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Hawaii Alliance for Community-Based Economic Development

To encourage increased investment in sustainable and community-based approaches to economic development hacbed advances its mission to address, social, economic, and environmental justice in hawaii through community based economic development and seek to help strengthen the voice and actions of hawaii families and communities so that…

$71k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $65,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $71,450 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,450 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.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOOULU LAHUI$5,000
HAWAII'S VOLCANO CIRCUS$5,000
MALAMA O PUNA$5,000
EQUALITY HAWAII$5,000
O MAKUU KE KAHUA COMMUNITY CENTER$5,000
POHAKU PELEMAKA$5,000
GRASSROOTS CHURCH$5,000
GIRLS TO WOMEN MENTORING HAWAII$5,000
MEN OF PAA$5,000
NA MAKA HALOA O WAIPIO$5,000
HAWAIIAN VOLCANO EDUCATION AND RESILIENCE INSTITUTE$5,000
HAWAII ANIMAL KULEANA ALLIANCE$5,000
ARTS & SCIENCES CENTER$5,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

area typical 7%POHAKU PELEMAKA: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

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The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
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E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
3
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
4
Na Hoa Aloha O Ka Pu Uhonua O Honaunau

For the benefit and inspiration of ALL, Na Hoa Aloha o ka Pu'uhonua o Honaunau participates with NPS and other partners to protect and preserve cultural and natural resources, guided by the aacestral knowledge of South Kona.

5
Hui Aloha Aina Momona

Preservation and growth of Hawaiian Culture and lifestyle practices through education centered around indigenous starches and farming practices. Promoting Aina Momona through various community, lifestyle and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
6
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
7
Hiikua a Hiialo Cultural Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
Lanikuhonua Cultural Institute
9
Na Mea Kupono Learning Center

We provide educational place based learning opportunities for school groups, organizations, and the community. We utilize a six acre wetland taro patch in rural Waialua, Hawaii where we grow taro and educate our participants of how to…

Arts & Culture
10
Na Kiai Paa

Our organization aims to restore the native forests through volunteer efforts, while fostering a sense of community and creating safe educational spaces. Our goal is to enhance the quality of life for Native Hawaiians by promoting…

Human Services
11
Hui O Hauula

Hui o Hau`ula is a 501c3 non-profit in the Ahupua'a of Hau`ula in the Ko`olauloa District on Oahu. We manage the Hau`ula Community Center at 54-010 Kukuna Road in Hau`ula, Hawaii 96717. Hui o Hau`ula created a Partnership Hub that includes…

Community Improvement
12
Hoa Aina O Makaha

Hoa aina o makaha (land of makaha shared in friendship) is more than a destination farm or nonprofit organization. the embrace of a sanctuary is felt by whoever enters the gates and a sense of belonging usually follows. once a barren piece…

Unclassified

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Na Maka Haloa O Waipio and the most unlike its peers is Equality Hi. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
1/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Grassroots Church — $5,000 · OtherGrassroots ChurchGIRLS TO WOMEN MENTORING HAWAII — $5,000 · OtherGIRLS TO WOMEN MENTORING HAWAIIHawaiis Volcano Circus — $5,000 · OtherHawaiis Volcano CircusO MAKUU KE KAHUA COMMUNITY CENTER — $5,000 · OtherO MAKUU KE KAHUA COMMUNITY CENTERHAWAIIAN VOLCANO EDUCATION AND RESILIENCE INSTITUTE — $5,000 · EducationHAWAIIAN VOLCANO …ARTS & SCIENCES CENTER INC — $5,000 · EducationARTS & SCIENCES C…EQUALITY HI — $5,000 · Human ServicesEQUALITY HIPOHAKU PELEMAKA — $5,000 · Human ServicesPOHAKU PELEMAKAHO'OULU LAHUI — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentNA MAKA HALOA O WAIPIO — $5,000 · Arts & CultureMALAMA O PUNA — $5,000 · EnvironmentHAWAII ANIMAL KULEANA ALLIANCE INC — $5,000 · AnimalsMEN OF PA A — $5,000 · Health
Other$20,000Education$10,000Human Services$10,000Youth Development$5,000Arts & Culture$5,000Environment$5,000Animals$5,000Health$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHO'OULU LAHUI — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHawaiis Volcano Circus — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHAWAIIAN VOLCANO EDUCATION AND RESILIENCE INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEQUALITY HI — $5,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetARTS & SCIENCES CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNA MAKA HALOA O WAIPIO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMALAMA O PUNA — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHAWAII ANIMAL KULEANA ALLIANCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMEN OF PA A — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPOHAKU PELEMAKA — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Hawaii Alliance for Community-Based Economic Development 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.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report 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, FY2025

    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.

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    How do I get to Hawaii Alliance for Community-Based Economic Development?

    Find your warmest path to Hawaii Alliance for Community-Based Economic Development 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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