· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +51% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
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,…
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.
Ea ecoversity's mission is to provide culturally-driven learning, training, credentialing, and other long-term societal benefits to ka lahui hawai'i.
To empower hawaiis farming community to enhance food production and distribution through education, collaboration and advocacy.
Maui nui resiliency hui (mnrh) is committed to creating a more resilient and equitable future for maui county by focusing on affordable housing solutions that empower our community members. our mission is to collaborate, educate, and…
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMUA FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PAPAHANA KUAOLA ↗
- Who funds PAEPAE O HE'EIA ↗
- Who funds FRONTERA FARMER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hawaii Seafood Council ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOA AINA O MAKAHA ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hawaii Ag and Culinary Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hawaii Ag and Culinary Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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