· Public charity
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…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $288,260 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $318,565 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,305 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $106k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KOKUA FUND | $174,760 |
| LEEWARD CULINARY ARTS | $35,000 |
| IMUA FAMILY SERVICES | $26,000 |
| UH FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE CULINARY PROGRAMS | $25,000 |
| HAWAII AG FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DC CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $262k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2023 · $647k · revenue +56%
- HAHAWAII AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $376k · revenue +129%
- IFIMUA FAMILY SERVICES6× · 2017–2024 · $251k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- KRKOKUA RESTAURANT WORKER'S FUNDSone grant, 2020 · $147k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMone grant, 2022 · $85k
- FFFRONTERA FARMER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
It is our mission at common ground collective to transform maui into a bountiful and productive island that benefits both the real-life settings, and hands-on assistance; we will help to elevate distressed and underprivileged members of…
The hawaii culinary education foundation's mission is to provide hawaiis culinary students and professional access to the best knowledge and exposure to cutting-edge techniques through a variety of programs and educational opportunities…
Ea ecoversity's mission is to provide culturally-driven learning, training, credentialing, and other long-term societal benefits to ka lahui hawai'i.
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.
Kaiaulu initiatives is regreening and rebuilding lahaina one tree and one person at a time through education, training, community networking & sustainability while incorporating hawaiian cultural practices.
Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance: the intrinsic qualities of the lower puna area, native hawaiian wellbeing, and the transmission of intergenerational knowledge and practices in partnership with county, state, government,…
Preservation and growth of Hawaiian Culture and lifestyle practices through education centered around indigenous starches and farming practices. Promoting Aina Momona through various community, lifestyle and educational activities.
To empower hawaiis farming community to enhance food production and distribution through education, collaboration and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Agricultural Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The James Beard Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 23 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMUA FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PAEPAE O HE'EIA ↗
- Who funds FRONTERA FARMER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAPAHANA KUAOLA ↗
- Who funds Hawaii Seafood Council ↗
- Who funds SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds HOA AINA O MAKAHA ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Hawaii Ag and Culinary Alliance 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.
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.
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