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Hawaii Dental Service at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $1,872,203, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,988,639 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $116,436 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.

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
CENTER FOR TOMORROW'S LEADERS - HAWAII$50,000
SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER$50,000
RESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT$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
HAWAII HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION$10,000
FAMILY HUI HAWAII$10,000
RISEHI FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $50k → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $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
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 72% of Hawaii Dental Service’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in HI; by stated purpose, 25%.

Hawaii Dental Servicelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 10% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

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%
+22%

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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners in Development Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

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

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
47/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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: $50,000 · Human ServicesLANAKILA PACIFIC FOUNDATION: $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 · HealthFIVE MOUNTAINS HAWAII INC: $50,000 · HealthMAKE LEMONADE PROJECT: $50,000 · HealthHAWAII ORGAN PROCUREMENT ORGANIZATION: $50,000 · HealthKapi'olani Health Foundation: $25,250 · HealthMAUNALANI FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthMOLOKAI GENERAL HOSPITAL: $25,000 · HealthFIGHTSTORY INC A K A FIGHTSTORY: $25,000 · HealthI OLA LAHUI INC: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetRESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFIVE MOUNTAINS HAWAII INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCENTER FOR TOMORROW'S LEADERS: $50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetLANAKILA PACIFIC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAUNALUA FISHPOND HERITAGE CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetLANAKILA PACIFIC FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetMAKE LEMONADE PROJECT: $50,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetOAHU ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD: $50,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetFEED THE HUNGER FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetASSETS SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII: $50,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetHAWAII ORGAN PROCUREMENT ORGANIZATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHAWAII VA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetTHE FOOD BASKET INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKapi'olani Health Foundation: $25,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLALAKEA FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 68% of budgetMAUNALANI FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOLOKAI GENERAL HOSPITAL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budget'OLELO COMMUNITY TELEVISION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMANA MAOLI: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetI OLA LAHUI INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetOHANA PACIFIC FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetMA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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 tightly interlocked group: 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

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 Dental Service funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hawaii Dental Service. Bigger dots raise more.

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

    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 71 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.

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