· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| CATALYST | $10,000 |
| MSUB | $10,000 |
| MSUB | $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 |
| FISH - SONOMA | $4,000 |
| VINTAGE HOUSE | $4,000 |
| JACK LONDON PARK PARTNERS | $3,500 |
| PROJECT HAWAII INC | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| NATURE IN THE CLASSROOM | $3,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 21% of Kakatu Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 18% of the giving stays in IN; by stated purpose, 11%.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +19%
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.
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…
How this is measured
44 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. 44 of the 138 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 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 IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Segerstrom Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CATALYST INC ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS TRAILNET ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds EAGLE MOUNT BILLINGS ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kakatu Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kakatu Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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