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Kualoa Ranch Foundation at a glance

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Kualoa Ranch Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$130k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$110kHuman Services$57kFood & Nutrition$32kHealth$30kPhilanthropy$25kEnvironment$20kHousing & Shelter$20kPublic Benefit$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAWAIIAN MISSION CHILDREN'S SOCIETY$35,000
BISHOP MUSEUM$25,000
KUALOA-HEEIA ECUMENICAL YOUTH PROJECT$15,000
DAUGHTERS OF HAWAII$10,000
IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC$10,000
WAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION DBA MA'O ORGANIC FARMS$10,000
SUSTAINABLE COASTLINES HAWAII$5,000
HEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTY BABIES COALITION OF HAWAII$5,000
KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES$5,000
KAKOO OIWI$5,000
MALAMA LEARNING CENTER$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $10k → 9%KUALOA-HEEIA ECUMENICAL YOUTH PROJECT: $15k → 9%KEY PROJECT: $10k → 9%KEY PROJECT: $5k → 9%PAEPAE O HE'EIA: $5k → 9%PAEPAE O HE'EIA: $5k → 9%PAEPAE O HEEIA: $2k → 9%TOUCH A HEART: $5k → 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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$196k · 10 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
9

Total granted

$196k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+1%

Still filing today

90%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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

  • BM
    BISHOP MUSEUM
    5× · 2021–2025 · $52k · revenue +99%
  • KE
    KUALOA-HEEIA ECUMENICAL YOUTH PROJECT
    3× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +32%
  • HN
    HO'OLA NA PUA
    2× · 2022–2023 · $25k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • MO
    MAO ORGANIC FARMS-WAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORP
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • MU
    MAUI UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -87%
  • WC
    WOMEN'S CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -32%
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
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

To improve the health and well-being of our community.

Human Services
2
Papahana Kuaola

Papahana kuaola's mission is to create quality educational programs focused on environmental restoration and economic sustainability fully integrated with hawaiian knowledge in order to exemplify a lifestyle respectful of kanaka, `aina,…

Environment
3
Hui Aloha Kiholo

Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance the cultural and natural landscape of the kiholo bay area through collaborative management and active community stewardship.

Arts & Culture
4
Aina Hookupu O Kilauea

Improve the environmental, social & economic well-being of the kilauea community and kauai by developing county of kauai land into a community garden,individual farming plots, farmers market & other facilities.

Food & Nutrition
5
Huliauapaa

Growing hawaii's communities through culturally based forms of innovative learning, leadership development, and collaborative networking in wahi kupuna stewardship.

Environment
6
The Kohala Center

The kohala center is an independent community-based center for research, conservation, and education.

Environment
7
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
8
Ke Ola Mamo

To provide community awareness and health programs to native hawaiians in conformity with the hawaiian health care act of 1988 as amended.

Unclassified
9
Kukio Hoomana Fund

The kuki'o ho'omana fund seeks to uplift and enrich our hawai'i island community through intentional investments in curated local organizations focusing on youth empowerment, affordable housing, environmental preservation, cultural…

Philanthropy
10
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
11
Waikiki Health

To provide high quality medical and social services that are affordable and accessible for everyone regardless of ability to pay.

Health
12
Hui Malama I Ke Ala Ulili

To re-establish the systems that sustain our community through educational initiatives and land-based practices that cultivate abundance, regenerate responsibilities, and promote collective health and well being.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaiian Mission Children's Society; the most unlike its peers is Ihs the Institute for Human Services 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

21 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. 21 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BISHOP MUSEUM: $52,000 · Arts & CultureBISHOP MUSEUMHAWAIIAN MISSION CHILDREN'S SOCIETY: $35,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAIIAN MISSION CHILDREN'S SOCIETYDAUGHTERS OF HAWAII: $15,000 · Arts & CultureDAUGHTERS OF HAWAIIHOOKUAAINA: $7,500 · Arts & CultureHOOKUAAINAKUALOA-HEEIA ECUMENICAL YOUTH PROJECT: $30,000 · Human ServicesKUALOA-HEEIA ECUMENICAL YO…HO'OLA NA PUA: $25,000 · Human ServicesHO'OLA NA PUAPAEPAE O HE'EIA: $12,000 · Human ServicesPAEPAE O HE'EIAHELPING HANDS HAWAII: $10,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS HAWAIITOUCH A HEART INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTOUCH A HEART INCHEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTHY BABIES COALITION OF HAWAII: $17,500 · HealthHEALTHY MOT…WOMEN'S CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $12,500 · HealthWOMEN'S CAN…KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $5,000 · HealthKOKUA KALIH…MAO ORGANIC FARMS-WAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORP: $20,000 · OtherMAO ORGANIC FARMS-W…Individual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant re…HAWAIIAN MISSIONARY HOUSES: $7,000 · OtherHAWAIIAN MISSIONARY…WAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · OtherWAIANAE COMMUNITY R…KAKOO OIWI: $7,000 · OtherKAKOO OIWIMALAMA LEARNING CENTER: $5,000 · OtherMALAMA LEARNING CEN…ALOHA HARVEST: $2,000 · OtherMAUI UNITED WAY: $15,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterSUSTAINABLE COASTLINES HAWAI'I: $10,000 · EnvironmentHAWAII NATURE CENTER INC: $5,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$109,500Human Services$82,000Health$35,000Other$58,500Philanthropy$25,000Housing & Shelter$20,000Environment$15,000

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 budgetBISHOP MUSEUM: $52,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKUALOA-HEEIA ECUMENICAL YOUTH PROJECT: $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTHY BABIES COALITION OF HAWAII: $17,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDAUGHTERS OF HAWAII: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPAEPAE O HE'EIA: $12,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINABLE COASTLINES HAWAI'I: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHELPING HANDS HAWAII: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOOKUAAINA: $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKAKOO OIWI: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII NATURE CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTOUCH A HEART INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALOHA HARVEST: $2,000 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.

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.

Bank of Hawaii Charit…Aloha United Way IncAtherton Family Found…The Harry and Jeanett…Harold Kl Castle Foun…Kosasa FoundationJ Watumull FundTrustees of the Estat…Hmsa FoundationFirst Hawaiian Bank F…Central Pacific Bank …Seto Foundation Co Ha…
Bank of Hawaii Charitable FdnHI26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Aloha United Way Inc · Atherton Family Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Harold Kl Castle Foundation · Kosasa Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Hmsa Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Seto Foundation Co Hawaii Community 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 Kualoa Ranch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kualoa Ranch Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Kualoa Ranch Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kualoa Ranch 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 24 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-PF 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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