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First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation at a glance

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First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$541k
Granted FY2025still arriving
88
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$47k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$1.3MHealth$815kPublic Safety & Disaster$310kArts & Culture$296kEnvironment$240kPhilanthropy$190kHuman Services$188kYouth Development$142kOther$0
02FY2025 · 88 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k73 grants · $247k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $294k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$47,450
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$30,000
MALAMA LEARNING CENTER$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$25,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$20,000
HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO$20,000
ALOHA UNITED WAY$16,464
HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS$10,000
HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$10,000
MAKE A WISH HAWAII$10,000
YMCA OF HONOLULU$10,000
CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES$10,000
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:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SERTOMA INC: $500 → 15%ONESIGHT: $3k → 6%KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $10k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $10k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $8k → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER - THE PANTRY: $5k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $5k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $5k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $5k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $250 → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER - THE PANTRY: $200 → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $150 → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $5k → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $5k → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $5k → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $5k → 9%THE TODDLER PROGRAM: $1k → 9%THE TODDLER PROGRAM: $500 → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $5k → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $100 → 9%HOSPICE HAWAII INC: $5k → 9%NAVIAN HAWAII: $5k → 9%NAVIAN HAWAII: $3k → 9%LANAKILA PACIFIC: $250 → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $10k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $8k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $5k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $5k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $5k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $5k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $5k → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $5k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $2k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $2k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $2k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $2k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $500 → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $500 → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $250 → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $250 → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $100 → 9%K MARK TAKAI FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%K MARK TAKAI FOUNDATION: $2k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
NY
MA
OH
CA
CO
MO
VA
NC
DC
HI
OK
TX
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 93 repeat orgs$295k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

93
87

Total granted

$3.5M
$249k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+19%

Still filing today

85%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalOther
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
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +164%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $354k · revenue +43%
  • AU
    ALOHA UNITED WAY INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $139k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • HS
    HI SHARE
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • TC
    THE CROWN PRINCE AKIHITO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +15%
  • UJ
    US- JAPAN COUNCIL
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
2
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
3
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
4
Hawaii Education Institute
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5
Hawaii Maritime Center
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6
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
7
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;…

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8
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

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

Human Services
9
Kapi'olani Medical Specialists

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…

Health
10
Lai Hauola

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

Food & Nutrition
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
Papahana Kuaola

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,…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Hawaii; 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.
04the grantee network

156 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
151/156
Grantees still filing
102/156
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $1,097,922 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATIONMALAMA LEARNING CENTER: $120,000 · EducationMALAMA LEARNING CENTERTeach for America Inc: $55,000 · Education+10 more: $45,563 · EducationAMERICAN RED CROSS: $294,815 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $112,680 · OtherHAWAII PUBLIC RADIOGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII: $58,880 · Other+116 more: $800,812 · Other+116 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc: $353,524 · HealthAmerican Heart Assoc…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII: $75,870 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATI…MARCH OF DIMES INC: $44,500 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INCTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $35,000 · HealthKapi'olani Health Foundation: $31,065 · Health+20 more: $155,338 · Health+20 moreALOHA UNITED WAY INC: $138,927 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF HAWAII CHARITIES INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $5,453 · PhilanthropyHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $60,000 · Arts & CultureBISHOP MUSEUM: $32,500 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION: $23,000 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII: $13,500 · Arts & CultureHAWAII OPERA THEATRE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureOHANA ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII THEATRE CENTER: $8,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $24,675 · Arts & CultureYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU: $52,100 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS HAWAII: $43,100 · Human ServicesAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $30,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE HAWAII INC: $12,750 · Human Services+9 more: $20,408 · Human ServicesHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $52,850 · Food & NutritionHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $21,868 · Food & NutritionKAUAI FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD BASKET INC: $6,500 · Food & NutritionALOHA HARVEST: $4,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$1,318,485Other$1,267,187Health$695,297Philanthropy$189,380Arts & Culture$181,675Human Services$158,358Food & Nutrition$95,218

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: $1,097,922 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $353,524 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALOHA UNITED WAY INC: $138,927 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMALAMA LEARNING CENTER: $120,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $112,680 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII: $75,870 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII: $58,880 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $52,850 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU: $52,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $44,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HANDS HAWAII: $43,100 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetST ANDREW'S SCHOOLS: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBISHOP MUSEUM: $32,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $32,330 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKapi'olani Health Foundation: $31,065 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMAUI ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC: $27,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII ISLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD: $25,000 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetJAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETY OF HAWAII: $24,500 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetHISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION: $23,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $21,868 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $21,713 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetHAWAII HOMEOWNERSHIP CENTER: $21,130 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSUSTAINABLE COASTLINES HAWAI'I: $20,660 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $20,338 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS HAWAII: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $19,780 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $16,635 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $16,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN HAWAII: $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetH U G S FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES: $14,375 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetJAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII: $13,500 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $13,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE HAWAII INC: $12,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTREES FOR HONOLULU'S FUTURE: $12,660 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetIMUA FAMILY SERVICES: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKa Lima O Maui Ltd: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALOHA MEDICAL MISSION: $10,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHAWAII OPERA THEATRE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CROWN PRINCE AKIHITO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetHonolulu Sertoma Club: $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetUS- JAPAN COUNCIL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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 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 ↗

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.

Aloha United Way IncTradewind Group Found…J Watumull FundBank of Hawaii Charit…Atherton Family Found…Central Pacific Bank …McInerny Foundation--Kosasa FoundationFirst Hawaiian Bank F…The Queen's Medical C…The Harry and Jeanett…Friends of Hawaii Cha…
Aloha United Way IncHI126.9× affinity62 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
40report 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.
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Find your warmest path to First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable 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 197 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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