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Kauai North Shore Community Foundation

Enhance the quality of life on kauai's remote north shore by strengthening resilience, expanding medical services and improving access to education making the community stronger, safer and more vibrant

$251k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$152k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$1.0MRecreation & Sports$70kEnvironment$25kCommunity Improvement$20k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $200,832, the rows itemized in this filing. The $250,982 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $50,150 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $152k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$310k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NAMAHANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$151,778
REEF GUARDIANS HAWAII$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$10,000
KILAUEA SCHOOL PTSA$7,000
MAKANA NORTH SHORE CLINIC$6,454
KAUAI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$5,600
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) 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%NAMAHANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $403k → 9%HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $15k → 9%NAMAHANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $400k → 9%ALOHA ANGELS FUND: $10k → 9%NAMAHANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $152k → 9%NAMAHANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $150k → 9%ANAINA HOU COMMUNITY PARK: $12k → 9%KILAUEA SCHOOL PTSA: $8k → 9%KILAUEA SCHOOL PTSA: $7k → 9%KILAUEA SCHOOL PTSA: $7k → 9%ANAINA HOU COMMUNITY PARK: $7k → 9%KAUAI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $6k → 9%KILAUEA SCHOOL PTSA: $6k → 9%KAUAI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $6k → 9%MAKANA NORTH SHORE CLINIC: $6k → 9%HANALEI INITIATIVE: $10k → 9%PRINCEVILLE H COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $32k → 9%REEF GUARDIANS HAWAII: $20k → 9%REEF GUARDIANS HAWAII: $10k → 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 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.
$1.2M · 6 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$1.2M
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+39%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • NE
    Namahana Education Foundation
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +63%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $55k · revenue +165%
  • KS
    Kilauea School PTSA
    4× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • PA
    PRINCEVILLE AT HANALEI COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $32k · revenue +39%
  • HI
    HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUSTgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +250%
  • AA
    ALOHA ANGELS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -63%
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
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
2
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
3
Malama Kua Aina
Environment
4
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
5
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
6
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
7
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
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8
Hanalei River Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Kukuiolono Park Trust Estate
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10
Na Hoa Aloha O Ka Pu Uhonua O Honaunau

For the benefit and inspiration of ALL, Na Hoa Aloha o ka Pu'uhonua o Honaunau participates with NPS and other partners to protect and preserve cultural and natural resources, guided by the aacestral knowledge of South Kona.

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11
Hawaii Education Institute
—
12
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Anaina Hou Community Park; the most unlike its peers is Kauai Christian Academy. 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

11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Namahana Education Foundation: $1,105,140 · OtherNamahana Education Foundation+2 more: $59,950 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $55,000 · EducationKauai Christian Academy: $11,100 · EducationREEF GUARDIANS HAWAII: $30,000 · EnvironmentHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $15,275 · EnvironmentThe Hanalei Initiative Inc: $10,000 · Community ImprovementALOHA ANGELS INC: $9,577 · Community ImprovementANAINA HOU COMMUNITY PARK: $19,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE MAKANA NORTH SHORE CLINIC: $6,454 · Health
Other$1,165,090Education$66,100Environment$45,275Community Improvement$19,577Recreation & Sports$19,000Health$6,454

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNamahana Education Foundation: $1,105,140 over 4y, 19% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPRINCEVILLE AT HANALEI COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $32,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetREEF GUARDIANS HAWAII: $30,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetKilauea School PTSA: $27,950 over 4y, 15% of budgetANAINA HOU COMMUNITY PARK: $19,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $15,275 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKauai Christian Academy: $11,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Hanalei Initiative Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALOHA ANGELS INC: $9,577 over 1y, 23% of budgetTHE MAKANA NORTH SHORE CLINIC: $6,454 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Kauai North Shore Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kauai North Shore Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Kauai North Shore Community Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kauai North Shore Community 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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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