· Public charity
Historic Hawai'I Foundation
To preserve and encourage the preservation of historic buildings, objects, and sites relating to the history of hawaii; to promote an awareness of and respect for all that is historically significant and architecturally distinctive in our state; and through these efforts, to keep alive and intact for the enrichment of present and future…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k14 grants · $335k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $281k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE CHILDREN LLC | $70,000 |
| THE KOHALA CENTER INC | $56,250 |
| BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 759 HILO | $55,000 |
| KUHAU INC SIG ZANE DESIGNS | $50,000 |
| PAPAE O HULEIA | $50,000 |
| MALAMA HULEIA | $40,000 |
| MALAMA LOKO EA FOUNDATION | $37,500 |
| HUI MALAMA O KANEIOLOUMA | $37,500 |
| FOUNDATION FOR MARYKNOLL SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| HAWAII AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER | $25,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL | $25,000 |
| HONPA HONGWANJI HAWAI'I BETSUIN | $25,000 |
| NORTH KOHALA COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER | $25,000 |
| AINA MOMONA | $25,000 |
| KAULUAKALANA | $22,650 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 22% of Historic Hawai'I Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in HI; read by stated purpose it is 76% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PHPEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM2× · 2017–2020 · $133k · revenue +21%
- NKNORTH KOHALA COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER3× · 2018–2024 · $110k · revenue +3%
- TFTHE FRIENDS OF THE PALACE THEATER2× · 2020–2021 · $103k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- HMHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +6%
- MCMOKUAIKAUA CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $75k
- HCHAWAII CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $70k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance the cultural and natural landscape of the kiholo bay area through collaborative management and active community stewardship.
For the benefit and inspiration of ALL, Na Hoa Aloha o ka Pu'uhonua o Honaunau participates with NPS and other partners to protect and preserve cultural and natural resources, guided by the aacestral knowledge of South Kona.
Papahana kuaola's mission is to create quality educational programs focused on environmental restoration and economic sustainability fully integrated with hawaiian knowledge in order to exemplify a lifestyle respectful of kanaka, `aina,…
The mission is to protect and preserve the natural and cultural resources of the hana moku and the customary and traditional practices of native hawaiians of the region; to preserve and manage the area's natural, cultural, scenic, historic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kauluakalana and the most unlike its peers is Pacific Tsunami Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 57 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 HANA BUDDHIST TEMPLE PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE KOHALA CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTH KOHALA COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE PALACE THEATER ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN MISSION CHILDREN'S SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Pacific Tsunami Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 759 HILO ↗
- Who funds MALAMA HULEIA ↗
- Who funds PAEPAE O HE'EIA ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR MARYKNOLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KAULUAKALANA ↗
- Who funds DAUGHTERS OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds EAST HAWAII CULTURAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AINA MOMONA ↗
- Who funds HAWAII THEATRE CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OAHU ↗
- Who funds Hale Puna ↗
- Who funds KONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Hawaii Council for Humanities · Atherton Family Foundation · Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Cooke Foundation Limited · Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement · Deupree Family Foundation · Kosasa Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn
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 Historic Hawai'I 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.
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.