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The Gift Foundation of Hawaii

To encourage young adults in hawaii to participate in philanthropic giving.

$252k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Youth Development$260kHousing & Shelter$229kHealth$165kFood & Nutrition$150kEnvironment$125kEducation$116kArts & Culture$98kHuman Services$91kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$75,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$218k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAUI YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES$125,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MAUI$75,000
LELE ALOHA$50,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $217k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $69k → 9%HOSPICE HAWAII: $10k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE: $10k → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $70k → 9%MA'I MOVEMENT HAWAII INC: $26k → 9%LET GRACE IN: $20k → 9%LET GRACE IN: $13k → 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.

17%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$267k · 5 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +131% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
23

Total granted

$267k
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+131%
+36%

Still filing today

100%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k 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
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalArts & CultureHealthAnimalsOther

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

  • FP
    FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII
    2× · 2018–2020 · $79k · revenue +367%
  • HU
    H U G S FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES
    2× · 2017–2020 · $70k · revenue +18%
  • CU
    CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU
    2× · 2017–2019 · $53k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • RY
    RESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENTgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +85%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR DRAMA EDUCATION
    one grant, 2017 · $94k · revenue +4% · 51% of their budget
  • AH
    ALOHA HARVEST
    one grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue +2%

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
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
2
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
3
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
4
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
5
Malama Kua Aina
Environment
6
Hui Malama I Ke Ala Ulili

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.

Community Improvement
7
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

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

Human Services
8
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
—
9
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
10
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
11
Hawaii Education Institute
—
12
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Hawaii Inc and the most unlike its peers is Women Speaking Out. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Support ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Hawaiian Cultural Land Stew…Hawaiian & Pacific Islander…Hawaii Community DevelopmentHawaiian Culture & Education
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr14%19%5–10yr18%19%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr15%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%12%5–10yr18%21%10–20yr18%34%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr15%5%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
13%
695/5,410

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 31 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
23/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MAUI YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $125,000 · OtherMAUI YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MAUI INC — $75,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MAUI INCDYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS — $50,000 · OtherDYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONSHOA AINA O MAKAHA — $40,000 · OtherHOA AINA O MAKAHADOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER — $75,000 · OtherDOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTERASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII — $37,500 · OtherAloha Animal Sanctuary — $25,000 · OtherSUSTAINABLE COASTLINES HAWAI'I — $59,500 · OtherSUSTAINABLE COASTLINES HAWAI'IKAKOO OIWI — $59,000 · OtherKAKOO OIWICHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU — $53,000 · OtherCHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULULELE ALOHA — $50,000 · OtherLELE ALOHA+5 more — $62,500 · Other+5 moreFAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII — $79,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF …FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER — $70,000 · Human ServicesFEEDING HAWAII TOG…HO'OLA NA PUA — $33,000 · Human ServicesHO'OLA NA PUALET GRACE IN — $32,500 · Human ServicesLET GRACE INMAI MOVEMENT HAWAII INC — $25,800 · Human ServicesMAI MOVEMENT HAWAI…HOSPICE HAWAII INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesRESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT — $100,000 · Housing & ShelterRESIDENTIAL…IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC — $55,000 · Housing & ShelterIHS THE INS…UVSC — $70,000 · HealthUVSCH U G S FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES — $69,500 · HealthH U G S FO…WOMEN SPEAKING OUT — $50,000 · Crime & LegalPALAMA SETTLEMENT — $50,000 · Crime & LegalALLIANCE FOR DRAMA EDUCATION — $94,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $4,000 · Arts & CultureALOHA HARVEST — $80,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$711,500Human Services$250,300Housing & Shelter$155,000Health$139,500Crime & Legal$100,000Arts & Culture$98,000Food & Nutrition$80,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMAUI YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $125,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetRESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT — $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR DRAMA EDUCATION — $94,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetALOHA HARVEST — $80,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII — $79,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER — $75,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MAUI INC — $75,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUVSC — $70,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetFEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER — $70,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetH U G S FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES — $69,500 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetSUSTAINABLE COASTLINES HAWAI'I — $59,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetKAKOO OIWI — $59,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC — $55,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU — $53,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN SPEAKING OUT — $50,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetPALAMA SETTLEMENT — $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetDYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLELE ALOHA — $50,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII — $37,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA — $33,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLET GRACE IN — $32,500 over 2y, 22% of budgetMAI MOVEMENT HAWAII INC — $25,800 over 1y, 19% of budgetAloha Animal Sanctuary — $25,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetWAIPA FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMAUI HUI MALAMA — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHOSPICE HAWAII INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII LITERACY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Bank of Hawaii Charit…Aloha United Way IncJ Watumull FundCooke Foundation Limi…Kosasa FoundationThe Harry and Jeanett…Atherton Family Found…Friends of Hawaii Cha…First Hawaiian Bank F…First Insurance Compa…Central Pacific Bank …The Clarence Tc Ching…
Bank of Hawaii Charitable FdnHI44.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Aloha United Way Inc · J Watumull Fund · Cooke Foundation Limited · Kosasa Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Atherton Family Foundation · Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · The Clarence Tc Ching 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 The Gift Foundation of Hawaii 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your 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
    7report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Gift Foundation of Hawaii?

    Find your warmest path to The Gift Foundation of Hawaii 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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