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Hau'Oli Mau Loa Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $2.5M
  • $250k+9 grants · $4.2M
$185,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$156M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$1,440,357
PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION$449,873
SAVE THE CHILDREN$414,249
HALE KIPA INC$402,400
KUPU$380,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$350,000
HAWAIIAN COMMUNITY ASSETS INC$300,000
HUI MALAMA I KE ALA ULILI$261,785
KAULUAKALANA$250,000
HAWAII LAND TRUST$225,000
HHOC MORTGAGE$220,000
HAWAII CONSERVATION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION$215,000
LAIOPUA$200,000
GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND$185,000
HUI HOOLEIMALUO$175,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $4.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HALE KIPA INC: $425k → 9%HALE KIPA INC: $424k → 9%HALE KIPA INC: $420k → 9%HALE KIPA INC: $420k → 9%HALE KIPA INC: $417k → 9%HALE KIPA: $408k → 9%HALE KIPA INC: $402k → 9%HALE KIPA INC: $402k → 9%PAEPAE O HE'EIA: $151k → 9%PAEPAE O HE'EIA: $151k → 9%PAEPAE O HE'EIA: $139k → 9%PAEPAE O HE'EIA: $137k → 9%PAEPAE O HE'EIA: $100k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$45M · 44 repeat orgs$320k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against -60% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
4

Total granted

$45M
$270k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
-60%

Still filing today

84%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementEnvironmentHousing & ShelterEducationArts & CultureInternationalOther
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
    8× · 2017–2024 · $9.1M · revenue +56%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +21%
  • K
    KUPU
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +163%

Funded once

  • TR
    TRI-ISLE RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $110k · revenue -60%
  • TM
    THREE MOUNTAIN ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2022 · $85k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I -ORS
    2× · 2021–2024 · $50k
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
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
2
Na Mamo o Kawa

to rehabilitate, curate, and steward the natural and cultural resources of Kawa to honor the past, benefit the present, and preserve for the future generations of Ka'u, the Island of Hawaii and all humankind.

Environment
3
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
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4
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
5
Huliauapaa

Growing hawaii's communities through culturally based forms of innovative learning, leadership development, and collaborative networking in wahi kupuna stewardship.

Environment
6
The Kohala Center

The kohala center is an independent community-based center for research, conservation, and education.

Environment
7
Ke Ao Halii

The mission is to protect and preserve the natural and cultural resources of the hana moku and the customary and traditional practices of native hawaiians of the region; to preserve and manage the area's natural, cultural, scenic, historic…

Environment
8
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
9
Ea Ecoversity

Ea ecoversity's mission is to provide culturally-driven learning, training, credentialing, and other long-term societal benefits to ka lahui hawai'i.

Education
10
Hiikua a Hiialo Cultural Foundation
Arts & Culture
11
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
12
Malama Kua Aina
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Conservation Alliance Foundation; the most unlike its peers is California Coalition for Rural Housing Project. 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

41 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. 41 of the 52 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.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
28/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $9,071,636 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FO…MALA'AI: $410,000 · Education+2 more: $355,000 · EducationSave The Children Federation Inc: $4,100,003 · InternationalSave The Children…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,700,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRO…PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $452,873 · InternationalPACIFIC AMERICAN …HAWAII CONSERVATION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $2,120,111 · EnvironmentHAWAII CONSERVAT…HAWAII NATURE CENTER INC: $1,725,000 · EnvironmentHAWAII NATURE CE…GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $1,415,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL GREENGRAN…PAPAHANA KUAOLA: $919,585 · EnvironmentPAPAHANA KUAOLATHREE MOUNTAIN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $526,046 · EnvironmentTHREE MOUNTAIN A…HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $453,000 · EnvironmentHAWAIIAN ISLANDS…HAWAII ISLAND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $2,093,545 · Housing & ShelterHAWAII ISL…HAWAII COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT CORPORATION: $1,210,000 · Housing & ShelterHAWAII COM…HAWAIIAN COMMUNITY ASSETS INC: $600,000 · Housing & ShelterHAWAIIAN C…HHOC MORTGAGE: $440,000 · Housing & ShelterHHOC MORTG…California Coalition for Rural Housing Project: $224,348 · Housing & ShelterHALE KIPA INC: $3,318,421 · Human ServicesHALE KIPA …PAEPAE O HE'EIA: $677,791 · Human ServicesPAEPAE O H…LAIOPUALL INC: $378,000 · Human ServicesLAIOPUALL …THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $937,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYHANO: $899,543 · OtherHANORISE-KEAUKAHA ONE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: $415,000 · OtherKAKOO OIWI: $744,568 · OtherKAKOO OIWIHUI MALAMA I KE ALA ULILI: $489,785 · OtherKAULUAKALANA: $478,000 · OtherALOHA HARVEST: $1,790,000 · OtherALOHA HARVESTHOOKUAAINA: $593,750 · OtherWAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $974,610 · OtherWAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOP…KANEHUNAMOKU VOYAGING ACADEMY: $825,246 · OtherKANEHUNAMOKU VOYAGING ACADEM…+20 more: $3,923,717 · Other+20 moreKUPU: $3,065,711 · Youth Development
Education$9,836,636International$7,252,876Environment$7,158,742Housing & Shelter$4,567,893Human Services$4,374,212Other$12,071,219Youth Development$3,065,711

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $1,415,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT CORPORATION: $1,210,000 over 5y, 69% of budgetWAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $974,610 over 5y, 90% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $937,000 over 8y, 0.0% 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 budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $377,166 over 8y, 0.1% 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
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 Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds HALE KIPA INC ↗
  • Who funds KUPU ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII CONSERVATION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII ISLAND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ALOHA HARVEST ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII NATURE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds WAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds PAPAHANA KUAOLA ↗
  • Who funds KANEHUNAMOKU VOYAGING ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds KAKOO OIWI ↗
  • Who funds PAEPAE O HE'EIA ↗
  • Who funds HAWAIIAN COMMUNITY ASSETS INC ↗
  • Who funds HOOKUAAINA ↗
  • Who funds THREE MOUNTAIN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HUI MALAMA I KE ALA ULILI ↗
  • Who funds KAULUAKALANA ↗
  • Who funds HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HHOC MORTGAGE ↗
  • Who funds MALA'AI ↗
  • Who funds LAIOPUALL INC ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KAHUA PAA MUA INC ↗
  • Who funds MALAMA HULEIA ↗
  • Who funds HUI HOOLEIMALUO ↗
  • Who funds Hui O Waa Kaulua ↗
  • Who funds Maui Huliau Foundation ↗
  • Who funds KA IPU MAKANI CULTURAL HERITAGE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE ↗
  • Who funds California Coalition for Rural Housing Project ↗

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 Estat…Atherton Family Found…The Harry and Jeanett…Cooke Foundation Limi…Harold Kl Castle Foun…Bank of Hawaii Charit…Aloha United Way IncKosasa FoundationCouncil for Native Ha…Central Pacific Bank …Stupski FoundationKualoa Ranch Foundati…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hau'Oli Mau Loa Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hau'Oli Mau Loa Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report 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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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.

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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