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Hawaii Dental Service

Promote betterment of medical & dental health of the public for the general welfare of the community

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$15MEducation$3.5MFood & Nutrition$826kPublic Safety & Disaster$820kScience & Tech$740kHuman Services$706kYouth Development$153kPhilanthropy$145kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 21 grants below total $1,872,203 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,988,639 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $116,436 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $187k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
$15,050
Median grant
3
States reached
$448M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAWAII DENTAL SERVICE FOUNDATION$1,500,000
RESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT$50,000
CENTER FOR TOMORROW'S LEADERS - HAWAII$50,000
SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER$50,000
ALOHA UNITED WAY$37,800
HONOLULU COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM$25,000
HAWAII DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION$20,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF HAWAII$16,200
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$15,253
HELPING HANDS HAWAII$15,100
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$15,050
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$12,900
FAMILY HUI HAWAII$10,000
RISEHI FOUNDATION$10,000
HAWAII HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION$10,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $640k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS - HAWAII CHAPTER: $180k → 14%LANAKILA MEALS ON WHEELS: $50k → 9%LANAKILA PACIFIC FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%LANAKILA PACIFIC FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 9%SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 9%SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $15k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 9%OHANA PACIFIC FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $50k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $50k → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $25k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $25k → 9%FAMILY HUI HAWAII: $10k → 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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 72% of Hawaii Dental Service’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in HI; read by stated purpose it is 25% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Hawaii Dental Servicelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 10% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$21M · 26 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
34

Total granted

$21M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+30%

Still filing today

92%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

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

  • HD
    HAWAII DENTAL SERVICE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $14M · revenue +23% · 75% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +64%
  • HA
    HAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $740k · revenue +65% · 72% of their budget

Funded once

  • HC
    HAWAII CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +18%
  • MU
    MAUI UNITED WAYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +188%
  • 'S
    'IOLANI SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +15%

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

04Your 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.

1
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
2
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
3
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

To improve the health and well-being of our community.

Human Services
4
Kapi'olani Medical Specialists

Kapi'olani medical specialists (dba hawai'i pacific health medical group) is a multispecialty provider group dedicated to providing world-class care for adults and children across hawai'i and the pacific region working in partnership with…

Health
5
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
6
Papahana Kuaola

Papahana kuaola's mission is to create quality educational programs focused on environmental restoration and economic sustainability fully integrated with hawaiian knowledge in order to exemplify a lifestyle respectful of kanaka, `aina,…

Environment
7
Hui Malama I Ke Ala Ulili

To re-establish the systems that sustain our community through educational initiatives and land-based practices that cultivate abundance, regenerate responsibilities, and promote collective health and well being.

Community Improvement
8
Hui Pohala

Palliative care is a win-win-win-win. expanding access to palliative care benefits all parts of the healthcare system. people living with serious illness are better able to manage physical and emotional symptoms and have peace of mind that…

Health
9
Hawaii Education Institute
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10
Pali Momi Foundation

The mission of pali momi foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.

Health
11
Kuakini Foundation

The mission of kuakini foundation is to improve the health status of the community by: providing comprehensive health care services and programs at reasonable cost; continuously improving the quality of health care services and programs;…

—
12
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners in Development Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lunalilo Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr14%6%5–10yr18%15%10–20yr18%25%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr14%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%3%10–20yr18%8%20–35yr13%68%35–55yr14%21%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/71
the rest of the field
13%
695/5,370

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 71 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
48/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HAWAII DENTAL SERVICE FOUNDATION — $14,261,487 · OtherHAWAII DENTAL SERVICE FOUNDATION+32 more — $1,265,156 · Other+32 moreUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $3,275,663 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWA…HAWAII DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC — $130,000 · Education+5 more — $229,500 · Education+5 moreHAWAII FOODBANK INC — $525,980 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD BANK INC — $200,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD BASKET INC — $50,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE — $740,000 · Science & TechAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $190,000 · Human ServicesSUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER — $150,200 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OAHU — $75,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU — $75,000 · Human ServicesLANAKILA PACIFIC FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Human ServicesLANAKILA PACIFIC — $50,000 · Human ServicesOHANA PACIFIC FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Human Services+2 more — $25,100 · Human ServicesKIDS HURT TOO HAWAII — $150,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $77,690 · HealthPARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER — $65,000 · HealthMAKE LEMONADE PROJECT — $50,000 · HealthFIVE MOUNTAINS HAWAII INC — $50,000 · HealthHAWAII ORGAN PROCUREMENT ORGANIZATION — $50,000 · HealthKapi'olani Health Foundation — $25,250 · HealthMAUNALANI FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthI OLA LAHUI INC — $25,000 · HealthFIGHTSTORY INC A K A FIGHTSTORY — $25,000 · HealthMOLOKAI GENERAL HOSPITAL — $25,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $21,050 · Health+2 more — $24,700 · HealthHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $170,250 · PhilanthropyMAUI UNITED WAY — $150,000 · PhilanthropyALOHA UNITED WAY INC — $94,725 · PhilanthropyHAWAII VA FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Philanthropy
Other$15,526,643Education$3,635,163Food & Nutrition$775,980Science & Tech$740,000Human Services$640,300Health$613,690Philanthropy$464,975

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHAWAII DENTAL SERVICE FOUNDATION — $14,261,487 over 6y, 75% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $3,275,663 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetHAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE — $740,000 over 2y, 72% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC — $525,980 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC — $200,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $190,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $170,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER — $150,200 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetHAWAII CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY — $150,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetKIDS HURT TOO HAWAII — $150,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetHAWAII DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC — $130,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF HAWAII — $100,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budget'IOLANI SCHOOL — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALOHA UNITED WAY INC — $94,725 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $77,690 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OAHU — $75,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU — $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER — $66,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER — $65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII — $56,050 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII — $50,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCENTER FOR TOMORROW'S LEADERS — $50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMAKE LEMONADE PROJECT — $50,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetOAHU ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD — $50,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetMAUNALUA FISHPOND HERITAGE CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetFEED THE HUNGER FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLANAKILA PACIFIC FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetTHE FOOD BASKET INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFIVE MOUNTAINS HAWAII INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHAWAII VA FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetLANAKILA PACIFIC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetASSETS SCHOOL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHAWAII ORGAN PROCUREMENT ORGANIZATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKapi'olani Health Foundation — $25,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMANA MAOLI — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMAUNALANI FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget'OLELO COMMUNITY TELEVISION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHONOLULU COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKUMANO I KE ALA O MAKAWELI — $25,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetI OLA LAHUI INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLALAKEA FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 68% of budgetMOLOKAI GENERAL HOSPITAL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOHANA PACIFIC FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 6.1% 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Bank of Hawaii Charit…Aloha United Way IncTradewind Group Found…J Watumull FundAtherton Family Found…The Queen's Medical C…Central Pacific Bank …The Harry and Jeanett…McInerny Foundation--First Insurance Compa…Trustees of the Estat…Stupski Foundation
Bank of Hawaii Charitable FdnHI54.5× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Aloha United Way Inc · Tradewind Group Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Atherton Family Foundation · The Queen's Medical Center · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · McInerny Foundation-- · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Stupski Foundation

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 Dental Service 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    14report 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

    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.

    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 71 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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