How much does Kosasa Foundation give?

Kosasa Foundation reported 84 grants totaling $5,190,270 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 83 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Kosasa Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (17%), Education (15%), Arts & Culture (15%).

Who are Kosasa Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Kuakini Medical Center ($2.5M), Mid-Pacific Institute ($1.2M), Dynamic Community Solutions ($1.0M).

Does Kosasa Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Kosasa Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Kosasa Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Atherton Family Foundation, J Watumull Fund, McInerny Foundation--.

Where is Kosasa Foundation based?

Kosasa Foundation is based in HI.

Foundation Dossiers

Hawaii · Private foundation

Kosasa Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 84
Grants FY2024: 81
Organizations funded FY2023: 33%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $45,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $500,000
Organizations funded a year: 55 to 83; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 3
Total assets, FY2024: $159M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Kosasa Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	81	$4.9M	42%
FY2023	81	$6.0M	33%
FY2022	83	$6.7M	31%
FY2021	69	$5.5M	43%
FY2020	55	$2.5M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$4.5MEducation$3.9MArts & Culture$3.8MPhilanthropy$2.2MHuman Services$2.0MEnvironment$1.7MYouth Development$1.3MHousing & Shelter$1.1MOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Kuakini Medical Center	$2,500,000	4	1%
Mid-Pacific Institute	$1,225,000	4	2%
Dynamic Community Solutions	$1,000,000	1	19%
Young Men's Christian Association of Honolulu	$925,000	4	1%
University of Hawaii Foundation	$675,000	3	0%
Blood Bank of Hawaii	$500,000	1	3%
Japanese American National Museum	$500,000	2	3%
Hawaiian Community Assets Inc	$500,000	1	10%
Hawaii Public Television Foundation Dba Pbs Hawaii	$400,000	4	1%
Waianae Community Re-Development Corporation	$399,714	4	2%

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All grantees of Kosasa Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Kuakini Medical Center	$2,500,000	4	1%
Mid-Pacific Institute	$1,225,000	4	2%
Dynamic Community Solutions	$1,000,000	1	19%
Young Men's Christian Association of Honolulu	$925,000	4	1%
University of Hawaii Foundation	$675,000	3	0%
Blood Bank of Hawaii	$500,000	1	3%
Japanese American National Museum	$500,000	2	3%
Hawaiian Community Assets Inc	$500,000	1	10%
Hawaii Public Television Foundation Dba Pbs Hawaii	$400,000	4	1%
Waianae Community Re-Development Corporation	$399,714	4	2%
Ho'Ola Na Pua	$375,000	5	2%
Hawaii Symphony Orchestra	$351,347	5	4%
The Koloa Early School	$350,000	1	41%
Realize Impact	$300,000	1	2%
Hawaiian Islands Land Trust	$290,000	3	4%
Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation	$250,000	3	9%
The Mediation Center of the Pacific Inc	$250,000	5	5%
Imua Family Services	$250,000	3	3%
Hawaiian Humane Society	$250,000	1	1%
Hawaii Foodbank Inc	$230,000	5	0%
Hawaii Cord Blood Bank	$225,000	3	16%
Mental Health Association in Hawaii	$220,000	4	11%
Kupu	$220,000	4	1%
Adult Friends for Youth	$200,000	2	7%
Institute for Native Pacific Education and Culture	$200,000	1	2%
Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services	$200,000	2	0%
Maui Hui Malama	$200,000	2	21%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Maui Inc	$200,000	2	3%
Re-Use Hawaii	$185,000	4	3%
Purple Maia Foundation	$182,821	2	2%
808 Cleanups	$175,000	4	21%
Island School	$175,000	4	1%
Effective Planning & Innovative Communication Inc	$174,786	2	2%
Partners in Development Foundation	$162,995	2	1%
Hawaii Youth Symphony Association	$155,000	4	4%
Goodwill Industries of Hawaii Inc	$150,000	2	0%
Sacred Hearts Academy	$150,000	3	n/a
Bishop Museum	$150,000	3	0%
The Kohala Center	$150,000	2	3%
Teach for America Inc	$150,000	3	0%
The Food Basket Inc	$150,000	2	1%
Hawaii Theatre Center	$140,000	4	1%
Friends of the Future	$130,000	5	1%
Diamond Head Theatre	$125,000	1	3%
Hawaii Public Radio	$115,000	5	0%
Special Olympics Hawaii Inc	$105,000	2	3%
Aloha Harvest	$105,000	5	0%
Pu'A Foundation	$100,000	1	22%
Waikiki Business Improvement District Association	$100,000	1	3%
Patch (People Attentive to Children)	$100,000	1	3%
Hui Malama O Ke Kai Foundation	$100,000	5	3%
Maryknoll Schools	$100,000	1	n/a
Aloha Medical Mission	$100,000	1	11%
Helping Hands Hawaii	$100,000	4	2%
Residential Youth Services & Empowerment	$100,000	1	2%
Malama Maunalua	$100,000	1	4%
Hawaii International Film Festival	$90,000	5	2%
The Coral Reef Alliance	$85,000	2	1%
Hana Arts Inc	$85,000	5	5%
Chaminade University of Honolulu	$85,000	4	0%
Girl Scouts of Hawaii	$80,000	3	1%
Manoa Heritage Center Fka Manoa Valley Cultural Heritage Found	$75,000	3	4%
Friends of Waipahu High School	$75,000	2	9%
Kealakai Center For Pacific String Traditions	$75,000	2	23%
Lawakua Charitable Fund	$75,000	3	5%
Maui Food Bank Inc	$75,000	1	1%
Honolulu Museum of Art	$75,000	2	0%
Oahu Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Anim	$75,000	2	2%
Sustainable Coastlines Hawai'I	$72,500	1	7%
Visitor Aloha Society of Hawai'I	$70,000	4	5%
Lanakila Pacific	$70,000	1	1%
Chamber Music Hawaii	$70,000	5	8%
Alliance for Drama Education	$68,000	3	15%
Hoa Aina O Makaha	$65,000	3	5%
Palama Settlement	$65,000	4	1%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Hawaii	$65,000	4	1%
Dreamhouse Inc	$60,000	3	16%
Honolulu Civil Beat Inc	$60,000	4	0%
Hawaii Environmental Restoration	$60,000	3	44%
Hui o Koolaupoko	$55,000	1	23%
Big Island RC&D	$50,000	1	11%
Maui Arts & Cultural Center	$50,000	4	0%
Ma Ka Hana Ka Ike Building Program	$50,000	1	1%
Hawaii Pacific University	$50,000	1	0%
Kamp Hawaii Inc	$50,000	1	17%
Friends of Amy B H Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden	$50,000	1	7%
Project Vision Hawaii	$50,000	1	0%
Hawai'i Pacific Health	$50,000	1	0%
Ka Lima O Maui Ltd	$50,000	1	1%
Kahilu Theatre Foundation	$50,000	2	2%
National Tropical Botanical Garden	$49,388	1	0%
Impact Change Hawaii	$47,967	1	14%
Seeqs Foundation	$45,000	1	25%
Island Pacific Academy Inc	$45,000	3	0%
Kalaeloa Heritage and Legacy Foundation	$45,000	1	n/a
Kona Historical Society	$41,956	1	9%
Waikiki Health	$40,000	4	0%
Nisei Veterans Legacy Center Inc	$40,000	2	62%
Hui No'Eau	$40,000	2	1%
Big Brothers Big Sisters Hawaii Inc	$40,000	3	1%
Assistance Dogs of Hawaii	$38,500	4	1%
Hookuaaina	$37,500	1	4%
Hawaii Bicycling League	$35,000	1	4%
North Kohala Community Resource Center	$35,000	4	2%
Hawaii Opera Theatre	$35,000	2	1%
Pacific & Asian Affairs Council	$35,000	4	3%
Lighthouse Project	$35,000	1	36%
Mala'Ai	$31,000	2	5%
Trees for Honolulu's Future	$25,000	1	23%
The Hawaiian Legacy Foundation	$25,000	1	18%
Ohana Komputer	$25,000	2	37%
Aloha International Piano Festival	$25,000	4	n/a
Downtown Art Center	$25,000	1	3%
Surfrider Spirit Sessions	$25,000	1	7%
Japan-America Society of Hawaii	$25,000	5	1%
Habilitat Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Hawaii Literacy Inc	$25,000	1	3%
Nisei Veterans Memorial Center	$20,000	1	3%
Hawaii Performing Arts Company Ltd	$20,000	2	1%
Hawaii Book and Music Festival	$20,000	1	13%
American Diabetes Association	$20,000	1	0%
Kumu Kahua Theatre Inc	$20,000	2	4%
Institute for Climate and Peace	$17,000	1	n/a
Ebb & Flow Arts	$16,000	3	10%
Maui Preparatory Academy	$15,000	1	0%
Daughters of Hawaii	$15,000	1	1%
The Legal Clinic	$15,000	1	1%
Read to Me International Foundation	$15,000	1	3%
Hawai'I Forest Institute	$15,000	1	7%
Pacific Buddhist Academy	$10,000	1	1%
Haku Baldwin Center Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Ohana Arts	$10,000	2	5%
Kulia Education Foundation	$10,000	1	2%
Compassion & Choices	$10,000	1	0%
Storybook Theatre of Hawaii	$6,000	1	5%
Waikiki School PTO	$5,500	1	5%
Community Empowerment Resources	$5,000	1	0%
March of Dimes Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Hawaii Children's Action Network	$5,000	1	0%
Special Education Center of Hawaii	$5,000	1	0%
Protect & Preserve Hawaii Inc	$5,000	1	8%
Hawaii Public Health Association	$2,500	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.2M), not named here.

Kosasa Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 136 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

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 136.

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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.

Atherton Family FoundationHI143.8× affinity73 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atherton Family Foundation · J Watumull Fund · McInerny Foundation-- · Aloha United Way Inc · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools

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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About Kosasa Foundation

How much does Kosasa Foundation give?: Kosasa Foundation reported 84 grants totaling $5,190,270 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 83 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Kosasa Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (17%), Education (15%), Arts & Culture (15%).
Who are Kosasa Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Kuakini Medical Center ($2.5M), Mid-Pacific Institute ($1.2M), Dynamic Community Solutions ($1.0M).
Does Kosasa Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kosasa Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kosasa Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Atherton Family Foundation, J Watumull Fund, McInerny Foundation--.
Where is Kosasa Foundation based?: Kosasa Foundation is based in HI.