· Public charity
Hawaii Foodbank Inc
Hawaii foodbank, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 26 grants below total $327,939 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $36,498,147 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $36,170,208 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $67k
- $250k+1 grant · $261k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES | $260,799 |
| HUI O HAUULA | $7,850 |
| KEY PROJECT | $3,250 |
| NANAIKAPONO PROTESTANT CHURCH | $3,250 |
| OUR LADY OF KEA'AU | $3,250 |
| RESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT (RYSE) | $3,250 |
| WAIANAE BAPTIST CHURCH | $3,250 |
| DYNAMIC COMPASSION IN ACTION | $3,250 |
| COMMUNITY PEOPLE MINISTRIES | $3,250 |
| RIVER OF LIFE MISSION | $3,250 |
| SAINT WILLIAM CHURCH | $3,050 |
| WESTSIDE CHRISTIAN CENTER | $3,000 |
| NEW LIFE BODY OF CHRIST CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| THE PANTRY BY FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER | $3,000 |
| PARADISE CHAPEL | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $157k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
46 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WDWAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH &8× · 2017–2025 · $880k · revenue +55%
- KKKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES7× · 2017–2023 · $100k · revenue +73%
- CACHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE9× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- BSBANQUET SOLUTIONS HAWAII INC3× · 2022–2024 · $14k · revenue -38%
- SWSUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTERgraduated9× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +35%
- MHMENTAL HEALTH KOKUAone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -1%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To improve access to healthcare, hygiene care, social services, and to provide transitional and permanent housing to hawaii's homeless and underserved populations. provide walk-in medical clinic services in honolulu regardless of an…
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.
To provide "culturally-minded evidenced-based behavioral health care that is responsive to the needs of the medically underserved, predominantly native hawaiian, and rural communities. the organization provides behavioral health services…
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
Improve the environmental, social & economic well-being of the kilauea community and kauai by developing county of kauai land into a community garden,individual farming plots, farmers market & other facilities.
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…
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…
Ka hale pomaika'i seeks to offer culturally respectful, sober support services including community education, relapse prevention, and sober housing to adults in early recovery from addiction on the island of moloka'i.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hale Kipa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Malama Popoki. 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 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
76 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. 76 of the 82 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds WAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH & ↗
- Who funds KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds RESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE ZERO ↗
- Who funds KUALOA-HEEIA ECUMENICAL YOUTH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PALAMA SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds ANGEL NETWORK CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BANQUET SOLUTIONS HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds PARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PEOPLE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HUI O HAUULA ↗
- Who funds SURFING THE NATIONS ↗
- Who funds SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PO'AILANI INC ↗
- Who funds KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH KOKUA ↗
- Who funds MUTUAL HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF HAWAII ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Aloha Harvest · Aloha United Way Inc · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · J Watumull Fund · Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc · Atherton Family Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Cooke Foundation Limited · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Hawaii Hotel Industry Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Tradewind Group 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 Foodbank Inc 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.
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.