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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.

$20k
Granted FY2018
8
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% 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
02FY2018 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$476k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Hawai'i Foundation$7,481
Punahou School$4,252
Reece Toyama Foundation$2,354
Residential Youth Services & Empowerment$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,394
Hawaii Youth Symphony Association$1,000
Hope Services Hawaii Inc$750
Kenneth and Diane Matsuura Foundation$500
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Punahou School: $4k → 9%Hope Services Hawaii Inc: $750 → 15%Punahou School: $2k → 9%Punahou School: $872 → 9%University of Hawai'i Foundation: $7k → 9%Residential Youth Services & Empowerment: $2k → 9%Reece Toyama Foundation: $2k → 9%Coalition for A Drug-Free Hawaii: $500 → 9%Island Breeze Foundation: $3k → 9%Kenneth and Diane Matsuura Foundation: $500 → 9%Chaminade University of Honolulu: $500 → 9%Iolani School: $3k → 9%Hawaii Youth Symphony Association: $1k → 9%Kenneth and Diane Matsuura Foundation: $3k → 9%Core Volleyball Hawaii: $1k → 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 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
Hawaii Education Institute
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2
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
3
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
4
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
5
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
6
Hawaii Maritime Center
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7
Hawaii Association of Independent Schools

The hawai'i association of independent schools (hais) advocates on behalf of independent education in hawaii, provides services that strengthen individual schools and engages them to achieve educational quality and excellence for all…

Education
8
Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Society Inc

In 1972, kumu hula george lanakilakekiahiali`i na`ope and kahu wendell silva created our organization to preserve hawaiian culture through dance. from that idea they formed the kalihi-palama culture & arts society, inc. (kpcas) to provide…

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9
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
10
Honolulu Museum of Art

To create relevant and transformative experiences through the study, preservation, presentation and creation of art.

Arts & Culture
11
Hawaii Pacific Model United Nations Incorporated
International
12
Lanikuhonua Cultural Institute
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Youth Symphony Association; the most unlike its peers is The Kenneth and Diane Matsuura Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $7,481 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATIONPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $6,807 · EducationPUNAHOU SCHOOL'IOLANI SCHOOL: $2,500 · Education'IOLANI SCHOOL+1 more: $500 · EducationIsland Breeze Foundation: $2,500 · OtherIsland Breeze FoundationIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…Individual grant recipient: $1,394 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…HOPE SERVICES HAWAII INC: $750 · OtherHOPE SERVICES HAWAII INCCoalition for a Drug-Free Hawaii: $500 · OtherCoalition for a Drug-Fre…THE KENNETH AND DIANE MATSUURA FOUNDATION: $3,900 · PhilanthropyTHE KENNETH A…REECE TOYAMA FOUNDATION: $2,354 · Youth DevelopmentRESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterHAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$17,288Other$7,144Philanthropy$3,900Youth Development$2,354Housing & Shelter$2,000Arts & Culture$1,000

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 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
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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    1report 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.
    04Through Plinth

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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.

    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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