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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
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02The needRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $12,410, the rows itemized in this filing. The $18,410 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,000 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.
$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
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its 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
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 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.

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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
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kua Aina Ulu Auamo; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 31 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetHui Maka Ainana O Makana: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetIWIKUA: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHUI MALAMA I KE ALA ULILI: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%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.
    04Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 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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