· Private foundation
Pikake Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
90% of Pikake Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 29 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Pikake Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 25 organizations, $113k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k27 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATER | $30,000 |
| HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO | $25,000 |
| PUNAHOU SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| COMMUNITY CHURCH OF HONOLULU | $6,000 |
| HAWAII OPERA THEATER | $5,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES | $3,500 |
| HAWAII FOODBANK | $3,000 |
| HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $3,000 |
| HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| NAVIAN HAWAII | $2,000 |
| EARLY MUSIC HAWAII | $1,500 |
| HAWAII THEATRE CENTER | $1,500 |
| HAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY | $1,500 |
| CHAMBER MUSIC HAWAII ENDOWMENT FUND | $1,500 |
| HONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $9k) 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.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- HPHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO8× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +48%
- PSPUNAHOU SCHOOL6× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +34%
- ITIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- PBPENSION BOARDS-UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST INCone grant, 2020 · $5k
- MOMerola Opera Programgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +158%
- HCHAWAII CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTERone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
The mission of the corporation shall be to work with partners to protect and restore native ecosystems and watersheds, to improve the quality and quantity of freshwater resources to perpetuate hawaiian cultural resources and practices, to…
The mission of the aloha theatre is to enrich the lives of hawaii residents and visitors by providing quality live theatre, performing arts education, and a venue for artistic expression.
The mission of pbs hawai'i is to advance learning and discovery by sharing stories that profoundly touch lives. we bring the world to hawai'i and hawai'i to the world.
See schedule o.at honolulu waldorf school, we educate each child to find meaning, passion, and purpose in life and to contribute to the creation of a better world for all. through a curriculum based on the developmental stages of the human…
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…
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.
To preserve the immediate and long-term health and wellbeing of lahaina's diverse communities and precious natural resources.
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.
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…
The society is dedicated to preserving historical materials relating to hawaii, and to publishing scholarly research on hawaiian history so present and future peoples throughout the world will recognize and appreciate the history. the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Youth Symphony Association and the most unlike its peers is Windward Choral Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 54 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds PUNAHOU SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE ↗
- Who funds HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds HAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD CHORAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII THEATRE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACCESS FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF HONOLULU ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds LYON ARBORETUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES ↗
- Who funds Merola Opera Program ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Friends and Foundation of the San Francisco Public Library ↗
- Who funds BALLET HAWAII ↗
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: J Watumull Fund · Atherton Family Foundation · John R Halligan Charitable Fund · The Cades Foundation · McInerny Foundation-- · Tradewind Group Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Aloha United Way Inc · Cooke Foundation Limited · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Hawaii Community Reinvestment Corporation · Castiglione A Casauria 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 Pikake Foundation Inc 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.
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.