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Hawaii Public Health Institute
To advance health and wellness of the people and islands of hawai'I.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $517k
- $250k+1 grant · $372k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC | $372,107 |
| HAWAIII VA FOUNDATION | $192,850 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII - OFFICE OF RESEARCH SERVICES | $149,495 |
| HUI O HAU'ULA | $112,293 |
| NA HOALOHA MAUI INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS | $62,157 |
| WAIANAE COAST COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTER | $38,377 |
| PEAR SUITE | $31,434 |
| CENTER FOR GETTING THINGS STARTED | $30,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $656k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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 +16% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 4 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $577k 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
- PVPROJECT VISION HAWAII3× · 2021–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +122%
- WDWAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH &3× · 2022–2024 · $739k · revenue +16%
- HMHEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTHY BABIES COALITION OF HAWAII2× · 2022–2023 · $558k · revenue +138% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- MIMAKAUILA INCone grant, 2022 · $510k · revenue +12% · 43% of their budget
- KRKAU RURAL HEALTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2021 · $105k · revenue -84% · 32% of their budget
- LCLANAI COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +0%
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 provide high quality medical and social services that are affordable and accessible for everyone regardless of ability to pay.
Promote and protect access to quality health care in Hawaii with emphasis on rural areas. Advocating for patient access rights and providing pediatric primary care. Operating a pediatric primary care clinic in Wahiawa and North Shore Oahu
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
To provide and promote accessible comprehensive individual and community health care to the people of molokai with respect and aloha.
Hui malama ola na 'oiwi is a community-based native hawaiian health care system whose mission is to improve the provision of comprehensive disease prevention, health promotion, and primary care services on hawaii island.
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…
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.
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;…
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 hui no ke ola pono is to improve the health status of native hawaiians by empowering the present and future generations to be their own health advocates. hui no ke ola pono serves as a "bridge" to the native hawaiian…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Hawaii Community Health Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hui O Hauula. 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 24 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 27 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 PROJECT VISION HAWAII ↗
- Who funds WAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH & ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTHY BABIES COALITION OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds MAKAUILA INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WE ARE OCEANIA ↗
- Who funds HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds ALOHA HARVEST ↗
- Who funds THE FILIPINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII VA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST HAWAII COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE WAHIAWA CENTER FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds HAMAKUA HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WAIMANALO HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds HUI O HAUULA ↗
- Who funds KAU RURAL HEALTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LANAI COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds KOOLAULOA HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds KAUAI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NA HOALOHA-MAUI INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR GETTING THINGS STARTED ↗
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: Alohacare · Aloha United Way Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Atherton Family Foundation · Hawaii Dental Service Foundation · Stupski Foundation · Hmsa Foundation · Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc · J Watumull Fund · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Hawaii Primary Care Association · Essential Access Health
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 Public Health Institute 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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