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· Private foundation
Ward Village Foundation
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$60k
Granted FY2021
5
Grants
1
Communities
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2021.
Philanthropy$100kHealth$60kEducation$30kFood & Nutrition$20kArts & Culture$15kEnvironment$10kOther$20k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
education
2021
care
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2021 · 5 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- Aloha Harvest$20,000
- Ho'okua'aina$10,000
- Hawaii Health and Harm Reduction$10,000
- Trees for Honolulu's Future$10,000
- Waikiki Health$10,000
02The need
04
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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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
Kuakini Medical Center
The mission of kuakini medical center is to improve the health status of the community by: providing comprehensive health care services and programs at reasonable cost; continuously improving the quality of health care services and…
Health
2
Queen's North Hawaii Community Hospital
Acute care hospital with the mission to to improve health and wellness of the people of north hawaii.
Health
3
Waimanalo Health Center
Waimanalo health center is committed to providing the highest level of primary and preventive health services, with special attention to the needs of native hawaiians and the medically underserved, and improving the health and wellness of…
Health
4
Hawaii Public Radio
To provide non-commercial, cultural and informational programming to the state of hawaii, the nation and international community.
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5
Hawaii Pacific University
Hpu is an international learning community set in the rich cultural context of hawaii. our innovative programs prepare our graduates as active members of a global society.
Education
6
Hui Hoolana
Create a self-sustaining facility that supports educational programs and native hawaiian reforestation projects.
Arts & Culture
7
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
Human Services
8
Hawaii Health Information Exchange
Hawai'i health information exchange is the state's designated entity for health data exchange. we provide the technology, technical expertise, and governance that enables health care providers and stakeholders to share and access complete…
Public Benefit
9
Hawaii Maritime Center
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10
Hamakua Health Center Inc
To achieve an extraordinary, comprehensive primary health care experience which exceeds expectation.
Health
11
Hui Malama Ola Na Oiwi
Hui malama ola na 'oiwi is a community-based native hawaiian health care system whose mission is to improve the provision of comprehensive disease prevention, health promotion, and primary care services on hawaii island.
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12
Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden
To maintain for public use, a botanical and zoological garden; to preserve and study native hawaiian and exotic flora and fauna in a natural garden setting.
Environment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Queen's Medical Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Philanthropy$100,000Health$60,000Education$30,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Other$20,000Arts & Culture$15,000Environment$10,000
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.
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.
Aloha United Way IncHI15.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Aloha United Way Inc · Atherton Family Foundation · First Insurance Company · McInerny Foundation-- · Kosasa Foundation · J Watumull Fund · 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 organisation Ward Village 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Trees for Honolulu's Future.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 814639152 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Trees for Honolulu's Future, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 7% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Ward Village Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Ward Village Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines