Hawaii · Private foundation
Cooke Foundation Limited
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 70
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Cooke Foundation Limited funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $658k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 50 | $1.4M | 52% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $1.5M | 36% |
| FY2023 | 68 | $1.4M | 53% |
| FY2022 | 70 | $1.5M | 63% |
| FY2021 | 69 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Honolulu Museum of Art | $1,500,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Punahou School | $600,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Manoa Heritage Center Fka Manoa Valley Cultural Heritage Found | $260,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Hanahauoli School | $250,000 | 5 | 1% |
| University of Hawaii Foundation | $173,414 | 4 | 0% |
| Molokai Land Trust | $125,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Hawaii Symphony Orchestra | $120,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Island School | $115,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Diamond Head Theatre | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Ma Ka Hana Ka Ike Building Program | $80,000 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 174 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($224k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cooke Foundation Limited supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 149 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Cooke Foundation Limited
- How much does Cooke Foundation Limited give?
- Cooke Foundation Limited reported 56 grants totaling $1,401,350 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 70 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Cooke Foundation Limited fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (41%), Education (17%), Environment (11%).
- Who are Cooke Foundation Limited's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Honolulu Museum of Art ($1.5M), Punahou School ($600k), Manoa Heritage Center Fka Manoa Valley Cultural Heritage Found ($260k).
- Does Cooke Foundation Limited fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cooke Foundation Limited accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cooke Foundation Limited?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Atherton Family Foundation, Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn, Aloha United Way Inc.
- Where is Cooke Foundation Limited based?
- Cooke Foundation Limited is based in HI.
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