· Public charity
University of Hawaii Foundation
To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'I's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'I and our future generations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $19,568,210 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $20,208,422 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $640,212 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $684k
- $250k+2 grants · $19M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEM | $18,594,524 |
| STATE OF HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION | $265,000 |
| HAWAII WORKFORCE PIPELINE INC | $174,654 |
| VIBRANT HAWAI'I | $150,000 |
| CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF HAWAII | $106,564 |
| CULTIVATE HAWAII WORKFORCE COLLABORATIVE LLC | $100,000 |
| KAUAI ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD | $100,000 |
| KUPU | $52,468 |
| SEEDS OF HONUA | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $282k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HWHAWAII WORKFORCE PIPELINE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $364k · revenue +345% · 30% of their budget
- KKUPU3× · 2023–2025 · $102k · revenue +37%
- AFADULT FRIENDS FOR YOUTH2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- HCHAWAII CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -23%
- BTBIG TREE FARM LLCone grant, 2023 · $25k
- AAAHIKI ACRES LLCone grant, 2023 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide and promote private sector support and expertise for balanced growth in hawai'i county in partnership with federal, state, county and private resources.
To promote the commerce and industry of the city of kapolei and the state of hawaii and represent and advocate the interest of merchants, business owners, and industries of the kapolei community and state of hawaii
Cyberhawaii, an affiliate of cyberusa, is committed to creating a whole of community approach that expands awareness and educates about cyber risks and the need to be vigilant. it supports the development of educational and workforce…
Assist businesses and promote Hawaii Island.
The hawai'i association of independent schools (hais) advocates on behalf of independent education in hawaii, provides services that strengthen individual schools and engages them to achieve educational quality and excellence for all…
To strengthen partnerships and systems to provide equitable access to quality, living wage jobs for hawaii residents.
The hawaii workers center envisions a hawaii in which all workers are empowered to exercise their right to organize for their social, economic and political well-being.
The kuki'o ho'omana fund seeks to uplift and enrich our hawai'i island community through intentional investments in curated local organizations focusing on youth empowerment, affordable housing, environmental preservation, cultural…
To educate, train and disseminate information
Ka ipu kukui fellows is a community based program created to identify and develop young leaders in maui county.
Growing hawaii's communities through culturally based forms of innovative learning, leadership development, and collaborative networking in wahi kupuna stewardship.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii and the most unlike its peers is Association of Moving Image Archivists. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 19 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds HAWAII WORKFORCE PIPELINE INC ↗
- Who funds KAUAI ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD ↗
- Who funds VIBRANT HAWAII ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds KUPU ↗
- Who funds HAWAII CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADULT FRIENDS FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TOMORROW'S LEADERS ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF MOVING IMAGE ARCHIVISTS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Harold Kl Castle Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Stupski Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 University of Hawaii Foundation 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.
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.