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Hau'Oli Mau Loa Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
28
Grants FY2024
27
Organizations funded FY2023
37%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$185,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,440,357
Organizations funded a year
17 to 27
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$156M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 37% of the organizations Hau'Oli Mau Loa Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Housing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving25$6.5M4%
FY202327$6.5M37%
FY202217$4.7M29%
FY202126$5.3M12%
FY202026$5.0M4%
FY201925$6.1M4%
FY201827$7.5M15%
FY201724$4.9Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$9.9MEducation$9.7MInternational$7.6MEmployment$4.9MHousing & Shelter$4.0MYouth Development$3.8MCommunity Improvement$3.3MFood & Nutrition$2.9MOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 38 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Hau'Oli Mau Loa Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Hawaii Foundation: $9,071,636 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $4,100,003 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHale Kipa Inc: $3,318,421 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetKupu: $3,065,711 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $2,700,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHawaii Conservation Alliance Foundation: $2,120,111 over 8y, 49% of budgetHawaii Island Community Development Corporation: $2,093,545 over 4y, 92% of budgetAloha Harvest: $1,790,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetHawaii Nature Center Inc: $1,725,000 over 8y, 33% of budgetHawaii Community Reinvestment Corporation: $1,210,000 over 5y, 69% of budgetWaianae Community Re-Development Corporation: $974,610 over 5y, 90% of budgetPapahana Kuaola: $919,585 over 5y, 17% of budgetKanehunamoku Voyaging Academy: $825,246 over 5y, 32% of budgetKakoo Oiwi: $744,568 over 5y, 23% of budgetPaepae O He'Eia: $677,791 over 5y, 19% of budgetHawaiian Community Assets Inc: $600,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetHookuaaina: $593,750 over 5y, 28% of budgetThree Mountain Alliance Foundation: $526,046 over 7y, 12% of budgetHui Malama I Ke Ala Ulili: $489,785 over 2y, 12% of budgetKauluakalana: $478,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetHawaiian Islands Land Trust: $453,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetPacific American Foundation: $452,873 over 4y, 11% of budgetHhoc Mortgage: $440,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetMala'Ai: $410,000 over 5y, 41% of budgetKahua Paa Mua Inc: $366,250 over 5y, 20% of budgetMalama Huleia: $352,940 over 2y, 33% of budgetHui Hooleimaluo: $352,885 over 2y, 23% of budgetHui O Waa Kaulua: $303,000 over 2y, 67% of budgetMaui Huliau Foundation: $290,000 over 4y, 47% of budgetKa Ipu Makani Cultural Heritage Center: $253,000 over 2y, 61% of budgetFriends of the Future: $227,651 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCalifornia Coalition for Rural Housing Project: $224,348 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetTri-Isle Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc: $110,446 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetOahu Economic Development Board: $100,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetHawaii Local2030 Hub: $75,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetHana Retreat: $65,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 36.

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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.

Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha SchoolsHI46.7× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Atherton Family Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Cooke Foundation Limited · Harold Kl Castle Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Aloha United Way Inc · Kosasa Foundation · Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Stupski Foundation · Kualoa Ranch 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.

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How do I get to Hau'Oli Mau Loa Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hau'Oli Mau Loa 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.

About Hau'Oli Mau Loa Foundation

How much does Hau'Oli Mau Loa Foundation give?
Hau'Oli Mau Loa Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $6,835,821 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Hau'Oli Mau Loa Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (20%), Education (20%), International (15%).
Who are Hau'Oli Mau Loa Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Hawaii Foundation ($9.1M), Save The Children Federation Inc ($4.1M), Hale Kipa Inc ($3.3M).
Does Hau'Oli Mau Loa Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hau'Oli Mau Loa Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hau'Oli Mau Loa Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools, Atherton Family Foundation, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc.
Where is Hau'Oli Mau Loa Foundation based?
Hau'Oli Mau Loa Foundation is based in HI.

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 52 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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