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Hemic Foundation

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.

$149k
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$201kYouth Development$113kFood & Nutrition$61kEducation$57kHuman Services$53kPhilanthropy$51kEmployment$23kArts & Culture$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k43 grants · $89k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
$1,350
Median grant
8
States reached
$103k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII$40,000
KIDS' CHANCE OF HAWAI'I$10,000
ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC$10,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII INC$7,000
ALOHA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF$5,500
FRIENDS OF HAWAII CHARITIES INC$5,236
HALE KIPA INC$5,000
HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS$5,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$5,000
WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER$4,500
GIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII$4,500
YWCA OF OAHU$4,000
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF HAWAII INC$4,000
MANOA VALLEY THEATRE$3,500
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER$3,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 13%ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN: $325 → 13%WOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $510 → 9%NAVIAN HAWAII: $2k → 9%LANAKILA PACIFIC: $1k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $826 → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $581 → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $300 → 9%WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 9%WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $4k → 9%HALE KIPA INC: $5k → 9%WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 9%HALE KIPA INC: $5k → 9%WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 9%WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 9%HALE KIPA INC: $1k → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $4k → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $4k → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $3k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $3k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $3k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $3k → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $3k → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $3k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
NV
IA
CA
NE
MO
VA
TN
NC
DC
HI
GA
TX
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$497k · 40 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
38

Total granted

$497k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+13%

Still filing today

68%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $72k · revenue +19%
  • HM
    HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +38%
  • GI
    GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF HAWAII INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • AC
    ALOHA COUNCIL BOYS SCOUTS OF
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
  • PS
    PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -60%
  • KF
    KUAKINI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue -61%
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
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
2
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
3
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
4
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
5
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

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

Human Services
6
Hui Pohala

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…

Health
7
Kukio Hoomana Fund

The kuki'o ho'omana fund seeks to uplift and enrich our hawai'i island community through intentional investments in curated local organizations focusing on youth empowerment, affordable housing, environmental preservation, cultural…

Philanthropy
8
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
9
Hawaii Education Institute
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10
Pali Momi Foundation

The mission of pali momi foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.

Health
11
Hui Malama I Ke Ala Ulili

To re-establish the systems that sustain our community through educational initiatives and land-based practices that cultivate abundance, regenerate responsibilities, and promote collective health and well being.

Community Improvement
12
Waikiki Health

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

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Hawaii; the most unlike its peers is Finance Factors Foundation. 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

72 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. 72 of the 101 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/72
Grantees still filing
40/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII INC: $72,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII INCARTHRITIS FOUNDATION OF HAWAII: $56,700 · OtherARTHRITIS FOUNDATION OF HAWAIIKIDS CHANCE OF HAWAII: $40,000 · OtherKIDS CHANCE OF HAWAIIMANOA VALLEY THEATRE: $12,500 · OtherDOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER: $16,000 · Other+59 more: $109,134 · Other+59 moreMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII: $40,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION …American Heart Association Inc: $20,150 · HealthAmerican Heart Associat…ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION IN…PARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER: $12,000 · HealthPARENTS AND CHILDREN TO…MARCH OF DIMES INC: $11,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INCThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $6,430 · HealthHABILITAT INC: $6,000 · HealthKapi'olani Health Foundation: $5,000 · Health+7 more: $11,375 · Health+7 moreYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OAHU: $17,200 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOME…WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $12,500 · Human ServicesWAIKIKI CO…HALE KIPA INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesHALE KIPA …YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU: $9,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'…MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $3,000 · Human Services+6 more: $6,542 · Human Services+6 moreHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $45,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII MEA…HAWAII FOODBANK INC: $9,700 · Food & NutritionHAWAII FOO…+2 more: $3,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $26,500 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF HAWAII CHARITIES INC: $5,236 · PhilanthropyFINANCE FACTORS FOUNDATION: $4,350 · Philanthropy+1 more: $103 · PhilanthropyGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF HAWAII INC: $22,663 · EmploymentGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII: $18,540 · Youth Development+1 more: $50 · Youth Development
Other$306,334Health$131,955Human Services$59,242Food & Nutrition$57,700Philanthropy$36,189Employment$22,663Youth Development$18,590

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 budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII INC: $72,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII: $40,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $26,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF HAWAII INC: $22,663 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $20,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII: $18,540 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OAHU: $17,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER: $16,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $12,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHALE KIPA INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $9,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRE-USE HAWAII: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $6,430 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABILITAT INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF HAWAII CHARITIES INC: $5,236 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKapi'olani Health Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCrime Stoppers Honolulu Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetFINANCE FACTORS FOUNDATION: $4,350 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKUAKINI FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEO Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP FOR THE HANDICAPPED: $3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $2,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII HOTEL INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII CHILDREN'S ACTION NETWORK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF HAWAII INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HANDS HAWAII: $1,707 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE HAWAII INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOD BASKET INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA OF HAWAII ISLAND: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONOLULU HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEABURY HALL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREAD TO ME INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANAKILA PACIFIC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY HUI HAWAII: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Bank of Hawaii Charit…Atherton Family Found…First Insurance Compa…Tradewind Group Found…J Watumull FundCentral Pacific Bank …Aloha United Way IncThe Harry and Jeanett…First Hawaiian Bank F…Finance Factors Found…Friends of Hawaii Cha…McInerny Foundation--
Bank of Hawaii Charitable FdnHI64.7× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Atherton Family Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Finance Factors Foundation · Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc · McInerny 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hemic Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hemic Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    16report 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Hemic Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hemic Foundation 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 101 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-PF 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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