Hawai‘i Data Collaborative

What Hawai‘i Data Collaborative does

Hawai‘i Data Collaborative (HDC) is a Honolulu-based nonprofit founded in 2020 by The Omidyar Group to build data capacity across organizations responding to household need in the state of Hawai‘i. It operates as a statewide data intermediary, partnering with government agencies, nonprofits, educational institutions, and private funders to co-develop sustainable data solutions rather than deliver one-off consulting. Its core products are a suite of free, web-based tools: the Hawai‘i Population Model (HPM), an anonymous statistical model of Hawai‘i households derived from US Census data; the AUW 211 Weekly Requests Dashboard, which surfaces real-time household-need requests by category and geography; the Hawai‘i Data Explorer, a contextualized directory of publicly available data on household well-being; and Hawaii.PolicyMap, a sponsored enterprise mapping platform aggregating over 150 data sources. HDC also provides services covering data strategy, collection, systems, and analysis/reporting, and increasingly engages in statewide data-governance policy work, including 2026 analysis of Act 154.

Hawai‘i Data Collaborative is funded entirely through grants and donations and provides its tools and services at no cost to qualifying partner organizations. Its revenue streams are philanthropic: The Omidyar Group serves as founding backer, with additional program-specific support from The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Hawai‘i Energy, and the Hawai‘i State Department of Health (the latter co-sponsoring the Hawaii.PolicyMap enterprise license). The go-to-market motion is community-led: HDC engages organizations through direct outreach, interviews with community leaders, public panels and webinars, and educational blog content. There is no commercial pricing model; Hawaii.PolicyMap is available free to Hawai‘i-based users through the sponsored enterprise license, and partner services are delivered via multi-year collaborations. The customer base spans human services, food security, housing, education, transportation, and government segments, with no single segment dominant in disclosed activity.

Name

Hawai‘i Data Collaborative

Legal name

Hawai'i Data Collaborative

Website

https://hawaiidata.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Hawai‘i Data Collaborative is a Honolulu-based nonprofit founded in 2020 that builds data capacity and provides free data tools — including the Hawai‘i Population Model, AUW 211 Dashboard, Data Explorer, and Hawaii.PolicyMap — to government, nonprofit, and private-sector organizations responding to household need across Hawai‘i.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nonprofit Data Analytics Services

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Data Virtualization & Federation (HDAEACAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Benchmarking, Ratings & Stakeholder Reporting Portals (Scorecards, Dashboards) (EUABAEAJ), Health Information Exchange & Public Health Data Integration (HLAJAJAD)

Keywords

• Household need data
• Policy mapping tools
• Data capacity building
• Community data visualization
• Nonprofit data services

Headquarters

HQ city

Honolulu

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Grant Funding: Hawai'i Data Collaborative is a nonprofit organization funded through grants and donations. It was founded by The Omideyar Group and receives support from foundations including The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Hawai'i Energy, and the Hawai'i State Department of Health for specific programs like Hawaii.PolicyMap.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Hawai'i Data Collaborative co-develops sustainable data capacity solutions with government, nonprofit, and private sector organizations responding to household need across Hawai'i. It delivers a suite of proprietary web-based data tools—including the Hawai'i Population Model, AUW 211 Weekly Requests Dashboard, Hawai'i Data Explorer, and Hawaii.PolicyMap—alongside consulting services covering data strategy, collection, systems, and analysis/reporting. All services and tools are provided at no cost to qualifying partner organizations.

Product overview

Hawai'i Data Collaborative offers a suite of data tools and services focused on building data capacity for organizations responding to household need in Hawaii. The core products include the Hawaii Population Model (a statistical model for projecting policy impacts), the AUW 211 Weekly Requests Dashboard (real-time household need data), Hawaii Data Explorer (a data directory with context), and Hawaii.PolicyMap (a mapping and visualization platform). Additional services include data strategy, collection, systems, and analysis/reporting. The organization also previously maintained Community Indicators tools (now archived) and supported COVID-19 data resources. The portfolio functions as an integrated ecosystem where tools support each other—PolicyMap provides mapping capabilities while the Hawaii Population Model enables scenario testing for policy decisions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Hawai'i Population Model (HPM): An anonymous estimated representation of all individuals and households in Hawai'i, derived from US Census data using a sophisticated statistical algorithm to generate a responsive model accounting for characteristics including household size, income, age, ethnicity, geography, and occupation.
• Hawai'i Data Explorer
• Hawaii.PolicyMap
• AUW 211 Dashboard

Products and services

• Hawai'i Population Model (HPM) An anonymous estimated representation of all individuals and households in Hawai'i, derived from US Census data using a sophisticated statistical algorithm. Accounts for household size, income, age, ethnicity, geography, and occupation, and is used to project effects of interventions or test scenarios without implementing them in communities. For partner organizations, policymakers, and community leaders.
• AUW 211 Weekly Requests Dashboard Dashboard displaying the number and percentage of 211 requests by category (housing, food, childcare, healthcare, etc.) broken down by gender, age group, and zip code. Data updates weekly to reflect the previous week's requests. For community organizations, policymakers, and the public seeking real-time household need signals.
• Hawai'i Data Explorer A tool connecting users to publicly available data on Hawai'i household well-being. Provides contextual metadata about data sources including who collected, compiled, evaluated, and collaborated on the data. Accommodates targeted questions, broader category searches, and filtering by frequency, availability, age, gender, and race. For policymakers, community leaders, researchers, and the public.
• Hawaii.PolicyMap An intuitive, user-friendly web-based mapping tool enabling users to quickly visualize and understand community circumstances across Hawai'i. Powered by over 150 publicly available and proprietary sources, with standardized data for analysis, custom map building, and data downloads. Free to Hawai'i-based individuals and organizations through sponsored enterprise license.
• Data Strategy Services Co-designing appropriate data system solutions aligned to organization objectives, streamlining data processes in collection, management, analysis, and reporting. For nonprofit, government, and private sector partner organizations.
• Data Collection Services Setting up new data collection systems by understanding purpose, goals, and ecosystem, then co-developing plans and advising on design, tools, and formats. For partner organizations needing data infrastructure.
• Data Systems Services Building data systems by understanding organization vision, business model, and pain points to recommend reliable, sustainable solutions that accommodate future innovation and growth. For partner organizations.
• Analysis & Reporting Services Data modeling utilizing past and present data to test scenarios and expose unforeseen effects, customizing the Hawai'i Population Model to fit organizational needs. For partner organizations and policymakers.

Quantifiable outcome

• 42% of Hawai'i households were struggling to get by pre-COVID (ALICE report by Aloha United Way), with an estimated additional 35,000 households facing severe financial hardship by end of 2020.
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and program.

• Aloha United Way (AUW)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAUW is Hawai'i's primary resource helpline for struggling households. HDC partnered with AUW to upgrade the 211 data system and develop the AUW 211 Weekly Requests Dashboard, providing weekly updated metrics on household need across the state. This partnership has evolved into a long-term collaboration to enhance 211 data reporting capabilities.
• Hawaii COVID CollaborativecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHDC partnered with the Hawaii COVID Collaborative to launch COVID Pau, an initiative that synthesizes and translates reliable COVID-19 data and information to empower Hawai'i residents in public health decisions.
• Hawaii Pandemic Applied Modeling (HiPAM)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHiPAM is a group of subject area experts and academics. HDC partnered with HiPAM to elevate their epidemiological modeling insights to decision-makers during the COVID-19 pandemic. HiPAM launched a 14-day forecast tool for new cases, hospitalizations, and fatalities.
• Hawaii State Department of HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHDC partnered with the Hawaii State Department of Health to transform COVID-19 data into easy-to-digest dashboards, supporting the state's pandemic response and public health decision-making.
• Waikiki Community CenterprogramStrategic or Co-development PartnerHDC engaged with Waikiki Community Center to learn about data practices and how data enables their mission-critical operations. WCC employs a simple but effective data strategy that has served them well for over nine years.
• Ko'olau Housing HuiprogramStrategic or Co-development PartnerHDC worked with the Ko'olau Housing Hui, a housing coalition on O'ahu's Windward side, demonstrating how investing in data capacities serves all stakeholders working to address housing security.
• Hawai'i Community CollegeprogramStrategic or Co-development PartnerHDC partnered with Hawai'i Community College to democratize education through data by leveraging existing data and cultivating a data culture that informs decision-making and teaches data literacy to students.
• Hawai'i FoodbankprogramStrategic or Co-development PartnerHawai'i Foodbank, the largest food bank in the state, partnered with HDC to build data capacity to better understand the circumstances of those seeking food assistance and transform how hunger is fought in Hawai'i.
• PolicyMapcoreTechnology or IntegrationHDC sponsors an open-access enterprise license to PolicyMap (Hawaii.PolicyMap), making the mapping and visualization platform available to all Hawai'i-based individuals and organizations free of charge.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Living Cities: Living Cities is a collaborative of foundations, financial institutions, and corporations working on equitable community outcomes through data and cross-sector partnerships. Comparable to HDC for its multi-sector data collaboration approach to addressing household and community need.
• Results for America: Results for America advocates for and builds capacity around data-driven government decision-making, with a strong focus on outcomes for children, families, and low-income populations. It shares HDC's nonprofit intermediation model between funders, governments, and service providers.
• Code for America: Code for America builds civic technology and data tools that modernize government service delivery for vulnerable populations. Like HDC, it operates as a nonprofit data intermediary between government agencies and communities in need, though at a national rather than single-state scale.
• National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP): NNIP is a network of local partners in dozens of cities that build neighborhood-level indicators and data systems for community decision-making. NNIP mirrors HDC's model of empowering local practitioners with curated data tools tailored to their place, making it a strong functional peer.
• PolicyMap: PolicyMap is the web-based mapping and data platform whose HI-specific license HDC sponsors to deliver Hawaii.PolicyMap. As HDC's underlying technology partner in the same data-viz and indicator space, PolicyMap is a direct comparable for product and go-to-market approach.
• Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy (AISP): AISP at the University of Pennsylvania is an interdisciplinary data intermediary that helps states and localities integrate administrative data across health, housing, and human services to inform policy. It is the closest analogue to HDC as a cross-sector data intermediary for household and community well-being.
• What Works Cities (Bloomberg Philanthropies): What Works Cities helps municipal governments use data and evidence to improve services and residents' lives. It is comparable to HDC in mission (data-driven government decision-making) and in operating as a philanthropic capacity-building intermediary rather than a commercial vendor.

Broad incumbents

• Urban Institute: Urban Institute is a large research nonprofit producing evidence on social and economic policy including housing, health, and community well-being. It is broader in scope than HDC but overlaps materially as a data provider for the same household-need policy questions HDC's tools address.

Regional players

• Aloha United Way: Aloha United Way is HDC's flagship data partnership — it operates the 211 helpline whose data underlies the AUW 211 Weekly Requests Dashboard. Comparable as a community data ecosystem player specifically serving Hawaii household need, though its mission is direct service rather than data intermediation.

Emerging players

• Data Quality Campaign: Data Quality Campaign advocates for the effective use of data to improve student outcomes, with a focus on data governance, linkage, and use at the state level. It overlaps with HDC's policy-oriented data work (e.g., Act 154) but operates in K-12 education rather than household well-being broadly.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

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