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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.

$151k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
7%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 17
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$2.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Seto Foundation Co Hawaii Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthCommunity ImprovementMembership BenefitOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$151k8%
FY202414$144k7%
FY202314$141k7%
FY202213$162k31%
FY202117$140k29%
FY202016$162k25%
FY201916$143kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$235kHealth$219kEducation$154kHuman Services$105kEmployment$100kReligion$67kArts & Culture$65kHousing & Shelter$50kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of Seto Foundation Co Hawaii Community Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Touch a Heart Inc$100,00054%
Hawaii Children's Cancer Foundation$97,83776%
Hui O Kuapa$84,780524%
'Iolani School$66,00160%
Kauai Food Bank Inc$65,00071%
Hookuaaina$55,00042%
Camp Anuenue Corporation$55,000423%
Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services$44,12840%
Ho'Ola Na Pua$35,00030%
Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii$35,00031%
The University of Puget Sound$32,80050%
Family Promise of Hawaii$30,00051%
Waikiki Health$30,00030%
Aloha Harvest$25,00020%
The Food Basket Inc$25,00010%
Hanahauoli School$23,57560%
The Early School$20,52660%
Ihs the Institute for Human Services Inc$20,00020%
Iwikua$20,00022%
Hawaii Meals on Wheels Inc$15,00020%
Mai Movement Hawaii Inc$15,000112%
Punahou School$11,50050%
Downtown Art Center$10,0001n/a
Collaborative Support Services Inc$10,00010%
Girl Scouts of Hawaii$7,54810%
Sustainable Molokai$5,00010%
Aina Haina Prepared$5,0001n/a
River of Life Mission$5,0001n/a

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($94k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Seto Foundation Co Hawaii Community Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTouch a Heart Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetHawaii Children's Cancer Foundation: $97,837 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetHui O Kuapa: $84,780 over 5y, 24% of budget'Iolani School: $66,001 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKauai Food Bank Inc: $65,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetHookuaaina: $55,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetCamp Anuenue Corporation: $55,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetKokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services: $44,128 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHo'Ola Na Pua: $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHealthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii: $35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe University of Puget Sound: $32,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Promise of Hawaii: $30,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWaikiki Health: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAloha Harvest: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Food Basket Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHanahauoli School: $23,575 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Early School: $20,526 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetIhs the Institute for Human Services Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIwikua: $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHawaii Meals on Wheels Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMai Movement Hawaii Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPunahou School: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCollaborative Support Services Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGirl Scouts of Hawaii: $7,548 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSustainable Molokai: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Cooke Foundation LimitedHI34.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Seto Foundation Co Hawaii Community Foundation

How much does Seto Foundation Co Hawaii Community Foundation give?
Seto Foundation Co Hawaii Community Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $150,738 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 17 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Seto Foundation Co Hawaii Community Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (23%), Health (21%), Education (15%).
Who are Seto Foundation Co Hawaii Community Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Touch a Heart Inc ($100k), Hawaii Children's Cancer Foundation ($98k), Hui O Kuapa ($85k).
Does Seto Foundation Co Hawaii Community Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Seto Foundation Co Hawaii Community 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 Seto Foundation Co Hawaii Community Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cooke Foundation Limited, J Watumull Fund, Aloha United Way Inc.
Where is Seto Foundation Co Hawaii Community Foundation based?
Seto Foundation Co Hawaii Community Foundation is based in HI.

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 32 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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