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Women's Fund of Hawai'I

To support programs that empower women and girls in hawaii.

$149k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Health$99kHuman Services$96kArts & Culture$75kCrime & Legal$45kYouth Development$45kEducation$40kHousing & Shelter$30kEmployment$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 15 grants below total $133,656 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $148,656 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,000 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE GROWING OHANA$10,000
DYNAMIC HEALING CENTER$10,000
MOLOKAI AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALLIANCE$10,000
EVERMORE (HAWAII CHAPTER)$10,000
MANA WAHINE PRODUCTIONS$10,000
WISDOM CIRCLES OCEANIA$10,000
WAHINE FREELANCE ALLIANCE$10,000
HE HO'OMAKA HOU ANA O PUNA$10,000
MAUI FARMER NETWORK$10,000
HULA PRESERVATION SOCIETY$10,000
AHA KUKUI O MOLOKAI$9,416
ALA HAWAII GIRLS STATE FOUNDATION$7,000
HONPA HONGWANJI HAWAII BETSUIN$6,000
AERIAL ARTS HAWAII LLC$5,800
WOMEN SPEAK OUT$5,440
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SAMARITIAN COUNSELING CENTER HAWAII: $10k → 9%SAMARITIAN COUNSELING CENTER HAWAII: $7k → 9%SECOND HELPINGS: $9k → 9%KALAUOKEKAHULI: $10k → 9%WOMEN IN NEED: $9k → 9%WOMEN IN NEED: $8k → 9%ALOHA DIAPER BANK: $10k → 9%US VETS - BARBER'S POINT: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

17%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$112k · 6 repeat orgs$544k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
32

Total granted

$112k
$430k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+20%

Still filing today

100%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • WC
    WISDOM CIRCLES OCEANIA
    2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +205%
  • GH
    GOING HOME HAWAII
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +105%
  • MN
    MALAMA NA MAKUA A KEIKI INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $18k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • V5
    VARIOUS 5000 OR LESS
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • HM
    HEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTHY BABIES COALITION OF HAWAIIgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $23k · revenue +195%
  • PB
    PACIFIC BIRTH COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2023 · $21k

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

04Your 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
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
2
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
3
Hawaii Family Law Clinic

To assist victims of domestic violence to attain safety, peace and healing through a continuum of services through its partners and collaborators in the community

Crime & Legal
4
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
—
5
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
6
Kamawaelualani Corp

Nonprofit dedicated to community education and culture.

Arts & Culture
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
Hoomau Ke Ola

Ho`omau ke ola provides comprehensive rehabilitation services including residential and outpatient care, treatment, and counseling to persons recovering from problems related to persons with mental and substance abuse disorders. ho`omau ke…

Health
9
Malama Kua Aina
Environment
10
I Ola Lahui Inc

To provide "culturally-minded evidenced-based behavioral health care that is responsive to the needs of the medically underserved, predominantly native hawaiian, and rural communities. the organization provides behavioral health services…

Health
11
Ohana Makamae Inc

Ohana makame inc is a behavioral health agency whose mission is to provide counseling and other related resources to the residents of east maui.

Health
12
Ka Hale Pomaika'i Inc

Ka hale pomaika'i seeks to offer culturally respectful, sober support services including community education, relapse prevention, and sober housing to adults in early recovery from addiction on the island of moloka'i.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Malama Na Makua a Keiki Inc and the most unlike its peers is Women Speaking Out. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%19%<5yr14%21%5–10yr18%7%10–20yr18%41%20–35yr12%7%35–55yr13%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%18%<5yr14%23%5–10yr18%7%10–20yr18%42%20–35yr12%7%35–55yr13%3%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 19% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/50
the rest of the field
13%
856/6,549

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 51 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
25/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VARIOUS 5000 OR LESS — $100,103 · OtherVARIOUS 5000 OR LESSMALAMA NA MAKUA A KEIKI INC — $18,000 · OtherMALAMA NA MAKUA A KEIKI INCKUNOA — $10,000 · OtherGROWING OHANA — $10,000 · OtherTAHIRIH ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · OtherHE HOOMAKA HOUANA O PUNA INC — $10,000 · OtherHAWAII FRIENDS OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE — $10,000 · OtherPROJECT KOA YOGA — $10,000 · OtherPURPLE MAIA FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherHOPE SERVICES HAWAII INC — $10,000 · OtherADULT FRIENDS FOR YOUTH — $10,000 · OtherMA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM — $10,000 · OtherKHM INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 · OtherMaui Farmer Support Network — $10,000 · OtherWORKNET INC — $10,000 · OtherDYNAMIC HEALING CENTER — $10,000 · Other+6 more — $40,000 · Other+6 moreWomen in Need — $17,080 · Human ServicesWomen in NeedSAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER HAWAII — $17,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN COUNSE…ALOHA DIAPER BANK — $10,000 · Human ServicesALOHA DIAPER BAN…UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE — $10,000 · Human ServicesUNITED STATES VE…PACIFIC SURVIVOR CENTER — $10,000 · Human ServicesPACIFIC SURVIVOR…HAWAII STATE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $10,000 · Human ServicesHAWAII STATE COA…KALAUOKEKAHULI — $10,000 · Human ServicesKALAUOKEKAHULISECOND HELPINGS — $8,900 · Human ServicesSECOND HELPINGSWISDOM CIRCLES OCEANIA — $20,000 · Arts & CultureWISDOM CIRC…HOAKA MANA — $10,000 · Arts & CultureHOAKA MANAHANA ARTS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureHANA ARTS I…HULA PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $10,000 · Arts & CultureHULA PRESER…AHA KUKUI O MOLOKAI — $9,416 · Arts & CultureAHA KUKUI O…THE FRIENDS OF THE PALACE THEATER — $5,800 · Arts & CultureTHE FRIENDS…HEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTHY BABIES COALITION OF HAWAII — $23,000 · HealthHEALTHY MOT…PACIFIC BIRTH COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED — $21,135 · HealthPACIFIC BIR…MALAMA PONO HEALTH SERVICES FKA MALAMA PONO-KAUAI AIDS PROJECT — $10,000 · HealthMALAMA PONO…Live-Evermore Inc — $10,000 · HealthLive-Evermo…COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT — $20,000 · EducationCOUNCIL FO…MOLOKAI AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALLIANCE — $20,000 · EducationMOLOKAI AF…Dreamhouse Inc — $10,000 · EducationDreamhouse…MANA MAOLI — $10,000 · EducationMANA MAOLIGOING HOME HAWAII — $20,000 · Crime & LegalPouhana O Na Wahine — $10,000 · Crime & LegalTHE LEGAL CLINIC — $10,000 · Crime & LegalWOMEN SPEAKING OUT — $5,440 · Crime & LegalWAHINE FREELANCE ALLIANCE — $10,000 · Community ImprovementKukolu — $10,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN ART CENTER — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$298,103Human Services$92,980Arts & Culture$65,216Health$64,135Education$60,000Crime & Legal$45,440Community Improvement$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTHY BABIES COALITION OF HAWAII — $23,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPACIFIC BIRTH COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED — $21,135 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISDOM CIRCLES OCEANIA — $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMOLOKAI AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALLIANCE — $20,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetGOING HOME HAWAII — $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMALAMA NA MAKUA A KEIKI INC — $18,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWomen in Need — $17,080 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER HAWAII — $17,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMALAMA PONO HEALTH SERVICES FKA MALAMA PONO-KAUAI AIDS PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetALOHA DIAPER BANK — $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetDreamhouse Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMaui Farmer Support Network — $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetKukolu — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN ART CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLive-Evermore Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetADULT FRIENDS FOR YOUTH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHAWAII FRIENDS OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetPACIFIC SURVIVOR CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetHAWAII STATE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPouhana O Na Wahine — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKHM INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetMANA MAOLI — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOAKA MANA — $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetHANA ARTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE LEGAL CLINIC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetKALAUOKEKAHULI — $10,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetMA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWORKNET INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetHULA PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPURPLE MAIA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE SERVICES HAWAII INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDYNAMIC HEALING CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAHA KUKUI O MOLOKAI — $9,416 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS — $8,900 over 1y, 48% of budgetOAHU RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT — $8,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetALOHA MEDICAL MISSION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE PALACE THEATER — $5,800 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN SPEAKING OUT — $5,440 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

Atherton Family Found…Friends of Hawaii Cha…Aloha United Way IncMcInerny Foundation--Cooke Foundation Limi…J Watumull FundBank of Hawaii Charit…The Harry and Jeanett…Kosasa FoundationCentral Pacific Bank …Hmsa FoundationThe People's Fund
Atherton Family FoundationHI45.6× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atherton Family Foundation · Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc · Aloha United Way Inc · McInerny Foundation-- · Cooke Foundation Limited · J Watumull Fund · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Kosasa Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Hmsa Foundation · The People's Fund

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 Women's Fund of Hawai'I 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your 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
    12report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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