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Hiland Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$475k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$855kEducation$345kPublic Safety & Disaster$205kPhilanthropy$100kHealth$90kFood & Nutrition$60kReligion$20kEnvironment$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $400k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER$100,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON$100,000
HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO$50,000
HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION$50,000
IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE$25,000
Balboa Yacht Club Maritime Sciences and$20,000
Waimea Hawaiian Homesteaders$20,000
MAUI COMMUNITY THEATRE$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Balboa Yacht Club Maritime Sciences and: $20k → 10%CATALINA ISLAND MUSEUM FOR EXHIBIT TITANIC: $30k → 14%PROARTS PLAYHOUSE MAUI: $25k → 9%SALVATION ARMY: $5k → 9%Waimea Hawaiian Homesteaders: $20k → 15%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION: $40k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $100k → 15%COAST GUARD FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST: $50k → 9%A CUP OF COLD WATER MINISTRIES: $10k → 15%IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE: $30k → 10%PROARTS PLAYHOUSE MAUI: $20k → 9%HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $50k → 9%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $20k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $100k → 15%COAST GUARD FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE: $25k → 10%SAINT THERESA CHURCH: $10k → 9%HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $50k → 15%IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE: $25k → 10%MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $200k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $40k → 15%IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE: $15k → 10%MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $100k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $40k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $35k → 15%IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE: $15k → 10%MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $75k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $50k → 9%IOLANI SCHOOL: $10k → 9%MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $50k → 9%EDDIE AIKAU FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%HAWAII FOUNDATION OF MAUI: $20k → 9%MAUI UNITED WAY: $100k → 9%MAUI FOOD BANK: $20k → 9%MAUI FOOD BANK INC: $20k → 9%MAUI COMMUNITY THEATRE: $10k → 9%MAUI COMMUNITY THEATRE: $10k → 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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 9 repeat orgs$470k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
13

Total granted

$1.3M
$330k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+16%

Still filing today

56%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHealthFood & NutritionPublic BenefitOther
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

  • MA
    MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER
    5× · 2020–2025 · $475k · revenue +20%
  • HO
    Hui O Waa Kaulua
    3× · 2020–2023 · $65k · revenue +470%
  • CG
    COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • MU
    MAUI UNITED WAYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +188%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +2%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue +5%
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
Aloha Performing Arts Company

The mission of the aloha theatre is to enrich the lives of hawaii residents and visitors by providing quality live theatre, performing arts education, and a venue for artistic expression.

Arts & Culture
2
Kakoo Oiwi

The mission of kakoooiwi is to advance the cultural, spiritual and traditional practices of the native hawaiian.

Community Improvement
3
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;…

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4
Pacific Islanders in Communications

The mission of pacific islanders in communications (pic) is to support, advance, and develop pacific island media content and talent that enhances public recognition of and appreciation for pacific islander history, culture and society.

Unclassified
5
Lai Hauola

To preserve the immediate and long-term health and wellbeing of lahaina's diverse communities and precious natural resources.

Food & Nutrition
6
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
7
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

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

Human Services
8
The Friends of Iolani Palace

To preserve, restore, interpret, share, and celebrate the unique cultural, historical, and spiritual qualities of `iolani palace and its grounds for the benefit of native hawaiians, the people of hawai`i, and the world.

—
9
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
10
Hawaii Community Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Uhiwai O Haleakala

The mission of the corporation shall be to work with partners to protect and restore native ecosystems and watersheds, to improve the quality and quantity of freshwater resources to perpetuate hawaiian cultural resources and practices, to…

Environment
12
The People's Fund

Hawai`i people`s fund supports, funds, and amplifies the work of hawai`i- based grassroots organizations challenging systems of oppression.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maui United Way; the most unlike its peers is Cup of Cold Water Ministries. 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

16 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. 16 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $325,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OREGONAMERICAN RED CROSS: $165,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSIRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE: $95,000 · OtherIRVINE BARCLAY THEATREHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $50,000 · OtherHAWAII PUBLIC RADIOPROARTS PLAYHOUSE MAUI: $45,000 · OtherPROARTS PLAYHOUSE MAUICATALINA ISLAND MUSEUM FOR EXHIBIT TITANIC: $30,000 · Other+6 more: $85,000 · Other+6 moreMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $475,000 · Arts & CultureMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTERHui O Waa Kaulua: $65,000 · Arts & CultureHui O Waa KauluaHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII: $50,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA …+2 more: $35,000 · Arts & Culture+2 moreMAUI UNITED WAY: $100,000 · PhilanthropyEDDIE AIKAU FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY: $50,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $40,000 · HealthCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · Public BenefitMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $40,000 · Food & NutritionMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $20,000 · InternationalUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Education'IOLANI SCHOOL: $10,000 · Education
Other$795,000Arts & Culture$625,000Philanthropy$110,000Health$90,000Public Benefit$40,000Food & Nutrition$40,000International$20,000Education$20,000

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 budgetMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $475,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY: $100,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetHui O Waa Kaulua: $65,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI COMMUNITY THEATRE: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE OPERATING CO: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEDDIE AIKAU FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget'IOLANI SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCUP OF COLD WATER MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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