· Private foundation
Ksk Foundation
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 $10k18 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MID PACIFIC INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| TRASHI GOMANG FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MID PACIFIC INSTITUTE | $7,735 |
| PBS HAWAII | $1,000 |
| JCCY | $1,000 |
| HAWAII FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO | $500 |
| HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY | $500 |
| HAWAII THEATRE CENTER | $365 |
| PACIFIC BUDDHIST ACADEMY | $250 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $105 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $100 |
| PEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM | $100 |
| US OLYMPIC & PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION | $88 |
| AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION | $62 |
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 (FY25–25, $35) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- MIMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2025 · $993k · revenue +33%
- HFHAWAII FOODBANK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +28%
- HPHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII8× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- MAMouna Arts & Cultural Villageone grant, 2021 · $21k
- TFTHE FILIPINO COMMUNITY CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +8%
- JCJESUS CHRIST IS CALLING YOUone grant, 2021 · $800
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.
To create relevant and transformative experiences through the study, preservation, presentation and creation of art.
Hawaii pacific university is an international learning community set in the rich cultural context of hawaii. students from around the world join us for an american education built on a liberal arts foundation. our innovative undergraduate…
Hawaii medical association is dedicated to serving physicians, their patients and community through representation, advocacy, and public service. core activities: advocacy, education
To foster international cultural awareness and understanding through the medium of film. to act as a creative pipeline for hawaii and the pacific, showcasing new and emerging talent from hawaii, asia, americas, europe, and the pacific…
To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.
Served hsta members as their exclusive collective bargaining agent,administered members' contract negotiations with the state of hawaiiconcerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, fringe benefits, hoursand other employment conditions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Filipino Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shenpen Foundation. 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 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 9% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 36 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 MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SHENPEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HAWAII LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds THE FILIPINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII THEATRE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAWAII BICYCLING LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC BUDDHIST ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds PEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AARP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
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: Tradewind Group Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Kosasa Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · The Michael B Wood Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ksk 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.