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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART$200,000
PUNAHOU SCHOOL$200,000
HONOLULU ACADEMY OF ARTS$100,000
MANOA HERITAGE CENTER$50,000
HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL$50,000
HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$30,000
MOLOKAI LAND TRUST$25,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF HAWAII$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$20,000
PARKER SCHOOL$20,000
ULTIMATE HAWAIIAN TRAIL RUN FOUNDATION INC$20,000
HANA ARTS$20,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

+33%
+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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HM
    HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +16%
  • 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%

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%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hanahauoli School; 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.
04the grantee network

165 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
46
Early backer (in before they grew)
164/165
Grantees still filing
105/165
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cooke Foundation Limited funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cooke Foundation Limited. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 192 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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