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Hmsa Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Education$4.8MHealth$1.3MHuman Services$1.2MEmployment$600kFood & Nutrition$513kCommunity Improvement$458kYouth Development$436kArts & Culture$420kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $750k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.2M
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$1,200,000
FIVE MOUNTAINS HAWAII$100,000
KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES$100,000
WAIMANALO HEALTH CENTER$100,000
MA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM$75,000
KUALOA HEEIA ECUMENICAL YOUTH PROJECT$75,000
THE FOOD BASKET INC$75,000
HAWAIIAN COMMUNITY ASSETS INC$65,000
KUMANO I KE ALA$60,000
WE ARE OCEANIA (FORMERLY PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION)$50,000
MOLOKAI CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION PATHWAYS$50,000
ISLAND OF HAWAII YMCA$20,000
FRIENDS OF HALE 'OLUEA CLUBHOUSE$20,000
SPILL THE TEA CAFE$20,000
HAWAII ISLAND HIVAIDS FOUNDATION DBA KUMUKAHI HEALTH WELLNESS$20,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $699k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%KUKULU KUMUHANA O ANAHOLA: $12k → 9%MA'I MOVEMENT HAWAI'I: $15k → 8%FRIENDS OF HALE 'OLUEA CLUBHOUSE: $20k → 15%SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER HAWAII: $15k → 9%WE ARE OCEANIA: $70k → 9%KALAUOKEKAHULI: $15k → 9%WE ARE OCEANIA: $50k → 9%WE ARE OCEANIA: $38k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $15k → 9%NURTURE CULTIVATE INC: $11k → 9%EFFECTIVE PLANNING INNOVATIVE COMMUNICATION INC: $8k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $4k → 9%KUALOA HEEIA ECUMENICAL YOUTH PROJECT: $75k → 9%KUALOA HEEIA ECUMENICAL YOUTH PROJECT: $75k → 9%KUALOA HEEIA ECUMENICAL YOUTH PROJECT: $75k → 9%KUALOA HEEIA ECUMENICAL YOUTH PROJECT: $75k → 9%KUALOA HEEIA ECUMENICAL YOUTH PROJECT: $75k → 9%KUALOA HEEIA ECUMENICAL YOUTH PROJECT: $20k → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $12k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $10k → 9%HAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.4M · 18 repeat orgs$786k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +94% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
44

Total granted

$9.4M
$618k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+26%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k 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
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +64%
  • WC
    WAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $600k · revenue +121%
  • KK
    KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $520k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FOOD BASKET INC
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • TK
    THE KOHALA CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -31%
  • HR
    HANA RETREATgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +117%
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
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
3
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
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4
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
5
Hiikua a Hiialo Cultural Foundation
Arts & Culture
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
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
8
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
9
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
10
Papahana Kuaola

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,…

Environment
11
Kahea the Hawaiian Environmental Alliance

Kahea is a community-based organization working to improve the quality of life for hawai`i's people and future generations through the revitalization and protection of hawai`i's unique natural and cultural resources. kahea advocates for…

Environment
12
Hoomau Ke Ola

Ho`omau ke ola provides comprehensive rehabilitation services including residential and outpatient care, treatment, and counseling to persons recovering from problems related to persons with mental and substance abuse disorders. ho`omau ke…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners in Development Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Spill the Tea Cafe. 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

64 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. 64 of the 72 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
46/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $4,800,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION+2 more: $30,000 · EducationKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $520,000 · HealthKOKUA KALIHI VALLE…FIVE MOUNTAINS HAWAII INC: $520,000 · HealthFIVE MOUNTAINS HAW…WAIMANALO HEALTH CENTER: $520,000 · HealthWAIMANALO HEALTH C…+9 more: $133,000 · Health+9 moreKUALOA-HEEIA ECUMENICAL YOUTH PROJECT: $395,000 · Human ServicesWE ARE OCEANIA: $157,500 · Human Services+13 more: $154,016 · Human ServicesWAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $600,000 · EmploymentKUMANO I KE ALA O MAKAWELI: $320,000 · Arts & CultureFAMILY VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT INST DBA IVAT: $30,000 · Arts & CultureKE KULA NUI O WAIMANALO: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSURFRIDER SPIRIT SESSIONS: $15,000 · Arts & CultureHOOKUAAINA: $15,000 · Arts & CultureHOAKA MANA: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM: $395,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE FOOD BASKET INC: $365,000 · Food & NutritionALOHA HARVEST: $15,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD BASKET INC: $75,000 · OtherTHE FOOD BASK…WE ARE OCEANIA (FORMERLY PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION): $50,000 · OtherHAWAIIAN COMMUNITY ASSETS INC: $345,000 · OtherHAWAIIAN COMM…MOLOKAI CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION PATH: $270,000 · OtherMOLOKAI CHILD…PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $82,500 · OtherPARTNERS IN D…HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Other+25 more: $346,688 · Other+25 more
Education$4,830,000Health$1,693,000Human Services$706,516Employment$600,000Arts & Culture$435,000Youth Development$395,000Food & Nutrition$380,000Other$1,219,188

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $4,800,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetWAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $600,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $520,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFIVE MOUNTAINS HAWAII INC: $520,000 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetWAIMANALO HEALTH CENTER: $520,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM: $395,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetKUALOA-HEEIA ECUMENICAL YOUTH PROJECT: $395,000 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetTHE FOOD BASKET INC: $365,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHAWAIIAN COMMUNITY ASSETS INC: $345,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetKUMANO I KE ALA O MAKAWELI: $320,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetMOLOKAI CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION PATH: $270,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetWE ARE OCEANIA: $157,500 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $82,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTHY BABIES COALITION OF HAWAII: $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFAMILY VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT INST DBA IVAT: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetKE KULA NUI O WAIMANALO: $30,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetTHE KOHALA CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLANAI COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHANA RETREAT: $20,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF OAHU: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSPILL THE TEA CAFE: $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetISLAND OF HAWAI'I YMCA: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE: $17,630 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSURFRIDER SPIRIT SESSIONS: $15,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetHAWAII LITERACY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHOOKUAAINA: $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetKA'ALA FARM INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWAIPA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetQUEENS UNIVERSITY MEDICAL GROUP: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHABILITAT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER HAWAII: $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII HEALTH & HARM REDUCTION CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOAKA MANA: $15,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetALOHA HARVEST: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAI MOVEMENT HAWAII INC: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWAIANAE COAST COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $13,058 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OAHU: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKUKULU KUMUHANA O ANAHOLA: $11,850 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU: $10,441 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOIWAI FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetNA WAHINE PAANI O PUNAHOU: $10,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetAHA KANE - FOUNDATION FOR THE AD- VANCEMENT OF NATIVE HAWAIIAN MALES: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% 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.

Trustees of the Estat…Atherton Family Found…The Harry and Jeanett…Aloha United Way IncBank of Hawaii Charit…Kaiser Foundation Hea…Kosasa FoundationStupski FoundationCentral Pacific Bank …Cooke Foundation Limi…Friends of Hawaii Cha…J Watumull Fund
Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha SchoolsHI62.5× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Atherton Family Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Aloha United Way Inc · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc · Kosasa Foundation · Stupski Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc · J Watumull Fund

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 Hmsa Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hmsa Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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
    20report 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 Hmsa Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hmsa 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 72 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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