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Hawaii Dental Service Foundation

To promote and encourage the betterment of the general health and welfare of the people of the community and advance research, education, study and learning in the health areas such as dentistry, oral hygiene and related service.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$800k
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$9.0MEducation$4.7MFood & Nutrition$210kRecreation & Sports$100kPublic Safety & Disaster$22k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $809k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$150,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$68M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$800,000
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION - AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER (AHEC) LOAN$250,000
HUI NO KE OLA PONO INC$190,000
KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES$165,161
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION - KAPIOLANI COMMUNITY COLLEGE$154,272
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION - MAUI COUNTY$150,000
KAHUKU MEDICAL CENTER$78,763
HAMAKUA HEALTH CENTER INC$71,284
LANAI COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$45,847
THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER$26,555
KALIHI PALAMA HEALTH CENTER$22,515
DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK HAWAII$20,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 21% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC: $319k → 12%NA LEI WILI AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC: $113k → 9%KAHUKU MEDICAL CENTER: $98k → 9%HAMAKUA HEALTH CENTER INC: $200k → 15%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC: $268k → 14%KAHUKU MEDICAL CENTER: $83k → 9%HAMAKUA HEALTH CENTER INC: $139k → 15%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC: $165k → 14%KAHUKU MEDICAL CENTER: $79k → 9%HUI NO KE OLA PONO: $223k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $800k → 9%HUI NO KE OLA PONO INC: $190k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION - AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER (AHEC) LOAN: $250k → 9%FRIENDS OF DENTAL HYGIENE: $121k → 15%COMMUNITY CLINIC OF MAUI INC: $127k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION - KAPIOLANI COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $154k → 9%BAY CLINIC INC: $115k → 15%HUI NO KE OLA PONO: $125k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION - MAUI COUNTY: $150k → 9%COMMUNITY CLINIC OF MAUI INC: $98k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $75k → 9%WEST HAWAII COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $334k → 15%COMMUNITY CLINIC OF MAUI INC: $92k → 9%ALOHA MEDICAL MISSION: $420k → 9%WEST HAWAII COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $200k → 15%MOLOKAI OHANA HEALTH CARE INC: $150k → 9%ALOHA MEDICAL MISSION: $265k → 9%WEST HAWAII COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $190k → 15%KALIHI-PALAMA HEALTH CENTER: $250k → 9%WEST HAWAII COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC (AKA HAWAII ISLAND COMMUNITY HEALTH: $110k → 15%ALOHA MEDICAL MISSION: $210k → 9%ALOHA MEDICAL MISSION: $200k → 9%ALOHA MEDICAL MISSION: $150k → 9%ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE: $150k → 9%KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES: $165k → 9%KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $150k → 9%KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY: $140k → 9%KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $110k → 9%SPECIAL OLYMPICS HAWAII: $100k → 9%WAIMANALO HEALTH CENTER: $500k → 9%WAIANAE DISTRICT COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH AND HOSPITAL BOARD INC: $436k → 9%WAHIAWA CENTER FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH: $250k → 9%HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 9%HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $490k → 9%HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $490k → 9%HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $470k → 9%QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $250k → 9%QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $80k → 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 11% of Hawaii Dental Service Foundation’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, 93% of the giving stays in HI; read by stated purpose it is 81% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Hawaii Dental Service Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.9M · 19 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
18

Total granted

$9.9M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+62%

Still filing today

95%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
HealthEducationInternationalArts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +165%
  • AM
    ALOHA MEDICAL MISSION
    5× · 2018–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +51% · 48% of their budget
  • WH
    WEST HAWAII COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $894k · revenue +203%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of the Pacificgraduated
    2× · 2017–2019 · $307k · revenue +39%
  • TW
    THE WAHIAWA CENTER FOR COMMUNITY HEALTHgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +205%
  • SF
    ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM OF HAWAIIgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +183%

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
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
2
Kaua'i Medical Clinic

Kaua'i medical clinic, an affliate of hawai'i pacific health, is a multi-specialty clinic dedicated to providing world-class care for adults and children across hawai'i and the pacific region in partnership with kapi'olani medical center…

Health
3
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
4
Kapi'olani Health Foundation

The mission of kapi'olani health foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.

Health
5
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
6
Pali Momi Foundation

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

Health
7
Healthcare Association of Hawaii

The mission of the healthcare association of hawaii is to be hawaii's most effective advocate for the comprehensive and financially strong healthcare system that successfully responds to the diverse and changing needs of all we serve.

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8
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

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

Human Services
9
Hawaii Medical Association

Hawaii medical association is dedicated to serving physicians, their patients and community through representation, advocacy, and public service. core activities: advocacy, education

—
10
Kuakini Medical Center

The mission of kuakini medical center 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…

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
Maika I Health Corporation

To be the patient-centered healthcare home that is accessible for all and be the center for healthcare learning excellence in East Hawaii.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hui Malama Ola Na Oiwi and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%3%<5yr15%0%5–10yr18%12%10–20yr18%38%20–35yr12%27%35–55yr13%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr18%5%10–20yr18%40%20–35yr12%25%35–55yr13%30%55yr+

The field is 25% 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%0/40
the rest of the field
13%
1,073/8,059

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

35 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. 35 of the 39 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
28/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WEST HAWAII COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $893,605 · HealthWEST HAWAII COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER I…KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES — $565,243 · HealthKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAM…WAIMANALO HEALTH CENTER — $534,756 · HealthWAIMANALO HEALTH CENTERWAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH & — $476,662 · HealthWAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH &HAMAKUA HEALTH CENTER INC — $445,696 · HealthHAMAKUA HEALTH CENTER INCAmerican Heart Association Inc — $433,346 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF MAUI INC — $316,842 · HealthCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF MAUI INCTHE WAHIAWA CENTER FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH — $250,000 · HealthTHE WAHIAWA CENTER FOR COMMUNITY HEAL…LANAI COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $180,847 · HealthMOLOKAI OHANA HEALTH CARE INC — $164,668 · Health+7 more — $366,831 · Health+7 moreUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $2,797,353 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATI…PUNAHOU SCHOOL — $330,000 · EducationPUNAHOU SCHOOLUniversity of the Pacific — $307,326 · EducationUniversity of the Pacific+2 more — $185,733 · EducationHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,450,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FO…HUI NO KE OLA PONO INC — $625,568 · OtherHUI NO KE OLA …KALIHI-PALAMA HEALTH CENTER (HALE HO'OLA HOU) — $316,515 · OtherKALIHI-PALAMA …KAHUKU MEDICAL CENTER — $259,563 · OtherKAHUKU MEDICAL…ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM OF HAWAII — $150,000 · OtherST FRANCIS HEA…FRIENDS OF DENTAL HYGIENE — $121,027 · OtherFRIENDS OF DEN…BAY CLINIC INC — $115,179 · OtherBAY CLINIC INC+7 more — $217,252 · Other+7 moreALOHA MEDICAL MISSION — $1,245,000 · InternationalALOHA MEDI…SPECIAL OLYMPICS HAWAII INC — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $64,667 · Food & Nutrition
Health$4,628,496Education$3,620,412Philanthropy$2,450,000Other$1,805,104International$1,245,000Recreation & Sports$100,000Food & Nutrition$64,667

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $2,797,353 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,450,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetALOHA MEDICAL MISSION — $1,245,000 over 5y, 48% of budgetWEST HAWAII COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $893,605 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetHUI NO KE OLA PONO INC — $625,568 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES — $565,243 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWAIMANALO HEALTH CENTER — $534,756 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetWAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH & — $476,662 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHAMAKUA HEALTH CENTER INC — $445,696 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $433,346 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL — $330,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF MAUI INC — $316,842 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetKALIHI-PALAMA HEALTH CENTER (HALE HO'OLA HOU) — $316,515 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of the Pacific — $307,326 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WAHIAWA CENTER FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH — $250,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetLANAI COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $180,847 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetMOLOKAI OHANA HEALTH CARE INC — $164,668 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM OF HAWAII — $150,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBAY CLINIC INC — $115,179 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNA LEI WILI AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER — $112,690 over 1y, 19% of budgetDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK — $112,450 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS HAWAII INC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE — $82,529 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHAWAII CHILDREN'S ACTION NETWORK — $73,043 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetKOOLAULOA HEALTH CENTER — $64,957 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $64,667 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHUI MALAMA OLA NA OIWI — $59,406 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWAIKIKI HEALTH — $52,980 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FUTURE — $50,786 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMULTIPLIER — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER — $26,555 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII COALITION FOR HEALTH — $5,360 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

AlohacareThe Harry and Jeanett…Atherton Family Found…Hawaii Primary Care A…Aloha United Way IncStupski FoundationDirect ReliefHawaii Public Health …Essential Access Heal…Bank of Hawaii Charit…Association of Asian …The Queen's Medical C…
AlohacareHI45.1× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alohacare · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Atherton Family Foundation · Hawaii Primary Care Association · Aloha United Way Inc · Stupski Foundation · Direct Relief · Hawaii Public Health Institute · Essential Access Health · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations · The Queen's Medical Center

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 Foundation 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%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of 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

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 39 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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