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Hawaii Foodbank Inc

Hawaii foodbank, inc.

$36M
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$261k
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 2025.

Food & Nutrition$1.9MHousing & Shelter$61kEmployment$14kHealth$500
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 26 grants below total $327,939, the rows itemized in this filing. The $36,498,147 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $36,170,208 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $67k
  • $250k+1 grant · $261k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$48M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES$260,799
HUI O HAUULA$7,850
RIVER OF LIFE MISSION$3,250
DYNAMIC COMPASSION IN ACTION$3,250
KEY PROJECT$3,250
WAIANAE BAPTIST CHURCH$3,250
RESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT (RYSE)$3,250
OUR LADY OF KEA'AU$3,250
COMMUNITY PEOPLE MINISTRIES$3,250
NANAIKAPONO PROTESTANT CHURCH$3,250
SAINT WILLIAM CHURCH$3,050
NEW LIFE BODY OF CHRIST CHRISTIAN CHURCH$3,000
PARADISE CHAPEL$3,000
ANGEL NETWORK CHARITIES$3,000
CHURCH OF THE PACIFIC$3,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COMMUNITY PEOPLE MINISTRIES: $3k → 8%US VETS HOUSEHOLD: $15k → 9%COMMUNITY PEOPLE MINISTRIES: $3k → 8%KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $6k → 9%US VETS HOUSEHOLD: $10k → 9%KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $3k → 9%COMMUNITY PEOPLE MINISTRIES: $5k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $2k → 9%THE PANTRY BY FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $52k → 9%SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 9%THE PANTRY BY FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $7k → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHERTHE PANTRY: $6k → 9%THE PANTRY BY FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $3k → 9%WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $419 → 9%KUALOA-HEEIA ECUMENCIAL YOUTH (KEY) PROJECT: $19k → 9%KEY PROJECT: $3k → 9%KEY PROJECT: $1k → 9%UNITED STATES VETERAN INITIATIVE (US VETS): $5k → 9%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $2k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 46 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
30

Total granted

$1.9M
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+18%

Still filing today

43%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterReligionCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther
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

  • WD
    WAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH &
    8× · 2017–2025 · $880k · revenue +55%
  • KK
    KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES
    7× · 2017–2023 · $100k · revenue +73%
  • CA
    CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • BS
    BANQUET SOLUTIONS HAWAII INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $14k · revenue -38%
  • SW
    SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTERgraduated
    9× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +35%
  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH KOKUA
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -1%
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
Hawaii Homeless Healthcare Hui

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…

Health
4
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
5
Koolauloa Health Center

The Center is a culturally sensitive, community-based unit which provides comprehensive healthcare services - including medical, dental, and behavioral services primarily to residents in the Koolauloa region of Oahu, Hawaii.

Health
6
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
7
Hokah Area Food Shelf
Food & Nutrition
8
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

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

Human Services
9
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
10
Aina Hookupu O Kilauea

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.

Food & Nutrition
11
Ka Hale Pomaika'i Inc

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.

Health
12
Ke Ola Hou the Lahaina Resiliency Center

Ke ola hou - the lahaina resiliency center was organized to build and operate a community resilience center at kaanapali to support the lahaina community in the aftermath of the devastating fires by providing comprehensive services to aid…

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

76 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/76
Grantees still filing
54/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH &: $879,846 · HealthWAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH &KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $100,235 · HealthKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES+8 more: $31,591 · HealthSALVATION ARMY: $124,670 · OtherSALVATION ARMYROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE STATE OF HAWAII: $67,188 · OtherROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE STATE O…GREGORY HOUSE PROGRAMS: $61,509 · OtherGREGORY HOUSE PROGRAMSCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $53,974 · OtherCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICEACHIEVE ZERO: $29,463 · OtherEPISCOPAL CHURCH IN HAWAII: $24,674 · Other+50 more: $272,749 · Other+50 moreFEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $68,723 · Human ServicesFEEDING H…UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $31,000 · Human ServicesUNITED ST…KUALOA-HEEIA ECUMENICAL YOUTH PROJECT: $23,673 · Human ServicesKUALOA-HE…COMMUNITY PEOPLE MINISTRIES: $11,316 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY…SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesSUSANNAH …KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $9,666 · Human ServicesKAUAI NOR…+2 more: $2,419 · Human ServicesIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $50,008 · Housing & ShelterRESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT: $34,986 · Housing & ShelterANGEL NETWORK CHARITIES INC: $15,789 · Housing & ShelterMUTUAL HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF HAWAII: $7,743 · Housing & ShelterPALAMA SETTLEMENT: $23,490 · Crime & LegalBANQUET SOLUTIONS HAWAII INC: $14,000 · EmploymentSURFING THE NATIONS: $10,557 · ReligionMESSAGE OF PEACE MINISTRY OUTREACH: $3,000 · Religion
Health$1,011,672Other$634,227Human Services$156,797Housing & Shelter$108,526Crime & Legal$23,490Employment$14,000Religion$13,557

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH &: $879,846 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $100,235 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $68,723 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $53,974 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $50,008 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetRESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT: $34,986 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $31,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetACHIEVE ZERO: $29,463 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetKUALOA-HEEIA ECUMENICAL YOUTH PROJECT: $23,673 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetPALAMA SETTLEMENT: $23,490 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetANGEL NETWORK CHARITIES INC: $15,789 over 9y, 5.5% of budgetBANQUET SOLUTIONS HAWAII INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER: $12,168 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PEOPLE MINISTRIES: $11,316 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetHUI O HAUULA: $10,927 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetSURFING THE NATIONS: $10,557 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetPO'AILANI INC: $9,679 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $9,666 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH KOKUA: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUTUAL HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF HAWAII: $7,743 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetHONOLULU COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $5,336 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetH U G S FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHUI MAHIAI AINA: $3,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMESSAGE OF PEACE MINISTRY OUTREACH: $3,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetHAWAII HEALTH & HARM REDUCTION CENTER: $2,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWAIKIKI HEALTH: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $2,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetHABILITAT INC: $1,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $1,063 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSUTTER HEALTH PACIFIC: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $419 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CLUB: $173 over 9y, 0.4% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Aloha HarvestAloha United Way IncBank of Hawaii Charit…J Watumull FundFriends of Hawaii Cha…Atherton Family Found…The Harry and Jeanett…Cooke Foundation Limi…Central Pacific Bank …Hawaii Hotel Industry…First Hawaiian Bank F…Tradewind Group Found…
Aloha HarvestHI115.8× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    5report 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 82 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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