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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.

$234k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
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.

Human Services$971kHealth$822kHousing & Shelter$540kYouth Development$279kCrime & Legal$255kFood & Nutrition$240kPublic Safety & Disaster$156kEmployment$32kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $172,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $233,853 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $61,853 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 $10k5 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $136k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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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.

area typical 7%PEOPLE ATTENTIVE TO CHILDREN: $8k → 15%PEOPLE ATTENTIVE TO CHILDREN: $7k → 15%BRANTLEY CENTER: $9k → 15%BRANTLEY CENTER: $8k → 15%Brantley Center: $8k → 15%BRANTLEY CENTER: $8k → 15%HI ISLAND HIVAIDS FOUNDATION: $21k → 15%HI ISLAND HIVAIDS FOUNDATION: $18k → 15%HI ISLAND HIVAIDS FOUNDATION: $15k → 15%Hawaii Island HIVAIDS Found: $15k → 15%WEST HAWAII MEDIATION CENTER: $13k → 15%WEST HAWAII MEDIATION CENTER: $11k → 15%WEST HAWAII MEDIATION CENTER: $11k → 15%Big Island Mediation (West HI): $11k → 15%BIG ISLAND MEDITATION (WEST HI): $8k → 15%BIG ISLAND MEDITATION (WEST HI): $7k → 15%BIG ISLAND MEDITATION (WEST HI): $7k → 15%BIG ISLAND MEDITATION (WEST HI): $7k → 15%HAWAII ISLAND ADULT CARE: $26k → 15%Hawaii Island Adult Care Inc: $26k → 15%HAWAII ISLAND ADULT CARE: $26k → 15%Hospice of Hilo: $24k → 15%HOSPICE OF HILO: $24k → 15%HOSPICE OF HILO: $23k → 15%HAWAII ISLAND ADULT CARE: $17k → 15%HAWAII ISLAND ADULT CARE INC: $16k → 15%HAWAII ISLAND ADULT CARE INC: $16k → 15%KUMUKAHI HEALTH AND WELLNESS: $15k → 15%HOSPICE OF HILO: $15k → 15%HOSPICE OF HILO: $15k → 15%KUMUKAHI HEALTH AND WELLNESS: $14k → 15%KUMUKAHI HEALTH AND WELLNESS: $12k → 15%HAWAII ISLAND ADULT CARE INC: $10k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 15%FULL LIFE: $10k → 15%HCEOC: $10k → 15%HCEOC: $10k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $9k → 15%FULL LIFE: $9k → 15%HOSPICE OF HILO: $9k → 15%HOSPICE OF HILO: $8k → 15%HOSPICE OF HILO: $7k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $7k → 15%HAWAII ISLAND ADULT CARE INC: $7k → 15%HOSPICE OF HILO: $7k → 15%FULL LIFE: $7k → 15%KUMUKAHI HEALTH AND WELLENSS: $7k → 15%KUMUKAHI HEALTH AND WELLENSS: $7k → 15%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.
$3.2M · 37 repeat orgs$133k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
12

Total granted

$3.2M
$133k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+14%

Still filing today

86%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CA
    CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $387k · revenue +50%
  • TF
    THE FOOD BASKET INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +176%
  • HS
    HOPE SERVICES HAWAII INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $217k · revenue +209%

Funded once

  • PP
    PAA PONO MILOLII
    one grant, 2018 · $32k · revenue -66%
  • PV
    PROJECT VISION HAWAIIgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +994%
  • RC
    ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE STATE OF HAWAII
    one 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.

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
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

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

Human Services
3
Hoomau Ke Ola

Ho`omau ke ola provides comprehensive rehabilitation services including residential and outpatient care, treatment, and counseling to persons recovering from problems related to persons with mental and substance abuse disorders. ho`omau ke…

Health
4
Ohana Makamae Inc

Ohana makame inc is a behavioral health agency whose mission is to provide counseling and other related resources to the residents of east maui.

Health
5
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
6
Five Mountains Hawaii Inc

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.…

Health
7
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
8
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
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
Hawaii Island Community Development Corporation

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.

Housing & Shelter
11
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
12
I Ola Lahui Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hui Malama Ola Na Oiwi; 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.
04the grantee network

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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/44
Grantees still filing
34/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $387,365 · OtherCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICEHOPE SERVICES HAWAII INC: $217,195 · OtherHOPE SERVICES HAWAII INCKONA ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS: $121,703 · OtherKONA ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENSAMERICAN RED CROSS: $91,360 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSFAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF WEST HAWAII: $77,263 · OtherFAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF WEST HAWAIIYWCA OF HAWAII ISLAND: $66,628 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII INC: $58,398 · OtherSalvation Army Hawaiian and Pacific Islands Division: $46,280 · OtherSALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORP: $45,683 · Other+10 more: $253,131 · Other+10 moreHAWAII ISLAND ADULT CARE INC: $150,407 · Human ServicesHAWAII ISLAND ADULT C…HOSPICE OF HILO: $131,321 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF HILOHAWAII ISLAND HIVAIDS FOUNDATION: $122,410 · Human ServicesHAWAII ISLAND HIVAIDS…BIG ISLAND MEDIATION: $72,794 · Human ServicesBIG ISLAND MEDIATIONBRANTLEY CENTER INC: $36,530 · Human ServicesBRANTLEY CENTER INCAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $32,167 · Human ServicesFULL LIFE: $26,167 · Human Services+5 more: $53,523 · Human Services+5 moreBRIDGE HOUSE INC: $174,323 · HealthBRIDGE HOUS…MENTAL HEALTH KOKUA: $96,487 · HealthMENTAL HEAL…PROJECT VISION HAWAII: $30,000 · HealthPROJECT VIS…+4 more: $24,200 · Health+4 moreHABITAT FOR HUMANITY HAWAII ISLAND INC: $184,511 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR…HAWAII ISLAND HOME FOR RECOVERY: $138,201 · Housing & ShelterHAWAII ISLA…THE FOOD BASKET INC: $240,008 · Food & NutritionBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE BIG ISLAND: $124,063 · Youth DevelopmentHamakua Youth Foundation Inc: $48,670 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII: $46,067 · Youth DevelopmentKUIKAHI MEDIATION CENTER INC: $78,380 · Crime & LegalNEIGHBORHOOD PLACE OF PUNA: $54,745 · Crime & LegalPARENTS INC: $39,730 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF HAWAII: $29,431 · Crime & LegalTHREE RING RANCH: $6,000 · Animals
Other$1,365,006Human Services$625,319Health$325,010Housing & Shelter$322,712Food & Nutrition$240,008Youth Development$218,800Crime & Legal$202,286Animals$6,000

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 budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $387,365 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOOD BASKET INC: $240,008 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE SERVICES HAWAII INC: $217,195 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY HAWAII ISLAND INC: $184,511 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetBRIDGE HOUSE INC: $174,323 over 9y, 6.6% of budgetHAWAII ISLAND ADULT CARE INC: $150,407 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetHAWAII ISLAND HOME FOR RECOVERY: $138,201 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetHOSPICE OF HILO: $131,321 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE BIG ISLAND: $124,063 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetHAWAII ISLAND HIVAIDS FOUNDATION: $122,410 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetKONA ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS: $121,703 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH KOKUA: $96,487 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetKUIKAHI MEDIATION CENTER INC: $78,380 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF WEST HAWAII: $77,263 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBIG ISLAND MEDIATION: $72,794 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetYWCA OF HAWAII ISLAND: $66,628 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII INC: $58,398 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD PLACE OF PUNA: $54,745 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetHamakua Youth Foundation Inc: $48,670 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII: $46,067 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBIG ISLAND SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNCIL: $44,545 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPARENTS INC: $39,730 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetKONA ADULT DAY CENTER: $38,800 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetBRANTLEY CENTER INC: $36,530 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF EAST HAWAII: $34,930 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $32,167 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF HILO: $31,590 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPROJECT VISION HAWAII: $30,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF HAWAII: $29,431 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-ALOHA COUNCIL #104: $29,130 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFULL LIFE: $26,167 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII COUNTY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $19,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPATCH (PEOPLE ATTENTIVE TO CHILDREN): $18,723 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCARERESOURCE HAWAII: $10,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAIKIKI HEALTH: $10,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHALE KIPA INC: $7,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHREE RING RANCH: $6,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetALOHA INDEPENDENT LIVING HAWAII: $5,100 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKokolulu Farm & Cancer Retreats Inc: $5,100 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetHUI MALAMA OLA NA OIWI: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF KONA INC: $3,300 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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.

Atherton Family FoundationHI43.7× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 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.

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
    18report 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.
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    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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