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Hawaii Ag and Culinary Alliance

To support programs that promote culinary arts, agriculture, environmental stewardship, culture and education in hawaii by awarding grants to charitable nonprofits that promote culinary arts education, preserve and protect our environment and agricultural lands, raise awareness about environmental stewardship and sustainability, support…

$319k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Itemized grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$288k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$174,760
Organizations funded a year
2 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$3.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Hawaii Ag and Culinary Alliance funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Food & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$288k86%
FY20234$239k0%
FY20225$225k40%
FY20212$45k0%
FY20202$148k50%
FY201910$390k20%
FY20189$363k11%
FY20179$373kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$865kFood & Nutrition$605kPhilanthropy$185kEmployment$157kHealth$155kHuman Services$96kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kEnvironment$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Hawaii Foundation$647,00040%
Hawaii Agricultural Foundation$375,814710%
Imua Family Services$251,00062%
University of Hawaii System$85,0001n/a
Papahana Kuaola$25,00031%
Paepae O He'Eia$25,00031%
Frontera Farmer Foundation$25,000111%
Hawaii Seafood Council$15,00032%
The DC Central Kitchen Inc$10,00010%
Hoa Aina O Makaha$7,5001n/a
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All grantees of Hawaii Ag and Culinary Alliance by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Hawaii Foundation$647,00040%
Hawaii Agricultural Foundation$375,814710%
Imua Family Services$251,00062%
University of Hawaii System$85,0001n/a
Papahana Kuaola$25,00031%
Paepae O He'Eia$25,00031%
Frontera Farmer Foundation$25,000111%
Hawaii Seafood Council$15,00032%
The DC Central Kitchen Inc$10,00010%
Hoa Aina O Makaha$7,5001n/a
The James Beard Foundation Inc$7,50010%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($596k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hawaii Ag and Culinary Alliance supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Hawaii Foundation: $647,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHawaii Agricultural Foundation: $375,814 over 7y, 9.7% of budgetImua Family Services: $251,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetPapahana Kuaola: $25,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPaepae O He'Eia: $25,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFrontera Farmer Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHawaii Seafood Council: $15,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetThe DC Central Kitchen Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe James Beard Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha SchoolsHI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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Find your warmest path to Hawaii Ag and Culinary Alliance 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.

About Hawaii Ag and Culinary Alliance

How much does Hawaii Ag and Culinary Alliance give?
Hawaii Ag and Culinary Alliance reported 7 itemized grants totaling $288,260, out of $318,565 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Hawaii Ag and Culinary Alliance fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (41%), Food & Nutrition (29%), Philanthropy (9%).
Who are Hawaii Ag and Culinary Alliance's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Hawaii Foundation ($647k), Hawaii Agricultural Foundation ($376k), Imua Family Services ($251k).
Does Hawaii Ag and Culinary Alliance fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hawaii Ag and Culinary Alliance?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Hawaii Ag and Culinary Alliance based?
Hawaii Ag and Culinary Alliance is based in HI.

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 23 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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