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The Garden Club of Honolulu

The purpose of THE GARDEN CLUB OF HONOLULU ("club") is to stimulate knowledge and love of gardening, horticulture, floral design and nature photography; and to promote and participate in the restoration, improvement and protection of the environment through programs and actions in conservation, civic improvement, and education.

$25k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Environment$57kYouth Development$18kFood & Nutrition$15kEducation$14kHuman Services$10kArts & Culture$7k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $10,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $24,521 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $14,521 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$551k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAWAII CONSERVATION ALLIANCE FUND$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $33k) 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%AFTER SCHOOL ALL STARS: $18k → 9%KAHUMANA ORGANIC FARMS: $15k → 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 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.

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Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
2
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
3
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
4
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
5
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
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6
Ocean Alliance Project

Protecting and promoting the marine biodiversity of Hawai'i through coral restoration, ecological monitoring, regenerative tourism, and cultural integration

Science & Tech
7
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
8
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.

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9
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
10
Huliauapaa

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

Environment
11
The Kohala Center

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

Environment
12
Friends of Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge

To support native Hawaiian forest habitats such as Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge in terms of restoring protecting and conserving biological diversity at both the Hakalau and Kona Forest Units. Particular emphasis is focused on…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Conservation Alliance Foundation; the most unlike its peers is University of Hawaii 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

11 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.

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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OAHU RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT: $15,000 · EnvironmentOAHU RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENTNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $10,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDENHAWAII CONSERVATION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EnvironmentHAWAII CONSERVATION ALLIANCE FOUNDATIONALOHA TREE ALLIANCE: $10,000 · EnvironmentALOHA TREE ALLIANCEMERWIN CONSERVANCY INC: $6,000 · EnvironmentMERWIN CONSERVANCY INCFRIENDS OF HAWAIIS URBAN FOREST: $5,940 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF HAWAIIS URBAN FORESTAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $18,000 · Human ServicesAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAIIALTERNATIVE STRUCTURES INTERNATIONAL: $15,000 · Human ServicesALTERNATIVE STRUCTURES INTERNATIONALHO'OLA NA PUA: $10,000 · Human ServicesHO'OLA NA PUAUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $13,558 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…KONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $7,000 · Arts & Culture
Environment$56,940Human Services$43,000Education$13,558Arts & Culture$7,000

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 budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $18,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOAHU RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetALTERNATIVE STRUCTURES INTERNATIONAL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $13,558 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALOHA TREE ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetKONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $7,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMERWIN CONSERVANCY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF HAWAIIS URBAN FOREST: $5,940 over 1y, 2.6% 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.

Atherton Family Found…Harold Kl Castle Foun…Amazonsmile Foundation
Atherton Family FoundationHI15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atherton Family Foundation · Harold Kl Castle Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 The Garden Club of Honolulu funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Garden Club of Honolulu. Bigger dots raise more.

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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
    2report 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, FY20–24
    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.

    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 11 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 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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