· Private foundation
First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k73 grants · $247k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $294k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION | $47,450 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $25,000 |
| MALAMA LEARNING CENTER | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO | $20,000 |
| ALOHA UNITED WAY | $16,464 |
| MAKE A WISH HAWAII | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF HONOLULU | $10,000 |
| HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $158k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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 +24% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
93 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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 FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +164%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $354k · revenue +43%
- AUALOHA UNITED WAY INC6× · 2019–2025 · $139k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- HSHI SHAREone grant, 2019 · $25k
- TCTHE CROWN PRINCE AKIHITO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +15%
- WMWEST MAUI IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -34%
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…
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 improve the health and well-being of our community.
Kapi'olani medical specialists (dba hawai'i pacific health medical group) is a multispecialty provider group dedicated to providing world-class care for adults and children across hawai'i and the pacific region working in partnership with…
To preserve the immediate and long-term health and wellbeing of lahaina's diverse communities and precious natural resources.
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.
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Hawaii and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 35 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 — 0.6% 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.
156 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. 156 of the 197 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 UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds MALAMA LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds BISHOP MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Kapi'olani Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds MAUI ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII ISLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD ↗
- Who funds JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETY OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII HOMEOWNERSHIP CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE COASTLINES HAWAI'I ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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: Aloha United Way Inc · Tradewind Group Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Atherton Family Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · McInerny Foundation-- · Kosasa Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · The Queen's Medical Center · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc
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 First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable 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.
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% 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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