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Noa Webster Aluli Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Education$141kReligion$23kEnvironment$23kArts & Culture$21kCivil Rights$11kHealth$8k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$428k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST LOUIS SCHOOL$20,000
LIVING LIFE SOURCE FOUNDATION$5,000
UH FOUNDATION$3,000
KA'OHANA O KALAUPAPA$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MAUI MEMORIAL MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%HUI MAKA'AINANA O MAKANA: $5k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%HUI HO'OLEIMALUO: $5k → 15%MAUI MEMORIAL MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%UH FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%AHA PUNANA LEO: $5k → 15%UH FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%AHA PUNANA LEO: $5k → 15%HAWAII PONOI FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%HUI HO'OLEIMALUO: $3k → 15%PBS HAWAII: $500 → 9%ST LOUIS SCHOOL: $20k → 9%ST LOUIS SCHOOL: $20k → 9%ST LOUIS SCHOOL: $19k → 9%ST LOUIS SCHOOL: $18k → 9%ST LOUIS SCHOOL: $17k → 9%ST LOUIS SCHOOL: $16k → 9%ST LOUIS SCHOOL: $15k → 9%LIVING LIFE SOURCE FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%LIVING LIFE SOURCE FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%LIVING LIFE SOURCE FOUNDATION: $4k → 9%LIVING LIFE SOURCE FOUNDATION: $4k → 9%LIVING LIFE SOURCE FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%LIVING LIFE SOURCE FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%LIVING LIFE SOURCE FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%KUAAINA ULU AUAMO: $5k → 9%KUAAINA ULU AUAMO: $5k → 9%KUAAINA ULU AUAMO: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$215k · 8 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$215k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+105%
+289%

Still filing today

88%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEnvironmentEducationCivil RightsOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2024 · $16k · revenue +165%
  • KA
    KUA AINA ULU AUAMO
    3× · 2019–2021 · $15k · revenue +186%
  • AP
    AHA PUNANA LEO
    2× · 2020–2023 · $10k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • HP
    HAWAII PONOI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • HM
    Hui Maka Ainana O Makanagraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +289%
  • HP
    HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII
    one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +9%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
2
Hoa Aina O Makaha

Hoa aina o makaha (land of makaha shared in friendship) is more than a destination farm or nonprofit organization. the embrace of a sanctuary is felt by whoever enters the gates and a sense of belonging usually follows. once a barren piece…

Unclassified
3
Pohaku Pelemaka

Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance: the intrinsic qualities of the lower puna area, native hawaiian wellbeing, and the transmission of intergenerational knowledge and practices in partnership with county, state, government,…

Human Services
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
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
6
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
7
Hiikua a Hiialo Cultural Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
9
Kaiaulu Initiatives

Kaiaulu initiatives is regreening and rebuilding lahaina one tree and one person at a time through education, training, community networking & sustainability while incorporating hawaiian cultural practices.

Environment
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.

11
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
12
Lanikuhonua Cultural Institute

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kua Aina Ulu Auamo and the most unlike its peers is Living Life Source Foundation. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAINT LOUIS SCHOOL — $125,200 · OtherSAINT LOUIS SCHOOLHAWAII PONOI FOUNDATION — $5,000 · OtherLIVING LIFE SOURCE FOUNDATION — $23,000 · HealthLIVING LIFE SOU…MAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION — $7,500 · HealthMAUI HEALTH FOU…KUA AINA ULU AUAMO — $15,000 · EnvironmentKUA AINA U…Hui Maka Ainana O Makana — $5,000 · EnvironmentHui Maka A…AHA PUNANA LEO — $10,000 · Arts & CultureAHA PUNAN…HUI HOOLEIMALUO — $7,500 · Arts & CultureHUI HOOLE…+1 more — $500 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $15,500 · EducationKA'OHANA O KALAUPAPA — $11,000 · Civil Rights
Other$130,200Health$30,500Environment$20,000Arts & Culture$18,000Education$15,500Civil Rights$11,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLIVING LIFE SOURCE FOUNDATION — $23,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $15,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKUA AINA ULU AUAMO — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKA'OHANA O KALAUPAPA — $11,000 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetAHA PUNANA LEO — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHUI HOOLEIMALUO — $7,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha SchoolsHI19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Noa Webster Aluli Foundation 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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