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Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc
Friends of hawaii charities activates financial resources from the private sector and spirited volunteerism from the community, in concert with the extraordinary natural resources of the state, to produce sports and cultural events that generate funds for qualifying not-for-profit endeavors in hawaii benefiting its women, children,…
Read this first · the figures below need context
90% of Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Hawaii Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc named its own grantees at scale: 68 organizations, $908k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 72 grants below total $908,454 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,205,552 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $297,098 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k37 grants · $248k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $561k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORLD GOLF FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WORLD GOLF FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI | $42,128 |
| HAWAII FOODBANK INC | $35,346 |
| COMMON GRACE | $31,007 |
| WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER | $27,145 |
| WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER | $27,145 |
| HUGS FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN & THEIR FAMILIES | $26,201 |
| ALOHA HARVEST | $22,114 |
| READ TO ME INTERNATIONAL | $20,931 |
| IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC | $18,085 |
| MOLOKAI ARTS CENTER | $17,964 |
| HAWAII HOMEOWNERSHIP CENTER | $16,184 |
| FAMILY MINISTRIES CENTER | $16,116 |
| RIVER OF LIFE MISSION | $15,552 |
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 (FY21–22, $335k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 20% of Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in HI; read by stated purpose it is 86% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
56 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- HFHAWAII FOODBANK INC2× · 2021–2022 · $86k · revenue +12%
- CGCOMMON GRACE2× · 2021–2022 · $69k · revenue +37%
- WCWAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER2× · 2021–2022 · $66k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- THTHE HAWAII JAPANESE SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +61%
- HFHAWAII FI-DO SERVICE DOGSone grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue +18%
- FHFAMILY HUI HAWAIIgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue +115%
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.
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 provide "culturally-minded evidenced-based behavioral health care that is responsive to the needs of the medically underserved, predominantly native hawaiian, and rural communities. the organization provides behavioral health services…
To improve access to healthcare, hygiene care, social services, and to provide transitional and permanent housing to hawaii's homeless and underserved populations. provide walk-in medical clinic services in honolulu regardless of an…
Palliative care is a win-win-win-win. expanding access to palliative care benefits all parts of the healthcare system. people living with serious illness are better able to manage physical and emotional symptoms and have peace of mind that…
Ohana makame inc is a behavioral health agency whose mission is to provide counseling and other related resources to the residents of east maui.
Hui malama ola na 'oiwi is a community-based native hawaiian health care system whose mission is to improve the provision of comprehensive disease prevention, health promotion, and primary care services on hawaii island.
The mission of hui no ke ola pono is to improve the health status of native hawaiians by empowering the present and future generations to be their own health advocates. hui no ke ola pono serves as a "bridge" to the native hawaiian…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Hawaii Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lunalilo Home. 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 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
114 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. 114 of the 119 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 HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON GRACE ↗
- Who funds WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI ↗
- Who funds ALOHA HARVEST ↗
- Who funds POLYNESIAN FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds H U G S FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds READ TO ME INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TOUCH A HEART INC ↗
- Who funds HUNAKAI PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PURPLE MAIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY MINISTRIES CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HAWAII HOMEOWNERSHIP CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOLOKAI ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Hawaii Lions Foundation ↗
- Who funds HAWAII CORD BLOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Hui O Mana Ka Pu-uwai Outrigger Canoe Club ↗
- Who funds HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds KAUAI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII ISLAND ADULT CARE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HAWAII RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PU'A FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUTTER HEALTH PACIFIC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds THE HAWAII JAPANESE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RESPONSIVE CAREGIVERS OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds LUNALILO HOME ↗
- Who funds HO'OLA NA PUA ↗
- Who funds Kapi'olani Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds SURFING THE NATIONS ↗
- Who funds HALE OPIO KAUAI INC ↗
- Who funds HOA AINA O MAKAHA ↗
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: Atherton Family Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · J Watumull Fund · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · Hawaii Hotel Industry Foundation · McInerny Foundation-- · Tradewind Group Foundation · Hawaii Foodbank 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 Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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.