· Private foundation
Hawaii Loa Ohana
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $925k
- $250k+2 grants · $650k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLOOD BANK OF HAWAII | $400,000 |
| HAWAII FOOD BANK | $250,000 |
| HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $125,000 |
| CHILD & FAMILY SERVICE | $125,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII | $125,000 |
| STRAUB FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $50,000 |
| BISHOP MUSEUM DIGITAL FUTURE | $50,000 |
| MAUI FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| THE FOOD BASKET | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII | $25,000 |
| ANNE K TAYLOR FUND | $25,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $412k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
17 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $805k 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
- HFHAWAII FOODBANK INC2× · 2023–2024 · $375k · revenue +49%
MAUI FOOD BANK INC2× · 2023–2024 · $350k · revenue +138%- CACHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE2× · 2023–2024 · $275k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- RYRESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENTone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +9%
- PPU'UHONUAone grant, 2023 · $100k
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKone grant, 2023 · $17k
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.
The mission of kapi'olani health foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.
Hawai`i people`s fund supports, funds, and amplifies the work of hawai`i- based grassroots organizations challenging systems of oppression.
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…
To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
Palliative care is a win-win-win-win. expanding access to palliative care benefits all parts of the healthcare system. people living with serious illness are better able to manage physical and emotional symptoms and have peace of mind that…
To combat hunger on o'ahu by ensuring reliable access to nutritious, culturally appropriate food for all.
Feed hawaii's mission is to support a sustainable regional food system by providing essential services and resources for local food producers and increasing community access to fresh healthy food.
Kaua'i medical clinic, an affliate of hawai'i pacific health, is a multi-specialty clinic dedicated to providing world-class care for adults and children across hawai'i and the pacific region in partnership with kapi'olani medical center…
The mission of the food bank is to educate, provide nutritious food for the hungry, and respond to emergencies.
The mission of pali momi foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.
The mission of kuakini foundation is to improve the health status of the community by: providing comprehensive health care services and programs at reasonable cost; continuously improving the quality of health care services and programs;…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Foodbank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hearts Landing Ranch. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% 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 13% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 42 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 HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT ↗
- Who funds BLOOD BANK OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII ↗
- Who funds Straub Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds ANNE K TAYLOR FUND ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
- Who funds FEEDING THE FOOTHILLS ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds PEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII ↗
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: Marilyn and James Pappas Charitable Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · J Watumull Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Chung Kun Ai Foundation · Castiglione A Casauria Foundation · The Clarence Tc Ching Foundation · The Queen's Medical Center · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · Stupski Foundation
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 Loa Ohana 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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