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The Hawaii Pacific Foundation Inc

To empower hawaiian communities by supporting programs that improve access to opportunities for success to the socio-economically disadvantaged.

$2.2M
Granted FY2023
46
Grants FY2023
6
States reached
$659k
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 FY2017–2023.

Education$3.8MCommunity Improvement$771kEnvironment$424kArts & Culture$340kEmployment$230kHealth$148kYouth Development$125kFood & Nutrition$120kOther$0
02FY2023 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k22 grants · $81k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $220k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+1 grant · $659k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$193M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Hawaii Foundation$658,500
Council for Native Hawaiian Advance$180,000
Kukolu$160,000
Friends of Waimanalo$155,000
Partners in Development Foundation$150,000
East West Center Foundation$132,000
The Native Imaginative$109,000
Papahana Aloha Aina Hawaii$100,000
Hoomau Ke Ola$84,000
Hui Mahiai Aina$58,000
Kulaniakea$55,000
Hui O Koolaupoko$52,500
The Trust for Public Land$50,000
The Derek Sakaguchi Foundation$30,000
Pua Foundation$30,000
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 (FY23–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Pantry: $2k → 9%YWCA Laniakea: $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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.7M · 19 repeat orgs$410k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
6

Total granted

$5.7M
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+60%

Still filing today

79%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $358k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHealthInternationalOther

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
    5× · 2018–2023 · $2.7M · revenue +165%
  • PI
    PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $400k · revenue +9%
  • COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT
    2× · 2022–2023 · $385k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • SP
    SEARIDER PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +60%
  • MC
    Metro Christian Church
    one grant, 2022 · $21k
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR NATIVE PACIFIC EDUCATION AND CULTUREgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +107%

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
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
3
Hiikua a Hiialo Cultural Foundation
Arts & Culture
4
Hawaii Education Institute
—
5
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
6
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
7
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
8
Lanikuhonua Cultural Institute
—
9
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
—
10
Malama Kua Aina
Environment
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
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners in Development Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Best Buy Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%13%<5yr14%17%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr18%29%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr14%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%11%<5yr14%17%5–10yr18%4%10–20yr18%19%20–35yr13%2%35–55yr14%48%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%2/54
the rest of the field
13%
693/5,387

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

43 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. 43 of the 53 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
32/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $2,736,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATIONCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT — $384,500 · EducationCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENTHawaii Youth Challenge Foundation — $182,000 · Education+9 more — $222,000 · Education+9 morePARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $400,000 · Community ImprovementPARTNERS IN …Kukolu — $230,000 · Community ImprovementKukoluDERECK SAKAGUCHI FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $155 · Community ImprovementPAPAHANA ALOHAAINA HAWAII — $270,000 · Arts & CulturePAPAHANA AL…THE FOUNDATION FOR AN ENGAGED PACIFIC — $259,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FOUNDAT…NA PUALEI O LIKOLEHUA — $37,000 · Arts & CultureNA PUALEI O…PU'A FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $17,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of Waimanalo — $230,000 · OtherFriends of…Hakipu'u Academy — $130,000 · OtherHakipu'u A…HEARTBEAT MOVEMENT — $33,500 · OtherHEARTBEAT …HFD EXPLORERS — $25,000 · OtherHONOLULU METROPOLITAN FOURSQUARE CHURCH — $25,000 · OtherMakee Pono Lahui — $22,000 · OtherMetro Christian Church — $21,000 · OtherHAWAII PACIFIC ADVISORY GROUP — $20,536 · OtherSEARIDER PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Other+11 more — $49,510 · Other+11 moreEAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION — $332,000 · International+1 more — $600 · InternationalHUI MAHIAI AINA — $118,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $100,000 · EnvironmentHui o Koolaupoko — $52,500 · Environment+1 more — $1,000 · EnvironmentHOOMAU KE OLA — $84,000 · HealthTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER — $5,000 · HealthWAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH & — $3,500 · Health
Education$3,524,500Community Improvement$660,155Arts & Culture$613,000Other$581,546International$332,600Environment$271,500Health$92,500

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $2,736,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT — $384,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION — $332,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetPAPAHANA ALOHAAINA HAWAII — $270,000 over 3y, 83% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR AN ENGAGED PACIFIC — $259,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetKukolu — $230,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetHawaii Youth Challenge Foundation — $182,000 over 6y, 94% of budgetHUI MAHIAI AINA — $118,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKULANIAKEA — $100,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetHOOMAHUA FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetNA PUALEI O LIKOLEHUA — $37,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetKauluwao Inc — $37,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetDERECK SAKAGUCHI FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetPU'A FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetSEARIDER PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetMALAMA HONUA PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC UNIVERSITY — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OAHU — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR NATIVE PACIFIC EDUCATION AND CULTURE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKOA IKE — $5,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUI MALAMA O KE KAI FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAIANAE DISTR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH & — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN SPEAKING OUT — $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAHA PUNANA LEO — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEIKI O KA 'AINA PRESCHOOL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST — $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDefense Orientation Conference Association — $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVE HAWAIIAN ORGANIZATIONS ASSOC — $155 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEST BUY FOUNDATION — $10 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Estat…Aloha United Way IncCentral Pacific Bank …The Harry and Jeanett…The Queen's Medical C…Tradewind Group Found…Aloha HarvestJ Watumull FundAtherton Family Found…Kaiser Foundation Hea…Friends of Hawaii Cha…Harold Kl Castle Foun…
Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha SchoolsHI34× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Aloha United Way Inc · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Queen's Medical Center · Tradewind Group Foundation · Aloha Harvest · J Watumull Fund · Atherton Family Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc · Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc · Harold Kl Castle 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 Hawaii Pacific Foundation Inc 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%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Pacific University — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report 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

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How do I get to The Hawaii Pacific Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Hawaii Pacific Foundation Inc 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 53 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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