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Hilo Rotary Club 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.

$86k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$86kCommunity Improvement$84kHuman Services$68kYouth Development$52kCrime & Legal$37kInternational$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kPhilanthropy$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $67k
$5,149
Median grant
3
States reached
$118k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROTARY CLUB OF ANAHEIM$25,000
FRIENDS OF THE HAWAII CHILDREN'S$16,814
HILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$15,284
ROTARY CLUB OF LAHAINA$10,352
Individual grant recipient$6,133
ROTARY FOUNDATION$5,149
ROTARY CLUB OF HILO$4,407
FRIENDS OF CHILDREN JUSTICE CENTER$1,530
NA LEO O HAWAII$1,000
HAWAII HOME FOR RECOVERY$500
HILO BAY ROTARY CLUB$80
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ROTARY CLUB OF ANAHEIM: $25k → 10%ROTARY CLUB OF LAHAINA: $10k → 9%OHANA WA'A LAULIMA: $6k → 9%SALVATION ARMY: $3k → 9%ROTARY CLUB OF HILO: $22k → 15%OHANA WA'A LAULIMA: $6k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%FRIENDS OF THE HAWAII CHILDREN'S: $17k → 15%ROTARY DISTRICT 5000 FOUNDATION: $31k → 9%HILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $15k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE HAWAII CHILDREN'S: $15k → 15%HILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $15k → 15%HILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $13k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE HAWAII CHILDREN'S: $13k → 15%HILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $11k → 15%EAST HAWAII CHILDREN'S JUSTICE: $11k → 15%HILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $11k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE HAWAII CHILDREN'S: $11k → 15%SUNAO WADA FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%EAST HAWAII CHILDREN'S JUSTICE: $9k → 15%HILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $9k → 15%HILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $9k → 15%EAST HAWAII CHILDREN'S JUSTICE: $9k → 15%THE ARC OF HILO: $6k → 15%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BIG ISLAND: $5k → 15%ROTARY CLUB OF HILO: $5k → 15%THE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%THE SALVATION ARMY: $5k → 15%HIROSHIMA MINAMI ROTARY: $5k → 15%SUCCESS FACTORY INC: $5k → 15%ROTARY CLUB OF SUVA EAST: $5k → 15%ROTARY CLUB OF HILO: $4k → 15%THE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $4k → 15%ROTARY CLUB OF HILO: $3k → 15%KUIKAHI MEDIATION CENTER: $3k → 15%ROTARY CLUB OF LAOTOKA: $3k → 15%THE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%ROTARY CLUB OF HILO: $2k → 15%THE ISLAND OF HAWAII YMCA: $2k → 15%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BIG ISLAND: $2k → 15%THE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%ROTARY CLUB OF HILO: $2k → 15%COUNTY OF HAWAII: $2k → 15%FRIENDS OF CHILDREN JUSTICE CENTER: $2k → 15%LAUPAHOEHOE COMMUNITY PUBLIC: $20k → 15%LAUPAHOEHOE COMMUNITY PUBLIC: $20k → 15%HUI KAKO'O O LAUPAHOEHOE: $2k → 15%ROTARY CLUB OF VOLCANO: $3k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$351k · 15 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
19

Total granted

$351k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+10%

Still filing today

40%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyArts & CultureCrime & LegalInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • HM
    HILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +129%
  • TA
    THE ARC OF HILO
    2× · 2022–2023 · $7k · revenue +74%
  • KM
    KUIKAHI MEDIATION CENTER INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $6k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • SW
    SUNAO WADA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF SUVA EAST
    one grant, 2021 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
2
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
3
Aloha Foundation
4
Hawaii Education Institute
5
The Ohana Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Hiikua a Hiialo Cultural Foundation
Arts & Culture
7
Hilo Rotary Club Foundation
8
Kalauokekahuli

Kalauokekahuli encourages the healthy growth of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander families by supporting and enhancing the well-being of birthing people, parents, and their infants with holistic, multi-generational, and…

Human Services
9
Kalihi-Palama Health Center (Hale Ho'ola Hou)

To provide quality, integrated health and social services to our community and all others in need of health care.

10
Hui O Hauula

Hui o Hau`ula is a 501c3 non-profit in the Ahupua'a of Hau`ula in the Ko`olauloa District on Oahu. We manage the Hau`ula Community Center at 54-010 Kukuna Road in Hau`ula, Hawaii 96717. Hui o Hau`ula created a Partnership Hub that includes…

Community Improvement
11
Ohana Foundation for Technical Development
Education
12
Hualalai Ohana Foundation

Scholarships and awards are granted to the hualalai community employees, their spouses, and their children. medical awards cover expenses incurred beyond medical insurance, and educational scholarships are for preschool through college,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hilo Medical Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Global Offsite Care. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE HAWAII CHILDREN'S — $55,756 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE HAWAII CHILDREN'SIndividual grant recipient — $40,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipientROTARY CLUB OF HILO — $39,637 · OtherROTARY CLUB OF HILOEAST HAWAII CHILDREN'S JUSTICE — $29,177 · OtherEAST HAWAII CHILDREN'S JUSTICEROTARY CLUB OF ANAHEIM — $25,000 · OtherROTARY CLUB OF ANAHEIMTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION — $14,612 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $12,391 · OtherROTARY CLUB OF LAHAINA — $10,352 · OtherSUNAO WADA FOUNDATION — $9,992 · Other+22 more — $62,242 · Other+22 moreHILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $83,403 · PhilanthropyHILO MEDICAL CENTER F…Rotary District 5000 Foundation — $37,183 · EducationRotary Dis…HUI KAKO'O O LAUPAHOEHOE — $3,200 · EducationHUI KAKO'O…UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $2,000 · EducationTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL — $5,149 · InternationalGLOBAL OFFSITE CARE — $2,000 · InternationalKUIKAHI MEDIATION CENTER INC — $6,000 · Crime & LegalTHE FOOD BASKET INC — $3,000 · Food & NutritionHawaii Rise Foundation — $1,000 · Food & NutritionNA LEO O HAWAII INC — $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$299,459Philanthropy$83,403Education$42,383International$7,149Crime & Legal$6,000Food & Nutrition$4,000Arts & Culture$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $83,403 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetRotary District 5000 Foundation — $37,183 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetTHE ARC OF HILO — $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKUIKAHI MEDIATION CENTER INC — $6,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL — $5,149 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUI KAKO'O O LAUPAHOEHOE — $3,200 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetTHE FOOD BASKET INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND OF HAWAI'I YMCA — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL OFFSITE CARE — $2,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetYWCA OF HAWAII ISLAND — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHawaii Rise Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNA LEO O HAWAII INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds HILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Rotary District 5000 Foundation
  • Who funds THE ARC OF HILO
  • Who funds KUIKAHI MEDIATION CENTER INC
  • Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds HUI KAKO'O O LAUPAHOEHOE
  • Who funds THE FOOD BASKET INC
  • Who funds ISLAND OF HAWAI'I YMCA
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GLOBAL OFFSITE CARE
  • Who funds YWCA OF HAWAII ISLAND
  • Who funds Hawaii Rise Foundation
  • Who funds NA LEO O HAWAII INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Hpm Building Supply FoundationHI15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hpm Building Supply Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Hilo Rotary Club Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Hilo Rotary Club Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hilo Rotary Club 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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