· Public charity
Kauai United Way
Providing leadership to unite the people of kauai by sharing resources to better care for one another.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $265,459 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $274,839 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,380 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $249k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAWAII FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $24,120 |
| KAUAI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC | $21,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH KOKUA | $20,000 |
| YMCA | $18,924 |
| KAUAI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY HOMELESS | $18,463 |
| EASTER SEALS HAWAII | $17,630 |
| KUMU'S CUPBOARD | $16,000 |
| CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES | $14,650 |
| SALVATION ARMY-LIHUE | $13,260 |
| FRIENDSHIP CLUB | $12,252 |
| KAUAI BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $11,160 |
| GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF HAWAII | $11,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-ALOHA COUNCIL | $10,600 |
| PATCH | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $688k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those 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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- KFKAUAI FOOD BANK INC7× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +116%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII7× · 2017–2025 · $117k · revenue +96%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KAUAI7× · 2017–2025 · $116k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- HOHALE OPIO KAUAI INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +53%
- KHKAUAI HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCone grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue -31%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAIIgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +30%
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.
Ho`omau ke ola provides comprehensive rehabilitation services including residential and outpatient care, treatment, and counseling to persons recovering from problems related to persons with mental and substance abuse disorders. ho`omau ke…
The mission of maui family support services, inc. (mfss) is to promote healthy family functioning by providing supportive services which build on family strengths. the prime directive is to utilize our collective resources toward the…
Kalauokekahuli encourages the healthy growth of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander families by supporting and enhancing the well-being of birthing people, parents, and their infants with holistic, multi-generational, and…
To provide quality, integrated health and social services to our community and all others in need of health care.
Our mission, vision and approach to homelessness are rooted in core hawaiian values that guide our outcomes and overall impact.
Ku Anuenue is focused on supporting mahu and queer people and their families that live on Hawaii Island by increasing access to: supportive relationships; safe, stable, protective, and equitable environments; opportunities for constructive…
Hope services hawaii provides housing-focused interventions to end homelessness through a continuum of services, including homeless prevention and diversion, mobile outreach, medical respite, street medicine, in- shelter medical attention,…
Our primary function is to fulfill the needs of our local community. YWCA of Hawai'i Island's services aim to draw together people with diverse experiences and relationships to meet those needs and attain our mission of eliminating racism,…
Five mountains hawaii provides a full range of bio-psycho-social services to the residents of north hawai'i, with a special emphasis on addressing the physical and mental health disparities of the kanaka maoli (native hawaiian) population.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hale Kipa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Equine Therapy Inc. 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 49 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 33 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.
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 KAUAI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds KAUAI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KAUAI ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH KOKUA ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-ALOHA COUNCIL #104 ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CLUB ↗
- Who funds PATCH (PEOPLE ATTENTIVE TO CHILDREN) ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds MALAMA PONO HEALTH SERVICES FKA MALAMA PONO-KAUAI AIDS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds KAUAI HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds PARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds Women in Need ↗
- Who funds KUMU'S CUPBOARD ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HALE KIPA INC ↗
- Who funds KAUAI UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds LIFE'S BRIDGES HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds HALE OPIO KAUAI INC ↗
- Who funds KAUAI HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds MAUI UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds EQUINE THERAPY INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII CHILDRENS THEATRE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KAUAI ↗
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: The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Atherton Family Foundation · Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc · Hawaii Hotel Industry Foundation · Hawaii Foodbank Inc · Hawaii Island United Way Inc · Grove Farm Company Foundation · George N Wilcox General Trust · J Watumull Fund · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · Enterprise Holdings 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 United Way 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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