· Private foundation
Stephen B Hard Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hamakua Youth Foundation | $6,000 |
| Emma's House - Children's Advocacy Center | $5,000 |
| Navian Hawaii | $2,000 |
| World Central Kitchen | $2,000 |
| Adelante Foundation | $2,000 |
| Winners' Camp Foundation | $1,500 |
| Ka Hale O Na Keiki Preschool | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Upaya Zen Center | $1,000 |
| Pachamama Alliance | $500 |
| North Hawaii Hospice | $500 |
| Marijuana Policy Project Foundation | $500 |
| Turn On To America | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| A Network for Grateful Living | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
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.
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.
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To improve the lives of those we touch by offering support, guidance and compassionate care of body, mind and spirit.
Hawai`i people`s fund supports, funds, and amplifies the work of hawai`i- based grassroots organizations challenging systems of oppression.
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.
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Growing hawaii's communities through culturally based forms of innovative learning, leadership development, and collaborative networking in wahi kupuna stewardship.
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
To provide medical, nursing, counseling and other supportive services necessary for individuals with life-limiting illnesses and their families.
To promote agriculture and farming, and to enhance environmental stewardship in the state of hawaii, through agriculture research, education, training, management and public outreach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Hawaii Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Pachamama Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 15 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 Hamakua Youth Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds ADELANTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WINNER'S CAMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A NETWORK FOR GRATEFUL LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds The Pachamama Alliance ↗
- Who funds NORTH HAWAII HOSPICE INC ↗
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.
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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 Stephen B Hard 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.
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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