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Hawaii State Bar Foundation

(1) to promote justice through programs such as access to justice for persons in need of legal services, civics education, and other public service programs and projects, including programs and projects of the hawaii state bar association; (2) to improve the administration of justice through the creation, development, funding, and…

$165k
Granted FY2023
6
Itemized grants FY2023
6
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$155k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$8,750
Largest grant, FY2023
$111,071
Organizations funded a year
2 to 6
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$263k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Hawaii State Bar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20236$155k17%
FY20224$42k50%
FY20215$142k60%
FY20202$62k50%
FY20192$19k100%
FY20172$58kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Crime & Legal$467kPhilanthropy$11k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hawaii State Bar Association$178,07135%
Legal Aid Society of Hawaii$100,00011%
Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii$65,25054%
Big Island Mediation$24,00033%
The Mediation Center of the Pacific Inc$14,00021%
Kuikahi Mediation Center Inc$12,30022%
Beta Beta Gamma Foundation$10,50019%
Maui County Bar Association$8,7501n/a
Friends of Family Specialty Courts$6,5001n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($58k), not named here.

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.

Hawaii Justice FoundationHI15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hawaii Justice Foundation · Hawaii Women's Legal Foundation · The Cades Foundation · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Hawaii State Bar Foundation

How much does Hawaii State Bar Foundation give?
Hawaii State Bar Foundation reported 6 itemized grants totaling $154,821, out of $164,821 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Hawaii State Bar Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (98%), Philanthropy (2%).
Who are Hawaii State Bar Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Hawaii State Bar Association ($178k), Legal Aid Society of Hawaii ($100k), Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii ($65k).
Does Hawaii State Bar Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hawaii State Bar Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hawaii Justice Foundation, Hawaii Women's Legal Foundation, The Cades Foundation.
Where is Hawaii State Bar Foundation based?
Hawaii State Bar Foundation is based in HI.

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 11 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $51k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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