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Hawaii Conservation Alliance Foundation

Founded in 2006, the hawai'I conservation alliance foundation ("hcaf") is a 501(c)(3) non-profit with the purpose and mission to support and advance the capacity building, native ecosystem and biocultural conservation work of the hawai'I conservation alliance ("hca") through fundraising, advocacy, and strategic outreach and…

$201k
Granted FY2023
7
Itemized grants FY2023
7
Organizations funded FY2023
43%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$193k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$31,300
Largest grant, FY2023
$32,600
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$2.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Hawaii Conservation Alliance Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20237$193k43%
FY20224$90kn/a
82% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$127kEnvironment$31kFood & Nutrition$31kCommunity Improvement$31kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($63k), not named here.

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.

Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha SchoolsHI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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Find your warmest path to Hawaii Conservation Alliance 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 Hawaii Conservation Alliance Foundation

How much does Hawaii Conservation Alliance Foundation give?
Hawaii Conservation Alliance Foundation reported 7 itemized grants totaling $193,000, out of $200,998 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Hawaii Conservation Alliance Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (45%), Environment (11%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
Who are Hawaii Conservation Alliance Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2023: Kohe Malamalama O Kanaloa Protect Kaho'Olawe Fund ($63k), Ka Ipu Makani Cultural Heritage Center ($33k), Paepae O He'Eia ($31k).
Does Hawaii Conservation Alliance Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hawaii Conservation Alliance Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools.
Where is Hawaii Conservation Alliance Foundation based?
Hawaii Conservation Alliance 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 7 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $6k 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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