How much does Ksk Foundation give?

Ksk Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $123,017 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Ksk Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (93%), Arts & Culture (3%), Religion (1%).

Who are Ksk Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mid-Pacific Institute ($993k), Mouna Arts & Cultural Village ($21k), Shenpen Foundation ($11k).

Does Ksk Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Ksk Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ksk Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tradewind Group Foundation, J Watumull Fund, Kosasa Foundation.

Ksk Foundation

Ksk Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$123k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$998kArts & Culture$33kReligion$14kFood & Nutrition$7kAnimals$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kHuman Services$2kHealth$2kOther$0

02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k18 grants · $13k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k

$250

Median grant

States reached

$154k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MID PACIFIC INSTITUTE	$100,000
TRASHI GOMANG FOUNDATION	$10,000
MID PACIFIC INSTITUTE	$7,735
JCCY	$1,000
PBS HAWAII	$1,000
HAWAII FOOD BANK	$1,000
HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY	$500
HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO	$500
HAWAII THEATRE CENTER	$365
PACIFIC BUDDHIST ACADEMY	$250
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION	$105
PEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM	$100
THE SALVATION ARMY	$100
US OLYMPIC & PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION	$88
AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION	$62

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.0M · 22 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+61%

Still filing today

64%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureInternationalHealthEducationHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

MI
MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE
8× · 2017–2025 · $993k · revenue +33%
HF
HAWAII FOODBANK INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +28%
HP
HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII
8× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +9%

Funded once

MA
Mouna Arts & Cultural Village
one grant, 2021 · $21k
TF
THE FILIPINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC
one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +8%
JC
JESUS CHRIST IS CALLING YOU
one grant, 2021 · $800

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.

04Its field

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.

Honolulu Museum of Art

To create relevant and transformative experiences through the study, preservation, presentation and creation of art.

Arts & Culture

Hawaii Book and Music Festival

Arts & Culture

Hawaii Pacific University

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…

Education

Hawaii Medical Association

Hawaii medical association is dedicated to serving physicians, their patients and community through representation, advocacy, and public service. core activities: advocacy, education

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Hawaii International Film Festival

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…

Arts & Culture

E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute

Environment

Hawaii Maritime Center

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University of Hawaii Foundation

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.

Education

Hawaii Pacific Model United Nations Incorporated

International

Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trust

Philanthropy

Hawaii Education Institute

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Hawaii State Teachers Association

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.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Filipino Community Center Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 36 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

20/21

Grantees still filing

15/21

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,044,110International$10,700Arts & Culture$7,350Food & Nutrition$6,750Animals$5,000Education$900Public Safety & Disaster$600

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.

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.

Tradewind Group FoundationHI19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ksk Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ksk Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home