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Hawaii Construction Industry Improvement Program Fund

To operate and manage an improvement fund for the construction industry in the state of hawaii.

$400k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$226k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of HAWAII CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM FUND’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $112k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $282k
$33,950
Median grant
1
States reached
$10k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GENERAL CONTRACTORS ASSOC OF HAWAII$225,917
BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOC OF HAWAII$56,367
HAWAII ISLAND CONTRACTORS ASSOC$36,033
CONTRACTORS ASSOC OF KAUAI$33,950
CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY OF MAUI$29,788
HAWAII WALL & CEILING IND ASSOC$11,976
MASONRY CONSTRUCTION IND IMP PROG$6,466
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CONTRACTORS ASSOC OF KAUAI: $34k → 9%BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOC OF HAWAII: $56k → 9%HAWAII ISLAND CONTRACTORS ASSOC: $36k → 15%CONTRACTORS ASSOC OF KAUAI: $17k → 9%BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOC OF HAWAII: $47k → 9%HAWAII ISLAND CONTRACTORS ASSOC: $19k → 15%CONTRACTORS ASSOC OF KAUAI: $16k → 9%BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOC OF HAWAII: $39k → 9%HAWAII ISLAND CONTRACTORS ASSOC: $18k → 15%CONTRACTORS ASSOC OF KAUAI: $15k → 9%BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOC OF HAWAII: $37k → 9%HAWAII ISLAND CONTRACTORS ASSOC: $18k → 15%CONTRACTORS ASSOC OF KAUAI: $14k → 9%BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOC OF HAWAII: $34k → 9%HAWAII ISLAND CONTRACTORS ASSOC: $18k → 15%GENERAL CONTRACTORS ASSOC OF HAWAII: $226k → 9%GENERAL CONTRACTORS ASSOC OF HAWAII: $131k → 9%GENERAL CONTRACTORS ASSOC OF HAWAII: $130k → 9%GENERAL CONTRACTORS ASSOC OF HAWAII: $125k → 9%GENERAL CONTRACTORS ASSOC OF HAWAII: $117k → 9%HAWAII WALL & CEILING IND ASSOC: $12k → 9%HAWAII WALL & CEILING IND ASSOC: $8k → 9%HAWAII WALL & CEILING IND ASSOC: $7k → 9%HAWAII WALL & CEILING IND ASSOC: $7k → 9%HAWAII WALL & CEILING IND ASSOC: $6k → 9%MASONRY CONSTRUCTION IND IMP PROG: $6k → 9%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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 6 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
1

Total granted

$1.3M
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+65%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • GC
    GENERAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF HAWAII
    5× · 2020–2024 · $728k · revenue +81%
  • BI
    BUILDING INDUSTRY LABOR ASSOCIATION OF HAWAII
    5× · 2020–2024 · $214k · revenue +11% · 47% of their budget
  • HI
    HAWAII ISLAND CONTRACTORS' ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $110k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • MC
    MASONRY CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +65%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field
04the grantee network

7 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GENERAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF HAWAII — $728,149 · OtherGENERAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF HAWAIIBUILDING INDUSTRY LABOR ASSOCIATION OF HAWAII — $213,922 · OtherBUILDING INDUSTRY LABOR ASSOCIATION OF HAWAIIMAUI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $91,495 · OtherMAUI CHAMBER OF COMMERCEHAWAII WALL & CEILING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION — $39,623 · Other+1 more — $6,466 · OtherHAWAII ISLAND CONTRACTORS' ASSOCIATION — $109,767 · Community ImprovementHAWAII ISLAND CONT…CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF KAUAI — $95,949 · Community ImprovementCONTRACTORS ASSOCI…
Other$1,079,655Community Improvement$205,716

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 budgetGENERAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF HAWAII — $728,149 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetBUILDING INDUSTRY LABOR ASSOCIATION OF HAWAII — $213,922 over 5y, 47% of budgetHAWAII ISLAND CONTRACTORS' ASSOCIATION — $109,767 over 5y, 19% of budgetCONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF KAUAI — $95,949 over 5y, 12% of budgetMAUI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $91,495 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetHAWAII WALL & CEILING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION — $39,623 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetMASONRY CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM — $6,466 over 1y, 14% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Hawaii Construction Industry Improvement Program Fund 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.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Hawaii Construction Industry Improvement Program Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Hawaii Construction Industry Improvement Program Fund 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 7 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.

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