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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.

$410k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$465kCrime & Legal$330kCivil Rights$330kFood & Nutrition$286kEducation$153kEnvironment$120kSocial Science$105kInternational$86kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Homeschool Now$35,000
Home School Legal Defense Association$30,000
Children s Health Defense$30,000
Institute for Justice$25,000
American Stewards of Liberty$25,000
Alliance for Natural Health Foundation$25,000
Center for Individual Rights$25,000
Mises Institute$20,000
Weston A Price Foundation$20,000
Second Amendment Foundation$15,000
Organic Consumers Association$15,000
Foundation for Alternative & Integrative Medicine$15,000
Informed Consent Action Network$15,000
National Vaccine Information Center$15,000
OrganicEye$15,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Health Freedom Defense Fund: $15k → 7%Organic Consumers Association: $15k → 8%Rodale Institute: $20k → 11%Pacific Legal Foundation: $50k → 12%Homeschool Now Hawaii: $26k → 9%Liberty International: $20k → 6%Judicial Watch Inc: $20k → 14%Children s Health Defense: $40k → 13%Foundation for Alternative & Integrative Medicine: $15k → 7%Mises Institute: $20k → 15%OrganicEye: $15k → 15%Children s Health Defense: $30k → 6%Second Amendment Foundation: $15k → 9%Children s Health Defense: $35k → 7%National Vaccine Information Center: $25k → 4%Institute for Justice: $30k → 7%Alliance for Natural Health Foundation: $25k → 9%Alliance for Natural Health: $20k → 12%Health Freedom Defense Fund: $15k → 7%Organic Consumers Association: $15k → 8%Rodale Institute: $16k → 11%Liberty International: $20k → 10%Pacific Legal Foundation: $25k → 12%For Our Rights: $30k → 9%For Our Rights: $20k → 9%Judicial Watch Inc: $15k → 14%Mises Institute: $20k → 15%OrganicEye Inc: $15k → 15%Children s Health Defense: $30k → 7%National Vaccine Information Center: $20k → 4%Institute For Justice: $30k → 7%For Our Rights: $25k → 9%Hawaii Center for Food Safety: $20k → 14%Ludwig Von Mises Institute: $15k → 15%Children s Health Defense: $30k → 7%Institute for Justice: $30k → 7%Institute for Justice: $25k → 7%Homeschool Now: $35k → 9%Institute for Justice: $20k → 7%Homeschool Now Hawaii: $30k → 9%Weston A Price Foundation: $25k → 14%Homeschool Now Hawaii: $26k → 9%Weston A Price Foundation: $25k → 14%Homeschool Now Hawaii: $26k → 9%Weston A Price Foundation: $25k → 14%Weston A Price Foundation: $20k → 14%Weston A Price Foundation: $20k → 14%Center for Individual Rights: $25k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MN
WI
NY
IA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
AZ
DC
HI
AL
GA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 26 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against -17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
6

Total granted

$1.9M
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
-17%

Still filing today

96%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsFood & NutritionPublic BenefitInternationalHealthEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $165k · revenue +123%
  • HS
    HOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $145k · revenue +1%
  • ES
    Earth School Hawaii
    5× · 2020–2024 · $143k · revenue ×14

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -29%
  • MN
    MINNESOTA NATURAL HEALTH COALITIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +37%
  • II
    ICAN IMPROVING CHANDLER AREA NEIGHBORHOODSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +57%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
2
The Libertarian Institute

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.

Education
3
Frontiers of Freedom Institute

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…

Public Benefit
4
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
5
Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology Inc

Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.

Science & Tech
6
Institute for Research on Presidential Elections

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

Civil Rights
7
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
8
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

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…

Social Science
9
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

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,…

International
10
Competitive Enterprise Institute

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…

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11
Animal Outlook Inc

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.

Animals
12
Advocates for the Environment Inc

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…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

35 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
24/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION: $145,000 · OtherHOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATIONEarth School Hawaii: $143,000 · OtherEarth School HawaiiFor Our Rights: $90,000 · OtherFor Our RightsLUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC: $90,000 · OtherLUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONO…NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER: $90,000 · OtherNATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTERTHE RUTHERFORD INSTITUTE: $55,000 · OtherTHE RUTHERFORD INSTITUTEPacific Legal Foundation: $80,000 · OtherPacific Legal FoundationNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ALTERNATIVE: $43,000 · OtherNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ALTERNATIVE+5 more: $61,000 · Other+5 moreINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $135,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR JUST…AMERICAN STEWARDS OF LIBERTY INC: $85,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN STEWARDS …SECOND AMENDMENT FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Civil RightsSECOND AMENDMENT F…HEALTH FREEDOM DEFENSE FUND INC: $40,000 · Civil RightsHEALTH FREEDOM DEF…CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS: $25,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR INDIVID…THE WESTON A PRICE FOUNDATION: $115,000 · Food & NutritionTHE WESTON A PRI…Rodale Institute: $66,000 · Food & NutritionRodale InstituteCenter for Food Safety: $55,000 · Food & NutritionCenter for Food …ORGANICEYE INC: $40,000 · Food & NutritionORGANICEYE INCTHE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: $165,000 · EnvironmentCHILDREN'S H…HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $50,000 · EnvironmentHAWAIIAN ISL…ALLIANCE FOR NATURAL HEALTH USA: $50,000 · HealthINFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK: $42,000 · HealthPEACHTREE COLLABORATIVE: $35,000 · HealthMINNESOTA NATURAL HEALTH COALITION: $10,000 · HealthJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $65,000 · Public BenefitORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION: $60,000 · Public BenefitEARTH INTELLIGENCE NETWORK: $10,000 · Public BenefitINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY: $50,000 · InternationalRANDOLPH BOURNE INSTITUTE INC: $39,000 · InternationalAnti-War Committee Education Fund: $6,000 · International
Other$797,000Civil Rights$330,000Food & Nutrition$286,000Environment$215,000Health$137,000Public Benefit$135,000International$95,000

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 budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: $165,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION: $145,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEarth School Hawaii: $143,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $135,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WESTON A PRICE FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetFor Our Rights: $90,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetLUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC: $90,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER: $90,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN STEWARDS OF LIBERTY INC: $85,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRodale Institute: $66,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION: $60,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCenter for Food Safety: $55,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE RUTHERFORD INSTITUTE: $55,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $50,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY: $50,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetALLIANCE FOR NATURAL HEALTH USA: $50,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetSECOND AMENDMENT FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ALTERNATIVE: $43,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetINFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK: $42,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetORGANICEYE INC: $40,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetHEALTH FREEDOM DEFENSE FUND INC: $40,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetRANDOLPH BOURNE INSTITUTE INC: $39,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetPEACHTREE COLLABORATIVE: $35,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPROJECT VERITAS: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR POLITICAL ECONOMYINC: $15,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetTHE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetICAN IMPROVING CHANDLER AREA NEIGHBORHOODS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEARTH INTELLIGENCE NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetNamahana Education Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMARIN LINK INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Donors Trust IncForrest C & Frances H…Carroll Petrie Founda…Westreich FoundationJohn P & Kathryn G Ev…Boston Foundation IncShell USA Company Fou…ImpactassetsincMorgan Stanley Global…The Chicago Community…National Philanthropi…Ge Aerospace Foundati…
Donors Trust IncVA18.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Kauai Energy Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kauai Energy Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%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
    2get 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.
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    Find your warmest path to Kauai Energy Institute 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 35 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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