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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,…

$1.2M
Granted FY2022
72
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

105
’21
68
’22
1
’23
2
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$869kPhilanthropy$639kFood & Nutrition$470kHealth$352kRecreation & Sports$318kEducation$200kHousing & Shelter$127kYouth Development$89kOther$0
02FY2022 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 72 grants below total $908,454, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,205,552 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $297,098 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k37 grants · $248k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $561k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$9,614
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HAWAII ISLAND ADULT CARE: $12k → 15%HALE 'OPIO KAUAI INC: $9k → 9%HALE OPIO KAUAI INC: $8k → 9%HAWAII ISLAND ADULT CARE INC: $10k → 15%WOMEN IN NEED (WIN KAUAI): $8k → 9%SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER HAWAII: $7k → 9%KAUA'I NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $12k → 9%SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER HAWAII: $6k → 9%HOSPICE OF HILO: $5k → 15%LIFE'S BRIDGES HAWAII INC: $5k → 9%NA HOALOHA-MAUI INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $7k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $15k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $12k → 9%HOSPICE HAWAII INC: $10k → 9%PATCH: $7k → 9%NAVIAN HAWAII (FORMERLY HOSPICE HAWAII): $6k → 9%PATCH (PEOPLE ATTENTIVE TO CHILDREN): $5k → 9%PANTRY BY FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER (THE PANTRY) THE: $12k → 9%THE PANTRY BY FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $8k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $8k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $7k → 9%WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $27k → 9%WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $27k → 9%WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $12k → 9%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $5k → 9%KEIKI TO KUPUNA FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%TOUCH A HEART INC: $18k → 9%TOUCH A HEART: $15k → 9%RESPONSIVE CAREGIVERS OF HAWAII: $12k → 9%RESPONSIVE CAREGIVERS OF HAWAII: $8k → 9%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OAHU: $8k → 9%AFTER SCHOOL ALL STARS HAWAII: $5k → 9%HAWAII STATE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $5k → 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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 20% of Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in HI; by stated purpose, 86%.

Friends of Hawaii Charities Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 56 repeat orgs$484k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
49

Total granted

$1.6M
$327k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+25%

Still filing today

93%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • HF
    HAWAII FOODBANK INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $86k · revenue +12%
  • CG
    COMMON GRACE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $69k · revenue +37%
  • WC
    WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER
    2× · 2021–2022 · $66k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HAWAII JAPANESE SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +61%
  • HF
    HAWAII FI-DO SERVICE DOGS
    one grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue +18%
  • FH
    FAMILY HUI HAWAIIgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue +115%
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
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

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

Human Services
4
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
5
Hawaii Education Institute
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6
I Ola Lahui Inc

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…

Health
7
Hawaii Homeless Healthcare Hui

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…

Health
8
Hui Pohala

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…

Health
9
Ohana Makamae Inc

Ohana makame inc is a behavioral health agency whose mission is to provide counseling and other related resources to the residents of east maui.

Health
10
Hui Malama Ola Na Oiwi

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.

—
11
Hui No Ke Ola Pono Inc

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…

—
12
Hawaii Maritime Center
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Hawaii Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

114 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. 114 of the 119 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/114
Grantees still filing
86/114
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,220,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+3 more: $32,547 · PhilanthropyWAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $65,935 · Human ServicesWAIKIKI COMMU…TOUCH A HEART INC: $33,342 · Human ServicesTOUCH A HEART…FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $27,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMIS…HAWAII ISLAND ADULT CARE INC: $22,250 · Human ServicesHAWAII ISLAND…FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $20,200 · Human ServicesRESPONSIVE CAREGIVERS OF HAWAII: $19,711 · Human ServicesHO'OLA NA PUA: $19,217 · Human ServicesHALE OPIO KAUAI INC: $17,519 · Human ServicesHOSPICE HAWAII INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesKEIKI TO KUPUNA FOUNDATION: $15,045 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS HAWAII: $14,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER HAWAII: $13,144 · Human Services+15 more: $110,159 · Human Services+15 moreCROSSROADS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: $32,500 · OtherPURPLE MAIA FOUNDATION: $29,882 · OtherREAD TO ME INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $38,991 · OtherIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $38,391 · OtherSUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI: $58,163 · OtherSUSTAINABLE MOLOKAIHUNAKAI PARK ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · OtherFAMILY MINISTRIES CENTER: $28,356 · Other+43 more: $526,572 · Other+43 moreWORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · Recreation & SportsWORLD GOL…POLYNESIAN FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsPOLYNESIA…+3 more: $15,150 · Recreation & Sports+3 moreH U G S FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES: $41,846 · HealthHAWAII CORD BLOOD BANK: $24,664 · HealthSUTTER HEALTH PACIFIC: $20,302 · HealthKapi'olani Health Foundation: $18,500 · HealthPROJECT VISION HAWAII: $15,350 · HealthLANAI COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $15,258 · HealthKEIKI EDUCATION LIVING INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE: $14,967 · HealthHAWAII MOTHER'S MILK INC: $12,327 · HealthHAWAII ORGAN PROCUREMENT ORGANIZATION: $10,408 · HealthWAIKIKI HEALTH: $10,000 · HealthRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation: $8,935 · Health+11 more: $64,235 · HealthHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $85,676 · Food & NutritionALOHA HARVEST: $51,454 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD BASKET INC: $28,220 · Food & NutritionHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $22,726 · Food & NutritionKAUAI FOOD BANK INC: $22,515 · Food & NutritionCOMMON GRACE: $69,283 · EducationHAWAII RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $21,532 · EducationTHE HAWAII JAPANESE SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $6,092 · EducationHAWAII CHILDREN'S ACTION NETWORK: $5,000 · EducationHALOALAUNUIAKEA EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $5,000 · Education
Philanthropy$1,252,547Human Services$393,522Other$782,855Recreation & Sports$265,150Health$256,792Food & Nutrition$210,591Education$126,907

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 budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,220,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $85,676 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON GRACE: $69,283 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetWAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $65,935 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI: $58,163 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetALOHA HARVEST: $51,454 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetH U G S FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES: $41,846 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetREAD TO ME INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $38,991 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $38,391 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTOUCH A HEART INC: $33,342 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetHUNAKAI PARK ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetPURPLE MAIA FOUNDATION: $29,882 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILY MINISTRIES CENTER: $28,356 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTHE FOOD BASKET INC: $28,220 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $27,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHAWAII HOMEOWNERSHIP CENTER: $25,914 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMOLOKAI ARTS CENTER INC: $25,321 over 2y, 13% of budgetHawaii Lions Foundation: $25,089 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetHAWAII CORD BLOOD BANK: $24,664 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHui O Mana Ka Pu-uwai Outrigger Canoe Club: $23,225 over 2y, 16% of budgetHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $22,726 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKAUAI FOOD BANK INC: $22,515 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHAWAII ISLAND ADULT CARE INC: $22,250 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII: $21,758 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $21,532 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetPU'A FOUNDATION: $21,173 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetSUTTER HEALTH PACIFIC: $20,302 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $20,200 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE HAWAII JAPANESE SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetRESPONSIVE CAREGIVERS OF HAWAII: $19,711 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLUNALILO HOME: $19,550 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA: $19,217 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKapi'olani Health Foundation: $18,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSURFING THE NATIONS: $18,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHALE OPIO KAUAI INC: $17,519 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHOA AINA O MAKAHA: $17,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetHAWAII FI-DO SERVICE DOGS: $17,121 over 1y, 16% of budgetHOPE SERVICES HAWAII INC: $17,114 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $16,955 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII VA FOUNDATION: $16,326 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetHOSPICE HAWAII INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF HAWAII: $15,559 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetPROJECT VISION HAWAII: $15,350 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLANAI COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $15,258 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKEIKI TO KUPUNA FOUNDATION: $15,045 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHAWAII LITERACY INC: $14,971 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHELPING HANDS HAWAII: $14,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Atherton Family Found…Aloha United Way IncJ Watumull FundBank of Hawaii Charit…The Harry and Jeanett…Central Pacific Bank …First Insurance Compa…Cooke Foundation Limi…Hawaii Hotel Industry…McInerny Foundation--Tradewind Group Found…Hawaii Foodbank Inc
Atherton Family FoundationHI111.4× affinity55 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
37report 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.

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 119 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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