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The Ohana East Foundation at a glance

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The Ohana East Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$146k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$262kFood & Nutrition$122kHousing & Shelter$88kHealth$59kEducation$29kPublic Safety & Disaster$21kHuman Services$20kRecreation & Sports$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
$7,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BELOVED ASHEVILLE$25,000
BARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC$15,000
POSADA$15,000
CHARLESTON WATERKEEPER$15,000
BEE CAUSE PROJECT INC$10,000
MANNA FOOD BANK$10,000
LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC$7,500
LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC$7,500
CARE AND SHARE INC$7,500
ARKANSAS RIVER WATERSHED COLLABORATIVE$7,500
MY SISTERS HOUSE INC$5,000
OYSTER SOUTH COMPANY$5,000
PUEBLO RAPE CRISIS SERVICES INC$5,000
NATURE AND WILDLIFE DISCOVERY CENTER$5,000
FIELDS TO FAMILIES$4,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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%TEACHERS SUPPLY CLOSET: $6k → 12%TEACHERS SUPPLY CLOSET: $5k → 12%TEACHERS SUPPLY CLOSET: $5k → 12%MY SISTERS HOUSE INC: $5k → 12%TEACHERS SUPPLY CLOSET: $4k → 12%TEACHERS SUPPLY CLOSET: $3k → 12%TEACHERS SUPPLY CLOSET: $2k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON PROGRAMS OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $5k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON PROGRAMS OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $5k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON PROGRAMS OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $1k → 12%RESPITE CARE OF CHARLESTON: $250 → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

OR
CA
CO
NC
SC
DC
HI
GA
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$580k · 25 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
14

Total granted

$580k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+45%

Still filing today

96%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
EnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TB
    THE BEE CAUSE PROJECT INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +215%
  • CW
    CHARLESTON WATERKEEPER
    6× · 2019–2024 · $65k · revenue +261%
  • P
    POSADA
    6× · 2019–2024 · $53k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • SI
    SAN ISABEL LAND PROTECTION TRUST
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -7%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • GA
    GRID ALTERNATIVES COLORADO INC
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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
Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment
2
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
3
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
4
Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

Environment
5
Conservation Legacy

Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…

Youth Development
6
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
7
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy

Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.

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8
Mesa County Land Conservancy Inc

To protect and enhance agricultural land, wildlife habitat and scenic lands in western colorado to benefit the community at large, enrich lives, and provide opportunities for outdoor recreation for future generations.

Environment
9
Aspen Valley Land Trust

Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.

Environment
10
Conservation Colorado

Our work secures policies and elevates leaders that advance climate action and environmental justice. we help them do it, and hold them to it. we work for a colorado where every community can breathe clean air, drink clean water, protect…

Civil Rights
11
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
12
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lowcountry Land Trust Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Institute for Environmental Solutions. 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

37 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. 37 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/37
Grantees still filing
25/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHARLESTON WATERKEEPER: $65,000 · EnvironmentCHARLESTON WATERKEEPERLOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC: $32,500 · EnvironmentLOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INCSouth Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc: $25,000 · EnvironmentSouth Carolina Coastal Conserva…NATURE AND WILDLIFE DISCOVERY CENTER: $20,500 · EnvironmentNATURE AND WILDLIFE DISCOVERY C…ARKANSAS RIVER WATERSHED COLLABORATIVE: $15,000 · EnvironmentARKANSAS RIVER WATERSHED COLLAB…THE COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUB: $13,500 · EnvironmentTHE COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUB+4 more: $8,621 · EnvironmentLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $36,750 · OtherLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INCAMERICAN RED CROSS - COASTAL SOUTH CAROLINA CHAPTE: $12,500 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS - COA…THE INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS: $9,000 · OtherTHE INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRO…Pueblo Rescue Mission: $8,000 · OtherPueblo Rescue MissionSAN ISABEL LAND PROTECTION TRUST: $5,000 · OtherCharleston Moves: $15,075 · OtherCharleston MovesLowcountry Local First: $13,000 · OtherLowcountry Local FirstHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDAT…XERCES SOCIETY INC: $8,000 · OtherXERCES SOCIETY INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $6,098 · Other+8 more: $17,746 · Other+8 morePOSADA: $52,500 · Housing & ShelterPOSADABELOVED ASHEVILLE: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterBELOVED ASHEV…THE BEE CAUSE PROJECT INC: $67,500 · EducationTHE BEE CAUS…BICYCLE COLORADO: $4,500 · EducationBICYCLE COLO…Care and Share Inc: $41,623 · Food & NutritionCare and Sha…OYSTER SOUTH COMPANY: $19,000 · Food & NutritionOYSTER SOUTH…MANNA FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionMANNA FOOD B…BARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC: $50,000 · HealthBARRIER IS…Pueblo Rape Crisis Services Inc: $9,000 · HealthPueblo Rap…TEACHERS SUPPLY CLOSET: $24,384 · Human ServicesTEACHERS …FIELDS TO FAMILIES: $11,552 · Human ServicesFIELDS TO…Florence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina Inc: $11,100 · Human ServicesFlorence …My Sister's House Inc: $9,000 · Human ServicesMy Sister…+1 more: $250 · Human Services
Environment$180,121Other$141,169Housing & Shelter$77,500Education$72,000Food & Nutrition$70,623Health$59,000Human Services$56,286

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 budgetTHE BEE CAUSE PROJECT INC: $67,500 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetCHARLESTON WATERKEEPER: $65,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetPOSADA: $52,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCare and Share Inc: $41,623 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $36,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC: $32,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBELOVED ASHEVILLE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSouth Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTEACHERS SUPPLY CLOSET: $24,384 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetNATURE AND WILDLIFE DISCOVERY CENTER: $20,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetOYSTER SOUTH COMPANY: $19,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetCharleston Moves: $15,075 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetARKANSAS RIVER WATERSHED COLLABORATIVE: $15,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUB: $13,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLowcountry Local First: $13,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFIELDS TO FAMILIES: $11,552 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetFlorence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina Inc: $11,100 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS: $9,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetMy Sister's House Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPueblo Rape Crisis Services Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPueblo Rescue Mission: $8,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetXERCES SOCIETY INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $6,098 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ISABEL LAND PROTECTION TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBICYCLE COLORADO: $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGRID ALTERNATIVES COLORADO INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHRIVE SC: $2,500 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $2,374 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $1,873 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO YOUTH CORPS ASSOCIATION: $1,873 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo County: $1,873 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $1,374 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESPITE CARE OF CHARLESTON: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Coastal Community Fou…The Joanna FoundationThe Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Pathfinder Foundation…Henry & Sylvia Yaschi…The Colorado Health F…United Way of Pueblo …Post and Courier Foun…Advanced Technology I…Robert Hoag Rawlings …Caring for Colorado C…
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC31.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Joanna Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Pathfinder Foundation Inc · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · The Colorado Health Foundation · United Way of Pueblo County Colorado Inc · Post and Courier Foundation · Advanced Technology International · Robert Hoag Rawlings Foundation · Caring for Colorado Centennial 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 Ohana East Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ohana East Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
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 →median 22%
  • Xerces Society Inc: 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report 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.

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 42 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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