· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| HAWAII ISLAND ADULT CARE INC | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY-KONA | $10,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH KOKUA | $10,000 |
| THE ARC OF KONA | $10,000 |
| BRIDGE HOUSE INC | $8,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY-HILO | $8,000 |
| FULL LIFE | $7,000 |
| HOSPICE OF HILO | $7,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +209%
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
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.
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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How this is measured
44 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. 44 of the 49 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hawaii Island United Way Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hawaii Island United Way Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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