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Kosasa Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
84
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$4.5MEducation$3.9MArts & Culture$3.8MPhilanthropy$2.2MHuman Services$2.0MEnvironment$1.7MYouth Development$1.3MHousing & Shelter$1.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k36 grants · $3.2M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
$45,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$159M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAWAIIAN COMMUNITY ASSETS$500,000
SOCIAL FINANCE INC$250,000
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST$250,000
FEED THE HUNGER FUND$200,000
HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$200,000
INSTITUTE FOR NATIVE PACIFIC EDUCATION AND CULTURE$200,000
MALAMA MAUNALUA$100,000
HOOLA NA PUA$100,000
ADULT FRIENDS FOR YOUTH$100,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MAUI$100,000
KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY$100,000
RE-USE HAWAI'I$100,000
THE KOHALA CENTER$100,000
KUPU$100,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$100,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.5M) 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.

area typical 10%REALIZE IMPACT: $300k → 10%PATCH: $100k → 9%LANAKILA PACIFIC: $70k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $50k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAI'I: $30k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $10k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $10k → 9%COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT RESOURCES: $5k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $300k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $250k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $250k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $105k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $20k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$17M · 89 repeat orgs$8.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

89 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

89
49

Total granted

$17M
$6.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+10%

Still filing today

87%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • KM
    KUAKINI MEDICAL CENTER
    4× · 2020–2023 · $2.5M · revenue +23%
  • MI
    MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +27%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU
    4× · 2020–2023 · $925k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • HC
    HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - KOSASA FAMILY FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $2.0M
  • DC
    DYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -66%
  • BB
    BLOOD BANK OF HAWAII
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +19%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
2
Hawaii Education Institute
—
3
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
4
Papahana Kuaola

Papahana kuaola's mission is to create quality educational programs focused on environmental restoration and economic sustainability fully integrated with hawaiian knowledge in order to exemplify a lifestyle respectful of kanaka, `aina,…

Environment
5
Hui Aloha Kiholo

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
7
Hawaii Maritime Center
—
8
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
—
9
Malama Kua Aina
Environment
10
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

To improve the health and well-being of our community.

Human Services
11
Huliauapaa

Growing hawaii's communities through culturally based forms of innovative learning, leadership development, and collaborative networking in wahi kupuna stewardship.

Environment
12
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners in Development Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hawaii Book and Music Festival. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%1%<5yr14%6%5–10yr18%19%10–20yr18%32%20–35yr12%20%35–55yr13%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr18%11%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr13%40%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/143
the rest of the field
13%
856/6,456

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.

04the grantee network

138 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. 138 of the 174 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
137/138
Grantees still filing
91/138
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - KOSASA FAMILY FUND — $2,040,000 · OtherHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - KOSASA FAMILY FUNDMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE — $1,225,000 · OtherMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTENUUANU CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH — $1,020,000 · OtherNUUANU CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHDYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS — $1,000,000 · OtherDYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONSBLOOD BANK OF HAWAII — $500,000 · OtherHAWAIIAN COMMUNITY ASSETS INC — $500,000 · Other+77 more — $7,194,316 · Other+77 moreKUAKINI MEDICAL CENTER — $2,500,000 · HealthKUAKINI MEDICAL C…IMUA FAMILY SERVICES — $250,000 · HealthIMUA FAMILY SERVI…Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation — $250,000 · HealthRehabilitation Ho…HAWAII CORD BLOOD BANK — $225,000 · HealthHAWAII CORD BLOOD…MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN HAWAII — $220,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH ASS…KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES — $200,000 · Health+8 more — $325,000 · Health+8 moreJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM — $500,000 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE AME…HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII — $400,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII PUBLI…HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $351,347 · Arts & CultureHAWAII SYMPH…HAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $155,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII YOUTH…BISHOP MUSEUM — $150,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII THEATRE CENTER — $140,000 · Arts & CulturePU'A FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Arts & CultureHUI MALAMA O KE KAI FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Arts & Culture+23 more — $1,008,456 · Arts & Culture+23 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU — $925,000 · Human ServicesHO'OLA NA PUA — $375,000 · Human ServicesRealize Impact — $300,000 · Human ServicesPATCH (PEOPLE ATTENTIVE TO CHILDREN) — $100,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS HAWAII — $100,000 · Human ServicesLANAKILA PACIFIC — $70,000 · Human Services+2 more — $52,967 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $675,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR NATIVE PACIFIC EDUCATION AND CULTURE — $200,000 · EducationISLAND SCHOOL — $175,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc — $150,000 · EducationCHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU — $85,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF WAIPAHU HIGH SCHOOL — $75,000 · EducationDreamhouse Inc — $60,000 · Education+9 more — $216,500 · EducationHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST — $290,000 · EnvironmentRE-USE HAWAII — $185,000 · Environment808 CLEANUPS — $175,000 · EnvironmentTHE KOHALA CENTER — $150,000 · EnvironmentMALAMA MAUNALUA — $100,000 · EnvironmentTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE — $85,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE COASTLINES HAWAI'I — $72,500 · EnvironmentHAWAII ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION — $60,000 · EnvironmentHui o Koolaupoko — $55,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF AMY B H GREENWELL ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN — $50,000 · EnvironmentBIG ISLAND RC&D — $50,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN — $49,388 · Environment+4 more — $62,000 · EnvironmentKUPU — $220,000 · Youth DevelopmentADULT FRIENDS FOR YOUTH — $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII — $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentLAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentMA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentKAMP HAWAII INC — $50,000 · Youth Development
Other$13,479,316Health$3,970,000Arts & Culture$2,904,803Human Services$1,922,967Education$1,636,500Environment$1,383,888Youth Development$675,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKUAKINI MEDICAL CENTER — $2,500,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE — $1,225,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetDYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS — $1,000,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU — $925,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $675,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM — $500,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetBLOOD BANK OF HAWAII — $500,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHAWAIIAN COMMUNITY ASSETS INC — $500,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII — $400,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetWAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $399,714 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA — $375,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $351,347 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetThe Koloa Early School — $350,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetRealize Impact — $300,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST — $290,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetIMUA FAMILY SERVICES — $250,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation — $250,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $250,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE MEDIATION CENTER OF THE PACIFIC INC — $250,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC — $230,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII CORD BLOOD BANK — $225,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN HAWAII — $220,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetKUPU — $220,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR NATIVE PACIFIC EDUCATION AND CULTURE — $200,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetKOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES — $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetADULT FRIENDS FOR YOUTH — $200,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetMAUI HUI MALAMA — $200,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MAUI INC — $200,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $188,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRE-USE HAWAII — $185,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetPURPLE MAIA FOUNDATION — $182,821 over 2y, 2.1% of budget808 CLEANUPS — $175,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetISLAND SCHOOL — $175,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $162,995 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $155,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF HAWAII INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBISHOP MUSEUM — $150,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE KOHALA CENTER — $150,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetTHE FOOD BASKET INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHAWAII THEATRE CENTER — $140,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FUTURE — $130,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetDIAMOND HEAD THEATRE — $125,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO — $115,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetALOHA HARVEST — $105,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS HAWAII INC — $105,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetWAIKIKI BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ASSOCIATION — $100,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budget
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.

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.

Atherton Family Found…J Watumull FundMcInerny Foundation--Aloha United Way IncBank of Hawaii Charit…Central Pacific Bank …Tradewind Group Found…Cooke Foundation Limi…First Hawaiian Bank F…First Insurance Compa…The Harry and Jeanett…Trustees of the Estat…
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

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 Kosasa Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    44report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Kosasa Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kosasa Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 174 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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