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The Laurence H Dorcy Hawaiian Foundation at a glance

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The Laurence H Dorcy Hawaiian Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$325k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$2.2MEnvironment$1.6MArts & Culture$798kHealth$621kFood & Nutrition$593kPhilanthropy$440kHuman Services$265kAnimals$230kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $638k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $325k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAWAII FOOD BANK$325,000
KUPU$100,000
KEALAKAI CENTER FOR PACIFIC STRINGS$50,000
COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN$50,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$43,923
HAWAII ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
WOMEN HELPING WOMEN$25,000
HALE MAHAOLU$25,000
PACIFIC CANCER FOUNDATION$25,000
HUGS FOR HAWAII'S SERIOUSLY ILL --$25,000
HAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVE$25,000
HAWAII INSITUTE FOR MUSIC ENRICHMENT$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
RESOURCES LEGACY FUND$25,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–25, $353k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NAVIAN HAWAII: $15k → 9%MAUI WAENA BAND BOOSTERS: $15k → 9%MAUI WAENA BAND BOOSTERS: $15k → 9%WOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $25k → 9%US VETS: $25k → 9%HOSPICE MAUI INC: $53k → 9%US VETS: $25k → 9%WOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $25k → 9%WOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $25k → 9%WOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $25k → 9%WOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $25k → 9%WOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $25k → 9%HOSPICE MAUI INC: $20k → 9%HOSPICE MAUI INC: $20k → 9%HOSPICE MAUI INC: $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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 40 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
34

Total granted

$6.1M
$688k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
0%

Still filing today

73%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $421k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHealthEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    3× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +132%
  • HF
    HAWAII FOODBANK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $415k · revenue +28%
  • PF
    PACIFIC FLEET SUBMARINE MEMORIAL ASSOC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $205k · revenue +264%

Funded once

  • KL
    Ka Lima O Maui Ltd
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue -11%
  • AO
    ACADEMY OF HAWAIIAN MUSIC --
    one grant, 2022 · $73k
  • HC
    HALEAKALA CONSERVANCY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +563%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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.

1
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
2
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
3
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
4
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
5
Malama Kua Aina
Environment
6
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
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7
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
8
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
9
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
10
Hawaii Maritime Center
—
11
Hiikua a Hiialo Cultural Foundation
Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maui United Way; the most unlike its peers is Kealakai Center for Pacific String Traditions. 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

66 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. 66 of the 92 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/66
Grantees still filing
37/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Native Hawaiian Environmental Science: $1,200,000 · OtherNative Hawaiian Environmental ScienceFRIENDS OF AMY B H GREENWELL: $175,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF AMY B H GREENWELLPACIFIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII: $125,000 · Other+50 more: $1,564,662 · Other+50 moreUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $2,088,584 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION+3 more: $67,000 · EducationPACIFIC FLEET SUBMARINE MEMORIAL ASSOC: $205,000 · Arts & CultureALEXANDER & BALDWIN SUGAR MUSEUM: $95,000 · Arts & CultureKealakai Center For Pacific String Traditions: $75,000 · Arts & CultureKIMOKEO FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMAUI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FRIENDS OF THE D T FLEMING ARBORETUM AT PU'U MAHOE INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $30,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $415,000 · Food & NutritionKAUAI FOOD BANK INC: $60,000 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $20,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $45,000 · Food & NutritionWOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $150,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE MAUI INC: $107,500 · Human ServicesUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $50,000 · Human ServicesMaui Waena Band Boosters: $30,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE HAWAII INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $100,000 · EnvironmentUHIWAI O HALEAKALA: $75,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION COUNCIL FOR HAWAII: $45,000 · EnvironmentHALEAKALA CONSERVANCY INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentRESOURCES LEGACY FUND: $25,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $25,000 · EnvironmentWHEN WE SHINE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Environment+2 more: $15,000 · EnvironmentHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250,000 · PhilanthropyMAUI UNITED WAY: $25,000 · PhilanthropyEDDIE AIKAU FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,214,662Education$2,155,584Arts & Culture$575,000Food & Nutrition$540,000Human Services$352,500Environment$330,000Philanthropy$295,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $2,088,584 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $415,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPACIFIC FLEET SUBMARINE MEMORIAL ASSOC: $205,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetWOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $150,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetPACIFIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 6y, 8.3% of budgetASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII: $125,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetHOSPICE MAUI INC: $107,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetKUPU: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHAWAII ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND: $100,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetALEXANDER & BALDWIN SUGAR MUSEUM: $95,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $93,923 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUHIWAI O HALEAKALA: $75,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetKealakai Center For Pacific String Traditions: $75,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetKa Lima O Maui Ltd: $75,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetKAUAI FOOD BANK INC: $60,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIMOKEO FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetHALE MAHAOLU: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMOLOKAI AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALLIANCE: $45,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetCONSERVATION COUNCIL FOR HAWAII: $45,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetMANA'OLANA PINK PADDLERS: $40,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetMAUI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $40,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetMaui Waena Band Boosters: $30,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE D T FLEMING ARBORETUM AT PU'U MAHOE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 63% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY HAWAII ISLAND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIKAIKA OHANA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAUI AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWHEN WE SHINE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetLANAI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS IN: $20,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetKauai SPCA: $20,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetNA LEO KAKO'O O MAUI INC: $20,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetEDDIE AIKAU FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetHOSPICE HAWAII INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOOD BASKET INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALOHA HARVEST: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON GROUND COLLECTIVE: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHAWAII PET NETWORK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHui O Waa Kaulua: $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetNISEI VETERANS MEMORIAL CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHAKU BALDWIN CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHAWAII ANIMAL KULEANA ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.7% 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC FLEET SUBMARINE MEMORIAL ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN HELPING WOMEN ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE MAUI INC ↗
  • Who funds KUPU ↗
  • Who funds HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds ALEXANDER & BALDWIN SUGAR MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds UHIWAI O HALEAKALA ↗
  • Who funds Kealakai Center For Pacific String Traditions ↗
  • Who funds Ka Lima O Maui Ltd ↗
  • Who funds KAUAI FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds KIMOKEO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HALE MAHAOLU ↗
  • Who funds MOLOKAI AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION COUNCIL FOR HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds MANA'OLANA PINK PADDLERS ↗
  • Who funds MAUI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Maui Waena Band Boosters ↗
  • Who funds MAUI POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE D T FLEMING ARBORETUM AT PU'U MAHOE INC ↗
  • Who funds CARING FOR HAWAII NEONATES ↗

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…Fred Baldwin Memorial…Cooke Foundation Limi…Bank of Hawaii Charit…First Hawaiian Bank F…The Harry and Jeanett…Central Pacific Bank …Aloha United Way IncThe Red Cabin Foundat…Maui United WayTradewind Group Found…J Watumull Fund
Atherton Family FoundationHI53.5× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atherton Family Foundation · Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · The Red Cabin Foundation Trust · Maui United Way · Tradewind Group Foundation · J Watumull Fund

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 Laurence H Dorcy Hawaiian Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Laurence H Dorcy Hawaiian Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%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
    17report 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Laurence H Dorcy Hawaiian Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Laurence H Dorcy Hawaiian Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 92 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-PF 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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