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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.

$20M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$19M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$114MEmployment$871kCommunity Improvement$266kYouth Development$202kFood & Nutrition$125kArts & Culture$6k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $19,568,210, the rows itemized in this filing. The $20,208,422 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $640,212 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $684k
  • $250k+2 grants · $19M
$106,564
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ASSOCIATION OF MOVING IMAGE ARCHIVISTS: $6k → 14%OLD KOLOA REGENERATIVE FARM: $25k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEM: $18.6M → 9%VIBRANT HAWAI'I: $150k → 15%KAUAI ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD: $100k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEM: $17.9M → 9%KAUAI ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD: $100k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII: $14.8M → 9%AWAWA FARMS LLC: $25k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII: $12.6M → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII: $12.2M → 9%University of Hawaii: $11.8M → 9%HAWAII WORKFORCE PIPELINE INC: $175k → 9%University of Hawai'i: $9.8M → 9%HAWAII WORKFORCE PIPELINE INC: $164k → 9%University of Hawaii: $8.5M → 9%HAWAII WORKFORCE PIPELINE INC: $25k → 9%University of Hawai'i: $7.4M → 9%SEEDS OF HONUA: $25k → 9%ADULT FRIENDS FOR YOUTH: $25k → 9%ADULT FRIENDS FOR YOUTH: $25k → 9%AHIKI ACRES LLC: $25k → 9%GOALL LLC: $16k → 9%GAVA GROW LLC: $25k → 9%CULTIVATE HAWAII WORKFORCE COLLABORATIVE LLC: $100k → 9%BIG TREE FARM LLC: $25k → 9%CULTIVATE HAWAII WORKFORCE COLLABORATIVE LLC: $100k → 9%STATE OF HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $265k → 9%STATE OF HAWAII DEPT OF EDUCATION: $258k → 9%STATE OF HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $125k → 9%CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF HAWAII: $107k → 9%HAWAII CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $100k → 9%KUPU: $52k → 9%KUPU: $25k → 9%CENTER FOR TOMORROW'S LEADERS: $25k → 9%CENTER FOR TOMORROW'S LEADERS: $25k → 9%KUPU: $25k → 9%STATE OF HAWAII DEPT OF EDUCATION: $13k → 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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$115M · 8 repeat orgs$528k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$115M
$247k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+147%

Still filing today

63%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $282k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • HW
    HAWAII WORKFORCE PIPELINE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $364k · revenue +345% · 30% of their budget
  • K
    KUPU
    3× · 2023–2025 · $102k · revenue +44%
  • AF
    ADULT FRIENDS FOR YOUTH
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • HC
    HAWAII CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -23%
  • AA
    AHIKI ACRES LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • BT
    BIG TREE FARM LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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
Hawaii Education Institute
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2
Hawaii Island Economic Development Board

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.

Crime & Legal
3
Kapolei Chamber of Commerce

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

Community Improvement
4
Hawaii Island Chamber of Commerce

Assist businesses and promote Hawaii Island.

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5
Cyberhawaii

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…

Science & Tech
6
Hawaii Workforce Funders Collaborative

To strengthen partnerships and systems to provide equitable access to quality, living wage jobs for hawaii residents.

Employment
7
Hawaii Association of Independent Schools

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…

Education
8
Hawaii Workers Center

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.

Education
9
Hawaii Maritime Center
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10
Kukio Hoomana Fund

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…

Philanthropy
11
Huliauapaa

Growing hawaii's communities through culturally based forms of innovative learning, leadership development, and collaborative networking in wahi kupuna stewardship.

Environment
12
Ka Ipu Kukui

Ka ipu kukui fellows is a community based program created to identify and develop young leaders in maui county.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEM: $113,452,899 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEM+13 more: $1,439,664 · OtherHAWAII WORKFORCE PIPELINE INC: $364,045 · EducationKUPU: $102,468 · Youth DevelopmentADULT FRIENDS FOR YOUTH: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTER FOR TOMORROW'S LEADERS: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentVIBRANT HAWAII: $150,000 · Community Improvement
Other$114,892,563Education$364,045Youth Development$202,468Community Improvement$150,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHAWAII WORKFORCE PIPELINE INC: $364,045 over 3y, 30% of budgetKAUAI ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD: $200,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetCHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF HAWAII: $106,564 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetKUPU: $102,468 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetADULT FRIENDS FOR YOUTH: $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCENTER FOR TOMORROW'S LEADERS: $50,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetASSOCIATION OF MOVING IMAGE ARCHIVISTS: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 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 ↗

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.

Harold Kl Castle Foun…Aloha United Way IncThe Harry and Jeanett…Stupski FoundationKaiser Foundation Hea…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Harold Kl Castle FoundationHI17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 University of Hawaii Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from University of Hawaii Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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
    2report 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 19 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 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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