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Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau at a glance

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Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau

As the tourism marketing organization for the state of hawaii, the mission of the HAWAII VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU is to create sustainable, diversified, leisure and business travel demand for the hawaiian islands.

$3.9M
Granted FY2023
67
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$2.8MRecreation & Sports$1.1MCommunity Improvement$597kEducation$515kFood & Nutrition$511kEnvironment$275kYouth Development$237kAnimals$104kOther$0
02FY2023 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k6 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $963k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$33,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE IRONMAN FOUNDATION INC$500,000
HAWAII AG AND CULINARY ALLIANCE$350,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA INC$300,000
CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU$200,000
HAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL$150,000
MERRIE MONARCH FESTIVAL$120,000
HISTORIC WAIMEA THEATER & CULTURAL ARTS CENTER$101,600
MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC$100,000
KALIHI-PALAMA CULTURE & ARTS SOCIETY INC$100,000
ALOHA WEEK HAWAII INC$100,000
LOKAHI PACIFIC$85,280
KONA COFFEE CULTURAL FESTIVAL$75,000
HANAPEPE ECONOMIC ALLIANCE$71,000
HUI NOEAU VISUAL ARTS CENTER$69,000
YOUTH IN MOTION$67,322
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 (FY22–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARTS EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN GROUP: $33k → 9%ARTS EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN GROUP: $18k → 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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 43 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
25

Total granted

$4.0M
$740k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+28%

Still filing today

91%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementEducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • HA
    HAWAII AG AND CULINARY ALLIANCE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $470k · revenue +3%
  • HI
    HAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
    2× · 2022–2023 · $218k · revenue +17%
  • TM
    THE MERRIE MONARCH FESTIVAL
    2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • HS
    HAWAII STATE ART MUSEUM
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • HB
    HONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $110k · revenue -61%
  • HH
    HAWAII HORSE OWNERS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $70k
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
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
2
Hiikua a Hiialo Cultural Foundation
Arts & Culture
3
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
4
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
5
Lanikuhonua Cultural Institute
—
6
Na Mamo o Kawa

to rehabilitate, curate, and steward the natural and cultural resources of Kawa to honor the past, benefit the present, and preserve for the future generations of Ka'u, the Island of Hawaii and all humankind.

Environment
7
Malama Kua Aina
Environment
8
Kauahea Inc

Kauahea, inc. supports hawaiian arts and culture, hawaiian spiritual practices, and the preservation and perpetuation of hawaiian language by providing access to learning opportunities throughout our community.

Unclassified
9
Hanalei River Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
10
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
—
11
Ka Makani Kaili Koa

Operating exclusively for charitable, educational, scientific, and literary purposes, the organization preserves and advances Native Hawaiian culture through education, leadership, and STREAMY integration: Sciences, Technologies, Reading,…

Arts & Culture
12
Na Aikane O Pu'ukohola Heiau

Support the Annual Hookuikahi Festival with funds and hands. We sponsor workshops for Hawaiian language, Hawaiian historical arts and crafts, Hawaiian music, and history and legacies of Kawaihae Puukohola Heiau.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii United Okinawa Association; the most unlike its peers is Hawaii Book and Music Festival. 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

80 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. 80 of the 92 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.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/80
Grantees still filing
59/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: $217,900 · Arts & CultureHAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALTHE MERRIE MONARCH FESTIVAL: $200,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MERRIE MONARCH FESTIVALHISTORIC WAIMEA THEATER AND CULTURAL ARTS CENTER: $186,600 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC WAIMEA THEATER AND CULTUR…ALOHA WEEK HAWAII INC DBA ALOHA FESTIVALS: $177,000 · Arts & CultureALOHA WEEK HAWAII INC DBA ALOHA FE…MOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC: $116,000 · Arts & CultureMOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INCHONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATION: $110,000 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATIONMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $95,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII UNITED OKINAWA ASSOCIATION: $75,000 · Arts & CultureLANA'I CULTURE & HERITAGE CENTER: $69,000 · Arts & Culture+22 more: $652,746 · Arts & Culture+22 moreHAWAII STATE ART MUSEUM: $150,000 · OtherHAWAII STATE ART MUSEUMKALIHI-PALAMA CULTURE & ARTS SOCIETY INC: $128,000 · OtherKALIHI-PALAMA CULTURE & ARTS SO…HUI NO'EAU: $125,000 · OtherHUI NO'EAUKAIOPUA CANOE CLUB: $101,650 · OtherKAIOPUA CANOE CLUBKI-HO ALU FOUNDATION INC: $96,000 · OtherKI-HO ALU FOUNDATION INCEPIC SPORTS FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · OtherHAWAII HORSE OWNERS INC: $70,000 · OtherTHE GARDEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL: $68,000 · OtherPOIPU BEACH FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 · OtherPOIPU BEACH FOUNDATION INCKANU HAWAII: $90,000 · OtherACCESSURF HAWAII INC: $73,000 · OtherODKF SUPPORT INC: $120,000 · OtherODKF SUPPORT INC+23 more: $554,764 · Other+23 moreTeach for America Inc: $300,000 · EducationTeach for Ame…CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU: $200,000 · EducationCHAMINADE UNI…Hawaii Performing Arts Festival Inc: $110,000 · EducationHawaii Perfor…Youth in Motion: $103,322 · EducationYouth in Moti…+2 more: $41,000 · Education+2 moreHAWAII AG AND CULINARY ALLIANCE: $470,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII AG A…KONA COFFEE CULTURAL FESTIVAL: $150,000 · Food & NutritionKONA COFFEE…HAWAII AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Food & NutritionTHE IRONMAN FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyTHE IRONMA…THE KAUAI MARATHON: $93,500 · PhilanthropyTHE KAUAI …LOKAHI PACIFIC: $147,485 · Community ImprovementHanapepe Economic Alliance Inc: $113,000 · Community ImprovementRICE STREET BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $38,500 · Community ImprovementKAILUA VILLAGE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC: $22,665 · Community ImprovementKUMU KAHUA THEATRE INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementNORTH KOHALA COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $15,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $10,500 · Community ImprovementPOLYNESIAN FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsMAUKA TO MAKAI MAKAHA FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · Recreation & SportsKAIKEHA INC: $32,500 · Recreation & SportsMAUI CANOE CLUB: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsANAINA HOU COMMUNITY PARK: $29,500 · Recreation & SportsHAWAII GAY FLAG FOOTBALL LEAGUE INC: $17,500 · Recreation & SportsKAUAI RODEO & ROPING CLUB: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsLANIKAI ATHLETIC CLUB: $15,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$1,899,246Other$1,756,414Education$754,322Food & Nutrition$650,000Philanthropy$593,500Community Improvement$367,150Recreation & Sports$299,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE IRONMAN FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetHAWAII AG AND CULINARY ALLIANCE: $470,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: $217,900 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE MERRIE MONARCH FESTIVAL: $200,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetCHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHISTORIC WAIMEA THEATER AND CULTURAL ARTS CENTER: $186,600 over 2y, 16% of budgetALOHA WEEK HAWAII INC DBA ALOHA FESTIVALS: $177,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetKONA COFFEE CULTURAL FESTIVAL: $150,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetLOKAHI PACIFIC: $147,485 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetKALIHI-PALAMA CULTURE & ARTS SOCIETY INC: $128,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetHUI NO'EAU: $125,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetODKF SUPPORT INC: $120,000 over 2y, 69% of budgetMOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC: $116,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetHanapepe Economic Alliance Inc: $113,000 over 2y, 59% of budgetHawaii Performing Arts Festival Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetHONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetPOIPU BEACH FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetYouth in Motion: $103,322 over 2y, 66% of budgetKAIOPUA CANOE CLUB: $101,650 over 2y, 14% of budgetPOLYNESIAN FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME: $100,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $95,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE KAUAI MARATHON: $93,500 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetKANU HAWAII: $90,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetHAWAII UNITED OKINAWA ASSOCIATION: $75,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetACCESSURF HAWAII INC: $73,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetLANA'I CULTURE & HERITAGE CENTER: $69,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetTHE GARDEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL: $68,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetNaalehu Theatre: $52,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetKAHULI LEO LEA: $50,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetHAWAII ISLAND PACIFIC & ASIA CULTURAL CELEBRATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetHANA ARTS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetHAWAII ACADEMY OF RECORDING ARTS: $50,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetARTS EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN GROUP: $50,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetHAWAII KOREAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetNATIVE HAWAIIAN HOSPITALITY ASSOC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetHAWAI'I LGBT LEGACY FOUNDATION: $49,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetKAUAI ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD: $43,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetRICE STREET BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $38,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetVOLCANO ART CENTER: $37,346 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHAWAII BICYCLING LEAGUE: $35,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetKUMANO I KE ALA O MAKAWELI: $35,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetKAIKEHA INC: $32,500 over 2y, 43% of budgetMaui Pops Orchestra Inc: $31,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetKALA FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHAWAII AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHAWAIIAN OUTRIGGER CANOE VOYAGING SOCIETY: $30,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBISHOP MUSEUM: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Council for Native Ha…Hawaii Council for Hu…Atherton Family Found…Kosasa FoundationJ Watumull FundFirst Hawaiian Bank F…Cooke Foundation Limi…Tradewind Group Found…Central Pacific Bank …Trustees of the Estat…Fred Baldwin Memorial…The Harry and Jeanett…
Council for Native Hawaiian AdvancementHI106× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement · Hawaii Council for Humanities · Atherton Family Foundation · Kosasa Foundation · J Watumull Fund · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · Tradewind Group Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc

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 Visitors and Convention Bureau funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%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
    1get no government money at all
    30report 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.

    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 92 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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