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Hawaii Public Health Institute at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Hawaii Public Health Institute

To advance health and wellness of the people and islands of hawai'I.

$998k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$372k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$6.9MFood & Nutrition$1.4MPhilanthropy$200kScience & Tech$185kHuman Services$156kCommunity Improvement$112kInternational$30k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $517k
  • $250k+1 grant · $372k
$112,293
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%KAUAI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY: $94k → 9%NA HOALOHA MAUI INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $62k → 9%WE ARE OCEANIA: $376k → 9%WE ARE OCEANIA: $124k → 9%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.4M · 18 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
5

Total granted

$7.4M
$909k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+0%

Still filing today

72%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $577k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • PV
    PROJECT VISION HAWAII
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +122%
  • WD
    WAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH &
    3× · 2022–2024 · $739k · revenue +16%
  • HM
    HEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTHY BABIES COALITION OF HAWAII
    2× · 2022–2023 · $558k · revenue +138% · 31% of their budget

Funded once

  • MI
    MAKAUILA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $510k · revenue +5% · 43% of their budget
  • KR
    KAU RURAL HEALTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $105k · revenue -84% · 32% of their budget
  • KH
    KOOLAULOA HEALTH CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +4%
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
Waikiki Health

To provide high quality medical and social services that are affordable and accessible for everyone regardless of ability to pay.

Health
2
Hawaii Coalition for Health

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

Health
3
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
4
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

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

Human Services
5
Hui Malama Ola Na Oiwi

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.

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6
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
7
Molokai Ohana Health Care Inc

To provide and promote accessible comprehensive individual and community health care to the people of molokai with respect and aloha.

Health
8
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
9
Kaua'i Medical Clinic

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…

Health
10
Kuakini Foundation

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;…

—
11
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
12
Kuakini Medical Center

The mission of kuakini medical center 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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Hawaii Community Health Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 27 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROJECT VISION HAWAII: $1,079,991 · HealthPROJECT VISION HAWAIIWAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH &: $738,955 · HealthWAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH &HEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTHY BABIES COALITION OF HAWAII: $558,334 · HealthHEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTHY BABIES COALITION O…WEST HAWAII COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $170,000 · HealthTHE WAHIAWA CENTER FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH: $170,000 · HealthWAIMANALO HEALTH CENTER: $120,000 · HealthHAMAKUA HEALTH CENTER INC: $120,000 · Health+4 more: $405,000 · Health+4 morePEAR SUITE: $763,130 · OtherPEAR SUITEALL HIM PRODUCTIONS: $699,548 · OtherALL HIM PRODUCTIONSMARSHALLESE COMMUNITY ORG OF HI: $625,000 · OtherMARSHALLESE COMMUNITY ORG OF HIEAST HAWAII IPA: $432,000 · OtherEAST HAWAII IPATHE FILIPINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $207,154 · OtherTHE FILIPINO COMMUNITY CENTER INCUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEM: $185,495 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMWE ARE OCEANIA: $500,000 · Human ServicesKAUAI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INCORPORATED: $93,951 · Human ServicesNA HOALOHA-MAUI INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $62,157 · Human ServicesHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $372,107 · Food & NutritionALOHA HARVEST: $264,287 · Food & NutritionPARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $502,217 · Community ImprovementHUI O HAUULA: $112,293 · Community ImprovementMAKAUILA INC: $509,983 · Arts & CultureHAWAII VA FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyCENTER FOR GETTING THINGS STARTED: $30,000 · International
Health$3,362,280Other$2,912,327Human Services$656,108Food & Nutrition$636,394Community Improvement$614,510Arts & Culture$509,983Philanthropy$200,000International$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPROJECT VISION HAWAII: $1,079,991 over 3y, 13% of budgetWAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH &: $738,955 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTHY BABIES COALITION OF HAWAII: $558,334 over 2y, 31% of budgetMAKAUILA INC: $509,983 over 1y, 43% of budgetPARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $502,217 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWE ARE OCEANIA: $500,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $372,107 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetALOHA HARVEST: $264,287 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE FILIPINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $207,154 over 2y, 13% of budgetHAWAII VA FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 85% of budgetWEST HAWAII COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $170,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WAHIAWA CENTER FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH: $170,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWAIMANALO HEALTH CENTER: $120,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHAMAKUA HEALTH CENTER INC: $120,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHUI O HAUULA: $112,293 over 1y, 24% of budgetKAU RURAL HEALTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $105,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetKOOLAULOA HEALTH CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLANAI COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKAUAI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INCORPORATED: $93,951 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNA HOALOHA-MAUI INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $62,157 over 1y, 11% of budgetCENTER FOR GETTING THINGS STARTED: $30,000 over 1y, 6.7% 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.

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.

AlohacareAloha United Way IncThe Harry and Jeanett…Atherton Family Found…Hawaii Dental Service…Stupski FoundationHmsa FoundationFriends of Hawaii Cha…J Watumull FundBank of Hawaii Charit…Hawaii Primary Care A…Essential Access Heal…
AlohacareHI30.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Public Health Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hawaii Public Health Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%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
    7report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Hawaii Public Health Institute?

    Find your warmest path to Hawaii Public Health Institute through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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