· Public charity
Hawaii Island United Way Inc
Hawai'I island united way raises funds through workplace campaigns, corporate and private donors, special fundraising events, and grant writing to carry forth its mission to create a healthy and thriving community.
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 14 grants below total $172,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $233,853 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $61,853 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 $10k5 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $136k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES | $30,000 |
| THE FOOD BASKEY INC | $21,000 |
| HAWAII ISLAND HOME FOR RECOVERY | $19,000 |
| KU'IKAHI MEDIATION CENTER | $14,000 |
| KUMUKAHI HEALTH AND WELLNESS | $12,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY-KONA | $10,000 |
| THE ARC OF KONA | $10,000 |
| HAWAII ISLAND ADULT CARE INC | $10,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH KOKUA | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY-HILO | $8,000 |
| BRIDGE HOUSE INC | $8,000 |
| HOSPICE OF HILO | $7,000 |
| FULL LIFE | $7,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $6,000 |
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, $622k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CACHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE9× · 2017–2025 · $387k · revenue +50%
- TFTHE FOOD BASKET INC8× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +176%
- HSHOPE SERVICES HAWAII INC4× · 2018–2021 · $217k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- PPPAA PONO MILOLIIone grant, 2018 · $32k · revenue -66%
- PVPROJECT VISION HAWAIIgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +994%
- RCROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE STATE OF HAWAIIone grant, 2017 · $21k
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 the health and well-being of our community.
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Ohana makame inc is a behavioral health agency whose mission is to provide counseling and other related resources to the residents of east maui.
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.
Five mountains hawaii provides a full range of bio-psycho-social services to the residents of north hawai'i, with a special emphasis on addressing the physical and mental health disparities of the kanaka maoli (native hawaiian) population.…
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.
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…
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…
Hawaii island community development corporation was established on july 7, 1986, to provide families with low and moderate income with adequate housing and to acquire, construct and provide housing related activities.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hui Malama Ola Na Oiwi and the most unlike its peers is Kokolulu Farm & Cancer Retreats 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 43 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 49 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 CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE SERVICES HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY HAWAII ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII ISLAND ADULT CARE INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII ISLAND HOME FOR RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF HILO ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE BIG ISLAND ↗
- Who funds HAWAII ISLAND HIVAIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KONA ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH KOKUA ↗
- Who funds KUIKAHI MEDIATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF WEST HAWAII ↗
- Who funds BIG ISLAND MEDIATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF HAWAII ISLAND ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD PLACE OF PUNA ↗
- Who funds Hamakua Youth Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds BIG ISLAND SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PARENTS INC ↗
- Who funds KONA ADULT DAY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BRANTLEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF EAST HAWAII ↗
- Who funds PAA PONO MILOLII ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF HILO ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VISION HAWAII ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-ALOHA COUNCIL #104 ↗
- Who funds FULL LIFE ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COUNTY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PATCH (PEOPLE ATTENTIVE TO CHILDREN) ↗
- Who funds CARERESOURCE HAWAII ↗
- Who funds WAIKIKI HEALTH ↗
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: Atherton Family Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Hawaii Hotel Industry Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc · J Watumull Fund · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Aloha United Way Inc · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Hawaii Community Lending · Kauai United Way
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 Island United Way 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.
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