· Private foundation
Seto Foundation Co Hawaii Community 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $119k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOUCH A HEART INC | $20,000 |
| HUI O KUAPA | $20,000 |
| KAUAI FOOD BANK INC | $15,000 |
| CAMP ANUENUE CORPORATION | $15,000 |
| HEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTHY BABIES | $15,000 |
| MOILIILI HONGWANJI MISSION | $13,750 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND | $10,000 |
| DOWNTOWN ART CENTER | $10,000 |
| HAWAII CHILDREN'S CANCER FDN | $8,087 |
| IOLANI SCHOOL | $6,967 |
| HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE EARLY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| IOLANI SCHOOL | $3,934 |
| PUNAHOU SCHOOL | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 28% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 93% 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
- TATOUCH A HEART INC5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +51%
- HOHUI O KUAPA5× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +54%
- 'S'IOLANI SCHOOL6× · 2019–2025 · $66k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- TFTHE FOOD BASKET INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -14%
- CACAMP ANUENUE CORPORATIONone grant, 2019 · $20k
- MMMAI MOVEMENT HAWAII INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -50%
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.
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,…
To re-establish the systems that sustain our community through educational initiatives and land-based practices that cultivate abundance, regenerate responsibilities, and promote collective health and well being.
Hoa aina o makaha (land of makaha shared in friendship) is more than a destination farm or nonprofit organization. the embrace of a sanctuary is felt by whoever enters the gates and a sense of belonging usually follows. once a barren piece…
Ea ecoversity's mission is to provide culturally-driven learning, training, credentialing, and other long-term societal benefits to ka lahui hawai'i.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hanahauoli School and the most unlike its peers is Camp Anuenue Corporation. 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 27 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% 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 13% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 32 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 TOUCH A HEART INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUI O KUAPA ↗
- Who funds 'IOLANI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KAUAI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HOOKUAAINA ↗
- Who funds CAMP ANUENUE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HO'OLA NA PUA ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTHY BABIES COALITION OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds WAIKIKI HEALTH ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds ALOHA HARVEST ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE EARLY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds IWIKUA ↗
- Who funds IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds MAI MOVEMENT HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds PUNAHOU SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Collaborative Support Services Inc ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI ↗
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: Cooke Foundation Limited · J Watumull Fund · Aloha United Way Inc · Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc · Atherton Family Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · McInerny Foundation-- · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Stupski 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 Seto Foundation Co Hawaii Community 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.
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.