· Private foundation
Research Institute for Hawaiiusa
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WE TALK STORY | $11,000 |
| CENTER FOR CIVIC EDU | $3,000 |
| US COAST GUARD FOUNDATION | $2,600 |
| LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION | $2,041 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I | $2,000 |
| ALOHA UNITED WAY | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,400 |
| HISTORIC HAWAII FOUNDATION | $1,292 |
| USO INC | $1,259 |
| HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO | $1,200 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $1,030 |
| YMCA | $1,000 |
| HAWAII THEATRE CENTER | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $791 |
| Individual grant recipient | $717 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +21% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- PHPEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM5× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +21%
- MHMANOA HERITAGE CENTER FKA MANOA VALLEY CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUND3× · 2017–2021 · $2k · revenue +25%
- HHHISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- HMHAWAII MISSION HOUSEone grant, 2019 · $6k
- HMHAWAII MISSIONS HOUSEone grant, 2022 · $1k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2023 · $519
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.
The society is dedicated to preserving historical materials relating to hawaii, and to publishing scholarly research on hawaiian history so present and future peoples throughout the world will recognize and appreciate the history. the…
Dedicated to the protection of native hawaiian plants, animals, and ecosystems for future generations.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
To preserve, restore, interpret, share, and celebrate the unique cultural, historical, and spiritual qualities of `iolani palace and its grounds for the benefit of native hawaiians, the people of hawai`i, and the world.
With the spirit of aloha, we inspire the discovery and stewardship of the natural and cultural heritage of pacific island parks. we do this through sales, service, and support.
The mission of the corporation shall be to work with partners to protect and restore native ecosystems and watersheds, to improve the quality and quantity of freshwater resources to perpetuate hawaiian cultural resources and practices, to…
To promote awareness of the humanities to the general public.
To be a vibrant resource, strengthening our diverse community by educating present and future generations in the evolving japanese american experience in hawaii. we do this through relevant programming, meaningful community service and…
Hawaiian islands land trust dba hawai'i land trust (hilt) is hawai'i's statewide land trust that is both a hawai'i 501(c)3 nonprofit, and a nationally accredited land trust. hilt's mission is to protect and steward the lands that sustain…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Hawai'i Foundation and the most unlike its peers is National Kidney Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 44 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 PEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MANOA HERITAGE CENTER FKA MANOA VALLEY CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUND ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII THEATRE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Eisenhower Foundation ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BISHOP MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
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 Strong Foundation · J Watumull Fund · John R Halligan Charitable Fund · The Cades Foundation · Hawaii Council for Humanities · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Aloha United Way Inc · Atherton Family Foundation · The Michael B Wood Foundation · Hawaii Community Reinvestment Corporation · Castiglione A Casauria Foundation · Kosasa 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 Research Institute for Hawaiiusa 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.
- American Antiquarian Society — 7% of income from government
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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