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Kauai Energy Institute
Kauai Energy Institute KEI is a scientific research and education organization whose mission is the study of weak energies to determine how such weak energies can be observed recorded measured and quantified with the goal of improving health condition and life vitality for plants animals and humans.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Homeschool Now | $35,000 |
| Home School Legal Defense Association | $30,000 |
| Children s Health Defense | $30,000 |
| American Stewards of Liberty | $25,000 |
| Alliance for Natural Health Foundation | $25,000 |
| Institute for Justice | $25,000 |
| Center for Individual Rights | $25,000 |
| Weston A Price Foundation | $20,000 |
| Mises Institute | $20,000 |
| National Vaccine Information Center | $15,000 |
| Organic Consumers Association | $15,000 |
| Health Freedom Defense Fund | $15,000 |
| Foundation for Alternative & Integrative Medicine | $15,000 |
| Second Amendment Foundation | $15,000 |
| OrganicEye | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 70% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CHCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE5× · 2020–2024 · $165k · revenue +123%
- HSHOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION5× · 2020–2024 · $145k · revenue +1%
- ESEarth School Hawaii5× · 2020–2024 · $143k · revenue ×14
Funded once
- TCTHE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -29%
- IIICAN IMPROVING CHANDLER AREA NEIGHBORHOODSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +57%
- EIEARTH INTELLIGENCE NETWORKone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -100%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.
Disseminate information and education about pertinent economic, social and governmental topics, via print, web and other media to educate the public about the principles of LIbertarianism.
To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.
Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.
To educate the public regarding its proposal to implement a Nationwide Popular Vote Election of the President of the United States by providing objectively-determined information, data, analyses, and studies aimed at improving
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
Advocates for the environment is organizaed to educate the public concerning the law and the environment, to provide low-cost legal services to the public and other nonprofit organizations, and to use legal means such as litigation to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Foundation for Alternative. 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.
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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
35 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE ↗
- Who funds HOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Earth School Hawaii ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE WESTON A PRICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds For Our Rights ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN STEWARDS OF LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds Rodale Institute ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Center for Food Safety ↗
- Who funds THE RUTHERFORD INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR NATURAL HEALTH USA ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY ↗
- Who funds SECOND AMENDMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ALTERNATIVE ↗
- Who funds INFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ORGANICEYE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH FREEDOM DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH BOURNE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PEACHTREE COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR POLITICAL ECONOMYINC ↗
- Who funds THE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Namahana Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds ICAN IMPROVING CHANDLER AREA NEIGHBORHOODS ↗
- Who funds EARTH INTELLIGENCE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA NATURAL HEALTH COALITION ↗
- Who funds MARIN LINK INC ↗
- Who funds Anti-War Committee Education Fund ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Forrest C & Frances H Lattner Foundation · Carroll Petrie Foundation · Westreich Foundation · John P & Kathryn G Evans Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Ge Aerospace 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 Kauai Energy Institute 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.
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.
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