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Locations Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$191k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$292kHealth$271kYouth Development$246kEducation$153kHousing & Shelter$101kRecreation & Sports$60kPhilanthropy$60kCrime & Legal$57kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $96k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OTHER DONATIONS (LESS THAN 1000)$15,847
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$14,929
FAMILY PROGRAMS HAWAII$12,108
KIDS HURT TOO HAWAII$11,994
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII$11,083
HAWAIIAN HOPE ORG$10,000
HAWAII 3R'S$10,000
ALOHA UNITED WAY$10,000
SWISH HONOLULU$6,832
SPECIAL OLYMPICS HAWAII$6,127
INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES$6,019
HUGS$6,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$5,335
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$5,019
NA KAMA KAI$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 (FY17–24, $232k) 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%HALE KIPA: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $10k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF HAWAII: $15k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF HAWAII: $6k → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $5k → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $5k → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $5k → 9%PALOLO CHINESE HOME: $2k → 9%PALOLO CHINESE HOME: $1k → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $5k → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $5k → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $5k → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $5k → 9%WOMEN IN NEED: $10k → 9%WOMEN IN NEED: $7k → 9%WOMEN IN NEED: $5k → 9%WOMEN-IN-NEED: $5k → 9%WOMEN IN NEED: $1k → 9%THE CAREGIVER FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%WOMEN IN NEED: $9k → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $8k → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $6k → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $5k → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $5k → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $4k → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $4k → 9%WOMEN IN NEED: $1k → 9%WOMEN IN NEED: $1k → 9%HAWAIIAN HOPE ORG: $21k → 9%HAWAIIAN HOPE ORG: $16k → 9%HAWAIIAN HOPE ORG: $11k → 9%HAWAIIAN HOPE ORG: $10k → 9%HAWAIIAN HOPE ORG: $10k → 9%HAWAIIAN HOPE ORG: $7k → 9%HAWAIIAN HOPE ORG: $5k → 9%HAWAIIAN HOPE ORG: $5k → 9%LANAKILA PACIFIC FOUNDATION: $1k → 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 73 repeat orgs$190k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against -15% for those funded once.

73 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
47

Total granted

$1.5M
$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
-15%

Still filing today

70%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HH
    HAWAIIAN HOPE ORG
    8× · 2017–2024 · $84k · revenue +468% · 32% of their budget
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII
    7× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +30%
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII
    7× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • D(
    DONATIONS (LESS THSN (1000)
    one grant, 2018 · $33k
  • KE
    KIPAPA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • RA
    RED APPLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
3
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

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

Human Services
4
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
5
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
6
Hawaii Education Institute
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7
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
8
Hawaii Maritime Center
—
9
Hospice of Hilo

To improve the lives of those we touch by offering support, guidance and compassionate care of body, mind and spirit.

Human Services
10
Hui Pohala

Palliative care is a win-win-win-win. expanding access to palliative care benefits all parts of the healthcare system. people living with serious illness are better able to manage physical and emotional symptoms and have peace of mind that…

Health
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
Hawaii Exemplary State Foundation
Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners in Development Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

72 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. 72 of the 125 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/72
Grantees still filing
51/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONATIONS (LESS THAN 1000): $155,186 · OtherDONATIONS (LESS THAN 1000)BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $82,461 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII: $74,182 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAIIHUGS: $50,462 · OtherOTHER DONATIONS (LESS THAN 1000): $49,910 · OtherFAMILY PROGRAMS HAWAII: $43,550 · OtherCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $39,615 · OtherDONATIONS (LESS THSN (1000): $32,731 · OtherWEED & SEED HAWAII INC: $32,750 · Other+75 more: $408,100 · Other+75 moreMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII: $66,277 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOU…American Diabetes Association: $42,500 · HealthAmerican Diabet…American Heart Association Inc: $33,722 · HealthAmerican Heart …KIDS HURT TOO HAWAII: $24,516 · HealthKIDS HURT TOO H…EASTER SEALS HAWAII: $20,065 · HealthEASTER SEALS HA…Surfers Healing Foundation Inc: $12,224 · HealthTHE AUTISM SOCIETY OF HAWAII: $11,000 · HealthTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $8,765 · Health+5 more: $22,875 · Health+5 moreHAWAIIAN HOPE ORG: $84,338 · Human ServicesHAWAIIAN HOPE O…Women in Need: $39,412 · Human ServicesWomen in NeedAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $35,372 · Human ServicesAFTER-SCHOOL AL…YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OAHU: $31,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S C…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,832 · Human ServicesAmerican Nation…CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $10,000 · Human Services+4 more: $10,237 · Human ServicesHAWAII 3RS: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $26,575 · Education'IOLANI SCHOOL: $9,232 · EducationIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $40,628 · Housing & ShelterHomeAid Hawaii: $26,000 · Housing & ShelterHAWAII HOMEOWNERSHIP CENTER: $5,353 · Housing & ShelterRESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION FINALLY HOME: $3,722 · Housing & ShelterALOHA UNITED WAY INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF OAHU: $23,500 · PhilanthropyLEILEHUA ALUMNI AND COMMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $10,198 · PhilanthropyHO'EA - THE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropySPECIAL OLYMPICS HAWAII INC: $41,127 · Recreation & SportsSWISH HONOLULU: $6,832 · Recreation & SportsAIO FOUNDATION: $3,365 · Recreation & SportsHAWAII STATE JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION IN: $3,163 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $1,060 · Recreation & Sports
Other$968,947Health$241,944Human Services$231,691Education$85,807Housing & Shelter$80,703Philanthropy$69,698Recreation & Sports$55,547

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 budgetHAWAIIAN HOPE ORG: $84,338 over 8y, 32% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII: $74,182 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII: $66,277 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetHAWAII 3RS: $50,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetFAMILY PROGRAMS HAWAII: $43,550 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $42,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS HAWAII INC: $41,127 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $40,628 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $39,615 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWomen in Need: $39,412 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $35,372 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $33,722 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWEED & SEED HAWAII INC: $32,750 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OAHU: $31,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $31,485 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALOHA UNITED WAY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $26,575 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHomeAid Hawaii: $26,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetKIDS HURT TOO HAWAII: $24,516 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF OAHU: $23,500 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetNA KAMA KAI: $22,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,832 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS HAWAII: $20,065 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $13,963 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSurfers Healing Foundation Inc: $12,224 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF HAWAII: $11,673 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLEILEHUA ALUMNI AND COMMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $10,198 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetREAD TO ME INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budget'IOLANI SCHOOL: $9,232 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOUTRIGGER DUKE KAHANAMOKU FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $8,852 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $8,765 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKUPU: $7,641 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKapi'olani Health Foundation: $7,098 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHELTER: $6,755 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation: $6,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $6,178 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII HOMEOWNERSHIP CENTER: $5,353 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHAWAII AG AND CULINARY ALLIANCE: $5,045 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII NATURE CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHALE KIPA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHO'EA - THE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetOahu Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Anim: $4,474 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION FINALLY HOME: $3,722 over 3y, 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 HAWAIIAN HOPE ORG ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII 3RS ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROGRAMS HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS HAWAII INC ↗
  • Who funds IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds Women in Need ↗
  • Who funds AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds WEED & SEED HAWAII INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OAHU ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
  • Who funds ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HomeAid Hawaii ↗
  • Who funds KIDS HURT TOO HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF OAHU ↗
  • Who funds NA KAMA KAI ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds EASTER SEALS HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Surfers Healing Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds THE AUTISM SOCIETY OF HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds ACHIEVE ZERO ↗

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.

Aloha United Way IncJ Watumull FundTradewind Group Found…Bank of Hawaii Charit…First Insurance Compa…The Harry and Jeanett…Atherton Family Found…Central Pacific Bank …First Hawaiian Bank F…The Queen's Medical C…Finance Factors Found…Aloha Harvest
Aloha United Way IncHI78.6× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aloha United Way Inc · J Watumull Fund · Tradewind Group Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Atherton Family Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · The Queen's Medical Center · Finance Factors Foundation · Aloha Harvest

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 Locations Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Locations 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report 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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    How do I get to Locations Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Locations 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 125 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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