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Ho'Ea - the Foundation

The specific purpose of Ho'ea - The Foundation is to provide grants to selected charitable, religious, and educational organizations that have demonstrated dedication and excellence in their respective mission. As a policy of the Foundation, all recipient organizations must be organized as either a nonprofit foundation or a corporation…

$20k
Granted FY2018
8
Grants FY2018
8
Organizations funded FY2018
75%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$7,481
Organizations funded a year
7 to 8
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
1
Total assets, FY2018
$476k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 75% of the organizations Ho'Ea - the Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20188$20k75%
FY20177$14kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Education$17kPhilanthropy$6kHousing & Shelter$3kYouth Development$2kArts & Culture$1kHealth$500Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Hawaii Foundation$7,48110%
Punahou School$6,80720%
The Kenneth and Diane Matsuura Foundation$3,90020%
'Iolani School$2,50010%
Reece Toyama Foundation$2,35412%
Residential Youth Services & Empowerment$2,00010%
Hawaii Youth Symphony Association$1,00010%
Hope Services Hawaii Inc$75010%
Coalition for a Drug-Free Hawaii$50010%
Chaminade University of Honolulu$50010%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ho'Ea - the Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Hawaii Foundation: $7,481 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPunahou School: $6,807 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kenneth and Diane Matsuura Foundation: $3,900 over 2y, 0.5% of budget'Iolani School: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReece Toyama Foundation: $2,354 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetResidential Youth Services & Empowerment: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHawaii Youth Symphony Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHope Services Hawaii Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoalition for a Drug-Free Hawaii: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChaminade University of Honolulu: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Aloha United Way IncJ Watumull FundAtherton Family Found…The Harry and Jeanett…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Aloha United Way IncHI15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aloha United Way Inc · J Watumull Fund · Atherton Family Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · 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.

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How do I get to Ho'Ea - the Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ho'Ea - the 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.

About Ho'Ea - the Foundation

How much does Ho'Ea - the Foundation give?
Ho'Ea - the Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $19,731 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Ho'Ea - the Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Education (51%), Philanthropy (19%), Housing & Shelter (8%).
Who are Ho'Ea - the Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: University of Hawaii Foundation ($7k), Punahou School ($7k), The Kenneth and Diane Matsuura Foundation ($4k).
Does Ho'Ea - the Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ho'Ea - the Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aloha United Way Inc, J Watumull Fund, Atherton Family Foundation.
Where is Ho'Ea - the Foundation based?
Ho'Ea - the Foundation is based in HI.

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 13 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $13k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2018, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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