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Kauai United Way

Providing leadership to unite the people of kauai by sharing resources to better care for one another.

$275k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$557kHealth$431kYouth Development$298kFood & Nutrition$152kHousing & Shelter$127kCommunity Improvement$117kCrime & Legal$79kEducation$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $265,459, the rows itemized in this filing. The $274,839 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $9,380 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 $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $249k
$14,650
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $24k → 9%KAUAI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY HOMELESS: $24k → 9%YMCA: $23k → 9%KAUAI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $22k → 9%KAUAI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $22k → 9%KAUAI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY HOMELESS: $21k → 9%KAUAI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $21k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $20k → 9%YMCA: $19k → 9%KAUAI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY HOMELESS: $18k → 9%KAUAI HOSPICE: $18k → 9%KAUAI HOSPICE: $17k → 9%YMCA: $17k → 9%HALE OPIO KAUAI: $16k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $16k → 9%YMCA: $16k → 9%KAUAI HOSPICE: $16k → 9%KAUAI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY: $16k → 9%WOMEN IN NEED - KAUAI: $15k → 9%KAUAI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY-HOMELESS: $15k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $15k → 9%PATCH: $14k → 9%KAUAI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY-HOMELESS: $14k → 9%YMCA: $14k → 9%YMCA: $14k → 9%YMCA: $13k → 9%KAUAI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY: $13k → 9%KAUAI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY-HOMELESS: $13k → 9%LIFE'S BRIDGES HAWAII: $13k → 9%KAUAI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY: $12k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $12k → 9%WOMEN IN NEED - KAUAI: $12k → 9%KAUAI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY: $12k → 9%PATCH: $12k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $11k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $11k → 9%PATCH: $10k → 9%PATCH: $10k → 9%PATCH: $10k → 9%LIFE'S BRIDGES HAWAII: $9k → 9%PATCH: $8k → 9%PATCH: $8k → 9%HALE KIPA: $8k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $8k → 9%HALE KIPA: $7k → 9%PATCH: $7k → 9%WOMEN IN NEED - KAUAI: $6k → 9%HALE KIPA: $6k → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 24 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
9

Total granted

$1.8M
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+30%

Still filing today

88%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther
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

  • KF
    KAUAI FOOD BANK INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +116%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII
    7× · 2017–2025 · $117k · revenue +96%
  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KAUAI
    7× · 2017–2025 · $116k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • HO
    HALE OPIO KAUAI INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +53%
  • KH
    KAUAI HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue -31%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAIIgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +30%
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
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
2
Hoomau Ke Ola

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…

Health
3
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
4
Maui Family Support Services Inc

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…

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5
Kalauokekahuli

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…

Human Services
6
Kalihi-Palama Health Center (Hale Ho'ola Hou)

To provide quality, integrated health and social services to our community and all others in need of health care.

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7
Ihs the Institute for Human Services Inc

Our mission, vision and approach to homelessness are rooted in core hawaiian values that guide our outcomes and overall impact.

Housing & Shelter
8
Ku Anuenue

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…

Human Services
9
Hope Services Hawaii Inc

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,…

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10
Ywca of Hawaii Island

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,…

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11
Hawaii Education Institute
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12
Five Mountains Hawaii Inc

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.…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hale Kipa Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
19/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KAUAI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INCORPORATED: $228,112 · Human ServicesKAUAI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INCORPORATEDCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $116,925 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAIIYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KAUAI: $115,774 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KAUAIPATCH (PEOPLE ATTENTIVE TO CHILDREN): $78,794 · Human ServicesPATCH (PEOPLE ATTENTIVE TO CHILDREN)KAUAI HOSPICE INC: $51,043 · Human ServicesKAUAI HOSPICE INCWomen in Need: $33,208 · Human ServicesHALE KIPA INC: $25,584 · Human Services+3 more: $38,944 · Human Services+3 moreBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII INC: $91,822 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWA…CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $90,404 · OtherCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICEBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-ALOHA COUNCIL #104: $89,945 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-ALOHA C…Salvation Army Hawaiian and Pacific Islands Division: $83,421 · OtherSalvation Army Hawaiian and P…GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF HAWAII: $78,260 · OtherGIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF HAWAII+5 more: $47,548 · Other+5 moreMENTAL HEALTH KOKUA: $99,798 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH KOKUAFRIENDSHIP CLUB: $81,221 · HealthFRIENDSHIP CLUBMALAMA PONO HEALTH SERVICES FKA MALAMA PONO-KAUAI AIDS PROJECT: $60,271 · HealthMALAMA PONO HEALTH SERV…EASTER SEALS HAWAII: $50,710 · HealthEASTER SEALS HAWAIIPARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER: $50,336 · HealthPARENTS AND CHILDREN TO…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $28,655 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & R…+1 more: $8,500 · HealthKAUAI FOOD BANK INC: $150,237 · Food & NutritionKAUAI FOO…LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF HAWAII: $64,350 · Crime & LegalKAUAI UNITED WAY: $23,647 · PhilanthropyMAUI UNITED WAY: $10,187 · PhilanthropyKUMU'S CUPBOARD: $33,116 · EducationHAWAII CHILDRENS THEATRE: $2,309 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$688,384Other$481,400Health$379,491Food & Nutrition$150,237Crime & Legal$64,350Philanthropy$33,834Education$33,116Arts & Culture$2,309

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 budgetKAUAI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INCORPORATED: $228,112 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetKAUAI FOOD BANK INC: $150,237 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $116,925 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KAUAI: $115,774 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH KOKUA: $99,798 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII INC: $91,822 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $90,404 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-ALOHA COUNCIL #104: $89,945 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CLUB: $81,221 over 7y, 45% of budgetPATCH (PEOPLE ATTENTIVE TO CHILDREN): $78,794 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF HAWAII: $64,350 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMALAMA PONO HEALTH SERVICES FKA MALAMA PONO-KAUAI AIDS PROJECT: $60,271 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetKAUAI HOSPICE INC: $51,043 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEASTER SEALS HAWAII: $50,710 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER: $50,336 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWomen in Need: $33,208 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetKUMU'S CUPBOARD: $33,116 over 3y, 12% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $28,655 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHALE KIPA INC: $25,584 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKAUAI UNITED WAY: $23,647 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetLIFE'S BRIDGES HAWAII INC: $22,202 over 2y, 25% of budgetHALE OPIO KAUAI INC: $16,382 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetKAUAI HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $15,690 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII: $12,365 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY: $10,187 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUINE THERAPY INC: $8,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetHAWAII CHILDRENS THEATRE: $2,309 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KAUAI: $360 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

The Harry and Jeanett…Atherton Family Found…Friends of Hawaii Cha…Hawaii Hotel Industry…Hawaii Foodbank IncHawaii Island United …Grove Farm Company Fo…George N Wilcox Gener…J Watumull FundCentral Pacific Bank …Aloha United Way IncEnterprise Holdings F…
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation IncMD30.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 United Way?

    Find your warmest path to Kauai United Way 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 33 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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