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Johnson Ohana Foundation

To promote environmental awareness, environmental preservation and art and music programs for children throughout the world.

$600k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$75k
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 FY2018–2024.

Environment$1.2MArts & Culture$338kEducation$132kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kInternational$67kFood & Nutrition$58kPhilanthropy$50kHealth$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 21 grants below total $300,526 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $599,785 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $299,259 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 $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $196k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DONORSCHOOSEORG$75,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$20,000
HONOLULU THEATER FOR YOUTH$20,000
SUSTAINABLE COASTLINES HAWAII$15,000
SURFRIDER FOUNDATION$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$15,000
CAF AMERICA$10,526
HAWAII PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE$10,000
MALAMA KAUAI$10,000
EXPLORE ECOLOGY$10,000
HI'IPAKA LLC$10,000
UPSTREAM$10,000
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM$10,000
HOA'AINA O MAKAHA$10,000
ALGALITA MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION$10,000
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 (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATIONAL FARM TO SCHOOL NETWORKTIDES CENTER: $10k → 10%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

ME
NY
OR
CA
VA
AZ
DC
HI
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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of Johnson Ohana 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.

Johnson Ohana Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.6% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 26 repeat orgs$290k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
24

Total granted

$1.5M
$290k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+38%

Still filing today

88%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    8× · 2017–2024 · $350k · revenue +24%
  • AM
    ALGALITA MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $96k · revenue +9%
  • TS
    THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $92k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • HF
    Hawaii Farmers Union Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -17%
  • TK
    THE KOHALA CENTER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue -18%
  • HO
    Hui O Waa Kauluagraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +523%

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
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
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2
Ocean Alliance Project

Protecting and promoting the marine biodiversity of Hawai'i through coral restoration, ecological monitoring, regenerative tourism, and cultural integration

Science & Tech
3
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
4
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
5
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
6
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
7
Ea Ecoversity

Ea ecoversity's mission is to provide culturally-driven learning, training, credentialing, and other long-term societal benefits to ka lahui hawai'i.

Education
8
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
9
Malama Kua Aina
Environment
10
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
11
Hoomahua Foundation

To support education primarily in the Waianae community on the island of Oahu. Support may included, but not be limited to, professional development, student support services, and community engagement. As educators on the Waianae coast,…

Education
12
Hui Aloha Kiholo

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.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Art Explorium. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%14%5–10yr20%27%10–20yr18%34%20–35yr11%14%35–55yr12%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%7%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr18%56%20–35yr11%9%35–55yr12%14%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/66
the rest of the field
14%
12,901/92,975

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.

05the grantee network

61 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
48/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $91,500 · EnvironmentTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATIONEXPLORE ECOLOGY — $85,000 · EnvironmentEXPLORE ECOLOGYKOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION — $75,000 · EnvironmentKOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATIONSUSTAINABLE COASTLINES HAWAI'I — $60,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE COASTLINES HAWA…HAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE — $35,000 · EnvironmentHAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC…Hi'ipaka LLC — $30,000 · EnvironmentHi'ipaka LLCREVERB INC — $27,500 · EnvironmentREVERB INCTHE KOHALA CENTER — $25,000 · EnvironmentThe Ocean Foundation — $21,000 · EnvironmentMALAMA KAUAI — $20,000 · Environment+1 more — $15,000 · EnvironmentDONORSCHOOSEORG — $350,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORGHawaii Farmers Union Foundation — $25,000 · EducationHawaii Farmers Union Fou…UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOU…MANA MAOLI — $15,000 · Education+1 more — $7,160 · EducationREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — $147,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF …HAWAII ARTS ALLIANCE — $37,500 · OtherHAWAII ARTS ALLIANCEHOA AINA O MAKAHA — $37,500 · OtherHOA AINA O MAKAHAUPSTREAM — $30,000 · OtherUPSTREAMSANTA BARBARA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT — $22,500 · OtherMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $57,500 · OtherMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDAT…FARMLINK PROJECT — $30,000 · OtherFARMLINK PROJECTHAWAII PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE — $20,000 · Other+14 more — $127,160 · Other+14 moreCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $176,026 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AI…HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $40,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMU…FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyHONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH — $60,000 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU T…Kealakai Center For Pacific String Traditions — $40,000 · Arts & CultureKealakai C…HAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $30,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII YOU…Hui O Waa Kaulua — $25,000 · Arts & CultureHui O Waa …MUSIC WILL INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC WILL…NATIVE RENEWABLES INC — $12,000 · Arts & CultureNATIVE REN…ALGALITA MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION — $95,754 · Science & TechCOMMON GROUND COLLECTIVE — $20,000 · Food & NutritionMUSICALLY FED — $12,085 · Food & NutritionMAUI HUB — $10,000 · Food & NutritionGROW SOME GOOD — $10,000 · Food & NutritionFOODCORPS INC — $5,500 · Food & Nutrition
Environment$485,000Education$422,160Other$509,160Philanthropy$226,026Arts & Culture$192,000Science & Tech$95,754Food & Nutrition$57,585

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $350,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $176,026 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALGALITA MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION — $95,754 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $91,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetEXPLORE ECOLOGY — $85,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetKOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetHONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH — $60,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSUSTAINABLE COASTLINES HAWAI'I — $60,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $57,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKealakai Center For Pacific String Traditions — $40,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetHAWAII ARTS ALLIANCE — $37,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetHOA AINA O MAKAHA — $37,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetHAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE — $35,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetHAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFARMLINK PROJECT — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHi'ipaka LLC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetREVERB INC — $27,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHawaii Farmers Union Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE KOHALA CENTER — $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHui O Waa Kaulua — $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC WILL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Ocean Foundation — $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON GROUND COLLECTIVE — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMALAMA KAUAI — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVISION TO LEARN — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANA MAOLI — $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEARTHPERCENT FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetART EXPLORIUM — $14,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetMUSICALLY FED — $12,085 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetNATIVE RENEWABLES INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRISE AND SHINE ART — $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetMAUI HUB — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMAUI HUI MALAMA — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCollaborative Support Services Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROW SOME GOOD — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetONE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEAD COUNT INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHUI MALAMA I KE ALA ULILI — $7,160 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMALAMA LEARNING CENTER — $7,160 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFOODCORPS INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% 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…Atherton Family Found…Stupski FoundationCooke Foundation Limi…Aloha United Way IncKaiser Foundation Hea…Kosasa FoundationCouncil for Native Ha…Bank of Hawaii Charit…Nuestro Futuro IncThe Harry and Jeanett…The Healy Foundation
Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha SchoolsHI29.8× affinity12 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 · Stupski Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · Aloha United Way Inc · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc · Kosasa Foundation · Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Nuestro Futuro Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Healy 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 Johnson Ohana 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Foodcorps Inc — 21% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report 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 Johnson Ohana Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Johnson Ohana 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 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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