How much does Hawaii Justice Foundation give?

Hawaii Justice Foundation reported 27 itemized grants totaling $2,657,169, out of $3,418,131 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Hawaii Justice Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (58%), Education (11%), Human Services (11%).

Who are Hawaii Justice Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Legal Aid Society of Hawaii ($2.3M), Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii ($1.2M), University of Hawaii Foundation ($1.1M).

Does Hawaii Justice Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Hawaii Justice Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc, Aloha United Way Inc, Atherton Family Foundation.

Where is Hawaii Justice Foundation based?

Hawaii Justice Foundation is based in HI.

Hawaii Justice Foundation

Hawaii Justice Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Hawaii Justice Foundation

To facilitate the public's knowledge and understanding of the law, provide legal aid to the poor and improve the administration of justice.

$3.4M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$450k

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 2024.

Crime & Legal$5.9MEducation$1.1MHuman Services$1.1MReligion$970kYouth Development$295kCommunity Improvement$229kArts & Culture$193kHealth$132kOther$0

02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 27 grants below total $2,657,169, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,418,131 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $760,962 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 · FY2024

$10k–50k11 grants · $155k
$50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
$250k+3 grants · $1.2M

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF HAWAII	$450,000
VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES OF HAWAII	$360,000
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER	$360,000
THE LEGAL CLINIC	$232,000
MEDIATION CENTER OF THE PACIFIC INC	$200,000
HAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW	$150,000
KUIKAHI MEDIATION CENTER INC	$100,000
MEDIATION SERVICES OF MAUI	$100,000
WEST HAWAII MEDIATION CENTER	$100,000
KAUAI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC	$100,000
NATIVE HAWAIIAN LEGAL CORPORATION	$80,000
ETHNIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION	$70,000
PRO BONO ORGANIZATION FOR NATIVE	$50,169
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII	$50,000
HAWAII DISABILITY RIGHTS CENTER	$50,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

$9.8M · 24 repeat orgs$361k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.8M

$291k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%

+32%

Still filing today

92%

80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Crime & LegalHuman ServicesEducationReligionArts & CultureHealthOther

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

LA
LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF HAWAII
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +25%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +56%
DV
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER
8× · 2017–2024 · $910k · revenue +37%

Funded once

LS
LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATIONgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue +32%
UM
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
one grant, 2019 · $60k
II
Island Institute
one grant, 2017 · $56k · revenue -7%

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.

Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation

Environment

Hawaii Island Chamber of Commerce

Assist businesses and promote Hawaii Island.

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Hawaii Maritime Center

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Hawaii Workers Center

The hawaii workers center envisions a hawaii in which all workers are empowered to exercise their right to organize for their social, economic and political well-being.

Education

E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute

Environment

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

Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

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

Human Services

Hawaii Alliance for Community-Based Economic Development

To encourage increased investment in sustainable and community-based approaches to economic development hacbed advances its mission to address, social, economic, and environmental justice in hawaii through community based economic…

Unclassified

Hawaii Education Institute

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Hawaii Island Economic Development Board

To provide and promote private sector support and expertise for balanced growth in hawai'i county in partnership with federal, state, county and private resources.

Crime & Legal

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

Lai Hauola

To preserve the immediate and long-term health and wellbeing of lahaina's diverse communities and precious natural resources.

Food & Nutrition

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legal Aid Society of Hawaii; the most unlike its peers is University of Hawaii Foundation. 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

28 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. 28 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/28

Grantees still filing

20/28

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Crime & Legal$5,113,445Human Services$1,397,850Education$1,182,034Other$1,061,300Religion$909,750Arts & Culture$193,400Health$131,950Food & Nutrition$127,850

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.

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.

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation IncMD28.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Aloha United Way Inc · Atherton Family Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Hawaii Island United Way Inc · Hawaii State Bar Foundation · Hawaii Women's Legal Foundation · Kauai United Way · Hawai'i Pacific Health · Padosi Foundation · Hawaii Hotel Industry Foundation · McInerny 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 Justice Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hawaii Justice Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

15report 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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