FoundationLocations Foundation
Tradewind Group FoundationHI71.4× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
    20report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Finance Factors Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Finance Factors Foundation 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 134 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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