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Hui Huliau

Our mission is to strengthen our communities, make a positive impact on the lives we touch, and provide a brighter future for the native hawaiian people through education, economic opportunities, and the preservation of the hawaiian language and culture.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$709k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.

Community Improvement$1.2MHuman Services$640kRecreation & Sports$445kEducation$385kInternational$227kEnvironment$225kYouth Development$207kArts & Culture$196kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 23 grants below total $2,023,981 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,105,238 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $81,257 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $182k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $620k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.2M
$37,200
Median grant
3
States reached
$72M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUI HULIAU HOU - HH$708,781
ELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES$500,000
MAUKA TO MAKAI MAKAHA FOU$105,000
SEARIDER FOOTBALL BOOSTER$100,000
E ALA VOYAGING ACADEMY$100,000
THE HAWAII PACIFIC FOUNDA$65,000
WAIANAE HAWAIIAN CIVIC CL$50,000
MALAMA LEARNING CENTER$50,000
KA'ALA FARM INC$50,000
SEARIDER PRODUCTIONS - HH$50,000
WAIANAE PROTESTANT CHURCH$50,000
ST OF HAWAII DEPT OF ED$37,200
NANAKULI PERFORM ARTS CNT$30,000
NA KAMA KAI$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB HAWAII$20,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $510k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TAMPA HOMELESS OUTREACH INC: $10k → 12%ELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES: $500k → 9%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.

Which US states your grants reach

AK
PA
CA
VA
MD
TN
HI
OK
TX
FL

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 18 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
28

Total granted

$2.8M
$632k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+21%

Still filing today

78%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $540k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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

  • HH
    HUI HULIAU HOU
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue ×17 · 99% of their budget
  • SF
    SEARIDER FOOTBALL BOOSTERS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $155k · revenue +24% · 59% of their budget
  • KF
    KA'ALA FARM INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • AR
    Airbridge Releief
    one grant, 2023 · $221k · 80% of their budget
  • PO
    POHAI O KAMEHAMEHA
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENTgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +64%

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
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
2
Hawaii Maritime Center
—
3
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
4
Malama Kua Aina
Environment
5
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
6
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
7
Hiikua a Hiialo Cultural Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
Hawaii Education Institute
—
9
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
10
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
11
Hawaii Exemplary State Foundation
Community Improvement
12
Hawaii Pacific Model United Nations Incorporated
International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Na Kama Kai and the most unlike its peers is Airbridge Releief. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyNative Hawaiian Community D…Youth Development CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Food Pantries & AssistanceVeteran Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 14 years old; the field is 14. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%20%<5yr15%10%5–10yr18%35%10–20yr18%15%20–35yr12%8%35–55yr12%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%58%<5yr15%8%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr18%4%20–35yr12%5%35–55yr12%3%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 20% of your grantees by number, and just 58% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
13%
1,148/8,649

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.

04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 50 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
23/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HUI HULIAU HOU — $1,090,043 · Community ImprovementHUI HULIAU HOUNATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION — $43,500 · Community Improvement+2 more — $18,000 · Community ImprovementE ALA VOYAGING ACADEMY — $200,000 · OtherE ALA VOYAGING ACADEMYKA'ALA FARM INC — $150,000 · OtherKA'ALA FARM INCWAIANAE PROTESTANT CHURCH — $120,000 · OtherWAIANAE PROTESTANT CHURCHDEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION — $69,200 · OtherDEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONPOHAI O KAMEHAMEHA — $50,000 · OtherNANAKULI PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $45,000 · OtherNA KAMA KAI — $125,000 · OtherNA KAMA KAIThe Hawaii Pacific Foundation Inc — $105,000 · OtherThe Hawaii Pacific Foundation In…+20 more — $281,500 · Other+20 moreSEARIDER FOOTBALL BOOSTERS — $155,000 · EducationSEARIDER FOOTBA…Waianae Hawaiian Civic Club — $145,000 · EducationWaianae Hawaiia…MALAMA LEARNING CENTER — $100,000 · EducationMALAMA LEARNING…COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT — $50,000 · EducationCOUNCIL FOR NAT…KAPPA SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT FUND OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC — $21,800 · Education+6 more — $66,000 · Education+6 moreELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES — $500,000 · Human ServicesELEPAIO SOCIAL…+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesMAUKA TO MAKAI MAKAHA FOUNDATION INC — $225,000 · Recreation & SportsWESTSIDE STRIKING — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsAirbridge Releief — $220,500 · Public Safety & DisasterSEARIDER PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION — $125,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Philanthropy
Community Improvement$1,151,543Other$1,145,700Education$537,800Human Services$510,000Recreation & Sports$255,000Public Safety & Disaster$220,500Philanthropy$145,000

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 budgetHUI HULIAU HOU — $1,090,043 over 3y, 99% of budgetELEPAIO SOCIAL SERVICES — $500,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetMAUKA TO MAKAI MAKAHA FOUNDATION INC — $225,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetAirbridge Releief — $220,500 over 1y, 80% of budgetSEARIDER FOOTBALL BOOSTERS — $155,000 over 2y, 59% of budgetKA'ALA FARM INC — $150,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetWaianae Hawaiian Civic Club — $145,000 over 3y, 75% of budgetNA KAMA KAI — $125,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetSEARIDER PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetThe Hawaii Pacific Foundation Inc — $105,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMALAMA LEARNING CENTER — $100,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION — $43,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWESTSIDE STRIKING — $30,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation — $16,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNATIVE HAWAIIAN ORGANIZATIONS ASSOC — $12,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetWarriors Ethos Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetROLLINS COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHawaii Farmers Union Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LEEWARD COAST PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLIBERTY MANOR FOR VETERANS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHUI MAULI OLA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TAMPA BAY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAIKO ABIGAIL SALE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetMAUI NUI RESILIENCY HUI — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetKids R First — $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MAUI INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget'OLELO COMMUNITY TELEVISION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVE HAWAIIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $5,500 over 1y, 12% 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.

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.

Trustees of the Estat…Aloha United Way IncThe Red Cabin Foundat…Stupski FoundationThe Harry and Jeanett…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha SchoolsHI23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Aloha United Way Inc · The Red Cabin Foundation Trust · Stupski Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Hui Huliau 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation — 2% of income from government
  • Rollins College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report 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

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 Hui Huliau?

Find your warmest path to Hui Huliau 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 50 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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