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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $65,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $71,450 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,450 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.
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MALAMA O PUNA$5,000
NA MAKA HALOA O WAIPIO$5,000
HAWAIIAN VOLCANO EDUCATION AND RESILIENCE INSTITUTE$5,000
O MAKUU KE KAHUA COMMUNITY CENTER$5,000
POHAKU PELEMAKA$5,000
HAWAII ANIMAL KULEANA ALLIANCE$5,000
ARTS & SCIENCES CENTER$5,000
HAWAII'S VOLCANO CIRCUS$5,000
GIRLS TO WOMEN MENTORING HAWAII$5,000
HOOULU LAHUI$5,000
MEN OF PAA$5,000
EQUALITY HAWAII$5,000
GRASSROOTS CHURCH$5,000
02The need
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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 (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 its 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
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 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
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
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2
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.

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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
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Na Maka Haloa O Waipio; 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 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. 11 of the 13 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Hawaii Alliance for Community-Based Economic Development funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hawaii Alliance for Community-Based Economic Development. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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, 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.
    04Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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