· Private foundation
Kakatu Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| MSUB | $10,000 |
| MSUB | $10,000 |
| CATALYST | $10,000 |
| PRESCOTT COLLEGE KINO BAY CENTER | $7,000 |
| BILLINGS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| REDTAIL LAND CONSERVANCY | $6,000 |
| FRIEND OF SONOMA VALLEY LIBRARY | $4,500 |
| VINTAGE HOUSE | $4,000 |
| FISH - SONOMA | $4,000 |
| JACK LONDON PARK PARTNERS | $3,500 |
| NORTHMEN DEN YOUTH SERVICES | $3,000 |
| HAWAII FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| NATURE IN THE CLASSROOM | $3,000 |
| ROBYNES NEST | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 21% of Kakatu Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 18% of the giving stays in IN; read by stated purpose it is 11% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k 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
- HSHILLCROFT SERVICES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $59k · revenue +18%
- PLPets Lifeline Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $38k · revenue +114%
- TSTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $28k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FNDTN OF MUNCIE DELAWARone grant, 2020 · $19k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $14k
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MUNCIE INDIANA INCone grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue 0%
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.
By connecting children and families to nature, hnc builds community, creates meaningful change, and shapes a more sustainable future.
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Hawaii island community development corporation was established on july 7, 1986, to provide families with low and moderate income with adequate housing and to acquire, construct and provide housing related activities.
Protecting and promoting the marine biodiversity of Hawai'i through coral restoration, ecological monitoring, regenerative tourism, and cultural integration
To reclaim Hawai'i as a beacon of Aloha for the world by activating our four pillars: (1)Pu'uhonua: Create a safe, welcoming, and culturally-rooted space at our site in Papaauhau where individuals, families, organizations, and groups can…
To preserve the immediate and long-term health and wellbeing of lahaina's diverse communities and precious natural resources.
The mission of Kipuka Kuleana Inc. is to perpetuate ahupuaa (traditional Hawaiian land division) based natural resource management & connection to place through protection and care of cultural landscapes and family lands. Kipuka Kuleana…
Hawaii seafood council (hsc) supports responsible fisheries and sustainable seafood in hawaii for future generations through consumer education, outreach and research. hsc believes that marine fisheries, fishing and seafood are essential…
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.
Embracing our kuleana to protect and preserve hawaii's fragile ecosystems through conservation, culture, and community.
The kuki'o ho'omana fund seeks to uplift and enrich our hawai'i island community through intentional investments in curated local organizations focusing on youth empowerment, affordable housing, environmental preservation, cultural…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward and the most unlike its peers is Robyns Nest Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
44 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. 44 of the 138 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 HILLCROFT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Pets Lifeline Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RED-TAIL LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Sonoma Ecology Center ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds SONOMA COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ACCESSURF HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MUNCIE INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Segerstrom Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CATALYST INC ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS TRAILNET ↗
- Who funds ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE MOUNT BILLINGS ↗
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: Sonoma County Community Foundation · Simon Blattner Family Foundation · Women Giving as One Inc · McNabb Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Sanderson Family Foundation · The Vadasz Family Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Vera C Hendry 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 Kakatu Foundation Inc 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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