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Pikake Foundation Inc at a glance

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Pikake Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$113k
Granted FY2023
30
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

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’17
17
’18
17
’19
17
’20
18
’21
22
’22
25
’23
29
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.4MArts & Culture$707kEducation$135kReligion$45kHousing & Shelter$24kFood & Nutrition$18kEnvironment$12kHealth$12kOther$0
02FY2023 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k27 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
$1,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$239k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$3,000
HAWAII FOODBANK$3,000
HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL$2,500
NAVIAN HAWAII$2,000
HAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY$1,500
HONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH$1,500
WINDWARD CHORAL SOCIETY$1,500
CHAMBER MUSIC HAWAII ENDOWMENT FUND$1,500
EARLY MUSIC HAWAII$1,500
02The need
03

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NAVIAN HAWAII: $2k → 9%NAVIAN HAWAII: $2k → 9%HOSPICE HAWAII: $1k → 9%HOSPICE HAWAII: $1k → 9%HOSPICE HAWAII: $1k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WI
NY
MA
CA
CO
DC
HI
LA
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$932k · 32 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
12

Total granted

$932k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+77%

Still filing today

78%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • HP
    HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO
    8× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +48%
  • HM
    HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART
    8× · 2017–2024 · $124k · revenue +0%
  • PS
    PUNAHOU SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • PB
    PENSION BOARDS-UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • MO
    Merola Opera Programgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +158%
  • HC
    HAWAII CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
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.

1
Uhiwai O Haleakala

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…

Environment
2
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
3
Aloha Performing Arts Company

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Hawaii Public Television Foundation Dba Pbs Hawaii

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Mohala Pua School Dba Honolulu Waldorf School

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…

Education
6
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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7
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
8
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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9
Lai Hauola

To preserve the immediate and long-term health and wellbeing of lahaina's diverse communities and precious natural resources.

Food & Nutrition
10
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
11
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
12
Hawaiian Historical Society

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Youth Symphony Association; 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.
04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 54 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
33/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,407,049 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDAMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION: $252,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CONSERVATOR…HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $124,000 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU MUSEUM OF A…HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $18,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $45,200 · Arts & Culture+11 moreHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $175,000 · OtherHAWAII PUBLIC RAD…COMMUNITY CHURCH OF HONOLULU: $39,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY CHURCH …HAWAII OPERA THEATER: $36,500 · OtherHAWAII OPERA THEA…DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE: $22,500 · OtherDIAMOND HEAD THEA…HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL: $13,500 · OtherEARLY MUSIC HAWAII: $12,500 · Other+22 more: $68,605 · Other+22 morePUNAHOU SCHOOL: $95,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $17,000 · Education+4 more: $9,100 · EducationIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $23,000 · Housing & ShelterHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $14,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $3,000 · Food & NutritionHOSPICE HAWAII INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU: $1,500 · Human Services
Community Improvement$1,407,049Arts & Culture$439,700Other$368,105Education$121,100Housing & Shelter$23,000Food & Nutrition$17,000Human Services$8,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,407,049 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION: $252,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $175,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $124,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $95,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $23,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDIAMOND HEAD THEATRE: $22,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $18,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $17,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHANAHAUOLI SCHOOL: $13,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH: $10,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $8,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWINDWARD CHORAL SOCIETY: $7,000 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetHOSPICE HAWAII INC: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII THEATRE CENTER: $6,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHawaii Youth Opera Chorus: $6,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACCESS FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF HONOLULU: $4,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCornell University: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHONOLULU CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES: $3,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetLYON ARBORETUM ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMerola Opera Program: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET HAWAII: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFriends and Foundation of the San Francisco Public Library: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEOS OF TOMORROW INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNa Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu Hula Halau: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALOHA MEDICAL MISSION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALS Network: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII VOCAL ARTS ENSEMBLE: $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMANOA HERITAGE CENTER FKA MANOA VALLEY CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUND: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYDM INC: $105 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • 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 PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ACCESS FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF HONOLULU ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds HONOLULU CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES ↗
  • Who funds LYON ARBORETUM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds Merola Opera Program ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BALLET HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds Friends and Foundation of the San Francisco Public Library ↗

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.

J Watumull FundAtherton Family Found…John R Halligan Chari…The Cades FoundationMcInerny Foundation--Tradewind Group Found…Bank of Hawaii Charit…Aloha United Way IncCooke Foundation Limi…Central Pacific Bank …Hawaii Community Rein…Castiglione A Casauri…
J Watumull FundHI36.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Pikake Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pikake Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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