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Hawaii Investment Ready

Education and capacity building for both the entrepreneurs and funders (philanthropy, government, and private) that are collectively addressing social and environmental challenges in Hawaii.

$18k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
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 FY2020–2024.

Human Services$775kCommunity Improvement$368kFood & Nutrition$341kEnvironment$325kEmployment$269kEducation$211kPhilanthropy$198kHealth$197kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $12,410 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $18,410 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,000 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.

$12,410
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Moolelo Hawaii - fiscally sponsored program of Kealopiko Inc$12,410
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 (FY20–20, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Alternative Structures Internation dba Kahumana Organic Farms: $62k → 9%Touch A Heart Inc: $81k → 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.

03Your 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
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
2
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
3
Hiikua a Hiialo Cultural Foundation
Arts & Culture
4
Na Mamo o Kawa

to rehabilitate, curate, and steward the natural and cultural resources of Kawa to honor the past, benefit the present, and preserve for the future generations of Ka'u, the Island of Hawaii and all humankind.

Environment
5
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
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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
Lanikuhonua Cultural Institute
—
8
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
9
Ea Ecoversity

Ea ecoversity's mission is to provide culturally-driven learning, training, credentialing, and other long-term societal benefits to ka lahui hawai'i.

Education
10
Huliauapaa

Growing hawaii's communities through culturally based forms of innovative learning, leadership development, and collaborative networking in wahi kupuna stewardship.

Environment
11
Na Maka Haloa O Waipio

The purpose is to preserve and restore the indigenous hawiian culture, farming traditions, fishing practices and hula.

Arts & Culture
12
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kua Aina Ulu Auamo 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 16 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%4%<5yr14%13%5–10yr17%56%10–20yr18%9%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr15%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr17%61%10–20yr18%12%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr15%10%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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%0/31
the rest of the field
13%
695/5,410

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.

04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 31 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
21/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Shifted Energy Inc — $355,070 · OtherShifted Energy IncFarm Link Hawaii Inc — $341,250 · OtherFarm Link Hawaii IncLUNALILO HOME — $168,762 · OtherLUNALILO HOMELocal I a — $143,239 · OtherLocal I aHOIWAI FUND — $58,798 · OtherWaiwai Collective LLC — $58,425 · OtherTOUCH A HEART INC — $80,593 · OtherALTERNATIVE STRUCTURES INTERNATIONAL — $61,708 · OtherMALAMA LOKO EA FOUNDATION — $66,647 · Other+7 more — $194,659 · Other+7 moreKAKOO OIWI — $263,520 · Community ImprovementKAKOO OIWIULU A E LEARNING CENTER — $71,615 · Community ImprovementULU A E LEARN…+2 more — $20,000 · Community Improvement+2 moreKUA AINA ULU AUAMO — $302,363 · EnvironmentKUA AINA ULU…RE-USE HAWAII — $13,069 · Environment+1 more — $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE EDUCATION INCUBATOR — $119,075 · EducationAHA KANE - FOUNDATION FOR THE AD- VANCEMENT OF NATIVE HAWAIIAN MALES — $92,348 · EducationAWAIAULU INC — $90,304 · Arts & CultureTHE ESTRIA FOUNDATION — $72,082 · Arts & CultureRISEHI FOUNDATION — $16,000 · Arts & CultureMAKAUILA INC — $10,101 · Arts & CultureWAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $176,062 · EmploymentKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES — $163,724 · Health
Other$1,529,151Community Improvement$355,135Environment$325,432Education$211,423Arts & Culture$188,487Employment$176,062Health$163,724

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKUA AINA ULU AUAMO — $302,363 over 1y, 20% of budgetKAKOO OIWI — $263,520 over 1y, 17% of budgetWAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $176,062 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetLUNALILO HOME — $168,762 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES — $163,724 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE EDUCATION INCUBATOR — $119,075 over 1y, 24% of budgetAHA KANE - FOUNDATION FOR THE AD- VANCEMENT OF NATIVE HAWAIIAN MALES — $92,348 over 1y, 22% of budgetAWAIAULU INC — $90,304 over 1y, 15% of budgetTOUCH A HEART INC — $80,593 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE ESTRIA FOUNDATION — $72,082 over 1y, 41% of budgetULU A E LEARNING CENTER — $71,615 over 1y, 24% of budgetMALAMA LOKO EA FOUNDATION — $66,647 over 1y, 11% of budgetALTERNATIVE STRUCTURES INTERNATIONAL — $61,708 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHOIWAI FUND — $58,798 over 1y, 32% of budgetHAWAIIAN COMMUNITY ASSETS INC — $48,334 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetKANEHUNAMOKU VOYAGING ACADEMY — $27,828 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetALOHA UNITED WAY INC — $14,299 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRE-USE HAWAII — $13,069 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKUPU — $12,650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKAUILA INC — $10,101 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetIWIKUA — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHUI MALAMA I KE ALA ULILI — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHui Maka Ainana O Makana — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% 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.

Trustees of the Estat…Council for Native Ha…Atherton Family Found…Harold Kl Castle Foun…Aloha United Way IncThe Harry and Jeanett…Hau'Oli Mau Loa Found…Central Pacific Bank …Stupski FoundationFirst Nations Develop…Hmsa FoundationAltres Foundation
Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha SchoolsHI38.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement · Atherton Family Foundation · Harold Kl Castle Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Hau'Oli Mau Loa Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Stupski Foundation · First Nations Development Institute · Hmsa Foundation · Altres 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 Investment Ready 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 →
    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

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Hawaii Investment Ready?

    Find your warmest path to Hawaii Investment Ready through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 31 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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