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Cooke Foundation Limited

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Arts & Culture$3.1MEducation$1.3MEnvironment$838kYouth Development$342kFood & Nutrition$341kHuman Services$336kHealth$256kHousing & Shelter$223kOther$0
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k44 grants · $766k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $600k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PUNAHOU SCHOOL$200,000
HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART$200,000
HONOLULU ACADEMY OF ARTS$100,000
HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL$50,000
MANOA HERITAGE CENTER$50,000
HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$30,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF HAWAII$25,000
MOLOKAI LAND TRUST$25,000
HAWAII FOODBANK$20,000
808 CLEANUPS$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$20,000
PARKER SCHOOL$20,000
YOUNG OF HEART WORKSHOP$20,000
MA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM$20,000
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 (FY21–25, $329k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $20k → 17%CAMP ANUENUE CORPORATION: $5k → 14%HOSPICE OF HILO: $20k → 15%MAUI FAMILY YMCA: $18k → 9%MAUI DAY CARE CENTER FOR SENIOR CITIZENS AND DISABLED: $5k → 9%KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $20k → 9%NORTH HAWAII HOSPICE INC: $50k → 15%HALE HALAWAI OHANA O HANALEI: $10k → 9%HALE HALAWAI OHANA O HANALEI: $10k → 9%SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER HAWAII: $5k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $20k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $10k → 9%SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $20k → 9%SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 9%WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $20k → 9%ALOHA DIAPER BANK: $10k → 9%CENTER FOR ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION: $5k → 9%HAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW & ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $20k → 9%THINKTECH HAWAII: $15k → 9%THINKTECH HAWAII INC: $5k → 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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.6M · 69 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

69 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
95

Total granted

$5.6M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+11%

Still filing today

94%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $351k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • PS
    PUNAHOU SCHOOL
    2× · 2024–2025 · $600k · revenue +9%
  • MH
    MANOA HERITAGE CENTER FKA MANOA VALLEY CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUND
    5× · 2021–2025 · $260k · revenue +41%
  • HS
    HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $250k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • KK
    KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES
    one grant, 2021 · $67k · revenue +14%
  • AI
    AWAIAULU INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -18%
  • NH
    NORTH HAWAII HOSPICE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -9%

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
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
2
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
3
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
4
Hui Aloha Kiholo

Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance the cultural and natural landscape of the kiholo bay area through collaborative management and active community stewardship.

Arts & Culture
5
Papahana Kuaola

Papahana kuaola's mission is to create quality educational programs focused on environmental restoration and economic sustainability fully integrated with hawaiian knowledge in order to exemplify a lifestyle respectful of kanaka, `aina,…

Environment
6
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
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7
Hawaii Education Institute
—
8
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
9
Hui Malama I Ke Ala Ulili

To re-establish the systems that sustain our community through educational initiatives and land-based practices that cultivate abundance, regenerate responsibilities, and promote collective health and well being.

Community Improvement
10
Hiikua a Hiialo Cultural Foundation
Arts & Culture
11
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
12
Huliauapaa

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

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hanahauoli School and the most unlike its peers is Acton Digital Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent Schools HawaiiCommunity Health CentersHawaii Community & Cultural…Hawaiian Cultural & Environ…Senior & Disability Adult D…Hawaii Food SecurityHawaii Business & Cultural …Family & Community Support …Residential Community Assoc…Affordable Housing ProvidersHawaiian Culture & Communit…Hawaii Healthcare SystemsDisability Employment & Sup…Hawaii-Based Philanthropic …Hawaii Environmental Conser…Native Hawaiian Cultural St…Behavioral Health & Addicti…Hawaii Performing Arts Orga…Youth and Family Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%3%<5yr15%8%5–10yr18%21%10–20yr18%29%20–35yr12%20%35–55yr12%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%1%<5yr15%3%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr12%12%35–55yr12%49%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/176
the rest of the field
14%
1,072/7,923

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

165 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. 165 of the 192 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
45
Early backer (in before they grew)
164/165
Grantees still filing
104/165
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART — $1,500,000 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ARTMANOA HERITAGE CENTER FKA MANOA VALLEY CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUND — $260,000 · Arts & CultureMANOA HERITAGE CENTER FKA MANOA VALLEY CUL…HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $120,000 · Arts & Culture+30 more — $915,652 · Arts & Culture+30 moreHANAHAUOLI SCHOOL — $250,000 · OtherHANAHAUOLI SCHOOLTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $155,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYDIAMOND HEAD THEATRE — $100,000 · Other+87 more — $1,788,623 · Other+87 morePUNAHOU SCHOOL — $600,000 · EducationPUNAHOU SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $173,414 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF H…ISLAND SCHOOL — $115,000 · EducationISLAND SCHOOL+14 more — $159,000 · Education+14 moreMOLOKAI LAND TRUST — $125,000 · EnvironmentMOLOKAI L…FRIENDS OF AMY B H GREENWELL ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN — $66,100 · EnvironmentFRIENDS O…808 CLEANUPS — $60,000 · Environment808 CLEAN…MALAMA KAUAI — $58,000 · EnvironmentMALAMA KA…MERWIN CONSERVANCY INC — $53,531 · EnvironmentMERWIN CO…THE NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $43,500 · EnvironmentTHE NORTH…HAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE — $37,000 · EnvironmentHAWAII IN…MALAMA MAUNALUA — $35,000 · EnvironmentMALAMA MA…RE-USE HAWAII — $30,000 · Environment+7 more — $104,300 · Environment+7 moreNORTH HAWAII HOSPICE INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesHO'OLA NA PUA — $40,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII — $30,000 · Human ServicesSUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER — $26,000 · Human ServicesKAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHINKTECH HAWAII INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesHAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE — $20,000 · Human ServicesHale Halawai Ohana O Hanalei — $20,000 · Human ServicesAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII — $20,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF HILO — $20,000 · Human ServicesFEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER — $20,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS WHO CODE INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesMAUI FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $18,000 · Human ServicesWAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER — $15,000 · Human Services+5 more — $29,500 · Human ServicesMA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM — $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentKUPU — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentULTIMATE HAWAIIAN TRAIL RUN FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentHamakua Youth Foundation Inc — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentADULT FRIENDS FOR YOUTH — $19,870 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE BIG ISLAND — $10,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $5,400 · Youth DevelopmentKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES — $67,000 · HealthPARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER — $25,000 · HealthANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC — $24,000 · HealthMOLOKAI OHANA HEALTH CARE INC — $20,000 · HealthUVSC — $15,500 · HealthKIDS HURT TOO HAWAII — $15,000 · HealthMAUI AIDS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF BIG ISLAND DRUG COURT — $8,400 · Health+1 more — $5,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$2,795,652Other$2,293,623Education$1,047,414Environment$612,431Human Services$368,500Youth Development$205,270Health$189,900

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 budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART — $1,500,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL — $600,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMANOA HERITAGE CENTER FKA MANOA VALLEY CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUND — $260,000 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetHANAHAUOLI SCHOOL — $250,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $173,414 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $155,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOLOKAI LAND TRUST — $125,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $120,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetISLAND SCHOOL — $115,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDIAMOND HEAD THEATRE — $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM — $80,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetHAWAII OPERA THEATRE — $80,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHonolulu Civil Beat Inc — $80,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES — $67,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF AMY B H GREENWELL ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN — $66,100 over 2y, 25% of budget808 CLEANUPS — $60,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetHANA ARTS INC — $60,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC — $59,939 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMALAMA KAUAI — $58,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSTORYBOOK THEATRE OF HAWAII — $55,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetMERWIN CONSERVANCY INC — $53,531 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetYOUNG OF HEART WORKSHOP — $53,200 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetAWAIAULU INC — $50,140 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetNORTH KOHALA COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER — $50,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetNORTH HAWAII HOSPICE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPAI FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPALAMA SETTLEMENT — $45,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC HAWAII — $45,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetTHE NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $43,500 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII — $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKAUAI FOOD BANK INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetDOWNTOWN ART CENTER — $40,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetRESIDENTIAL YOUTH SERVICES & EMPOWERMENT — $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKUPU — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetALOHA HARVEST — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA — $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH — $40,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetALOHA KUAMO'O' AINA — $38,082 over 2y, 32% of budgetPURPLE MAIA FOUNDATION — $38,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHAWAII INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC AGRICULTURE — $37,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMALAMA NA MAKUA A KEIKI INC — $36,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMALAMA MAUNALUA — $35,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHawaii Youth Opera Chorus — $30,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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…Bank of Hawaii Charit…Aloha United Way IncJ Watumull FundMcInerny Foundation--Kosasa FoundationCentral Pacific Bank …Fred Baldwin Memorial…First Hawaiian Bank F…The Clarence Tc Ching…The Harry and Jeanett…Tradewind Group Found…
Atherton Family FoundationHI208× affinity110 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atherton Family Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Aloha United Way Inc · J Watumull Fund · McInerny Foundation-- · Kosasa Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · The Clarence Tc Ching Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Tradewind Group 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 Cooke Foundation Limited 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%5%19%42%75%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
    53report 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Cooke Foundation Limited?

    Find your warmest path to Cooke Foundation Limited through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 192 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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