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Seto Foundation Co Hawaii Community Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $119k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUI O KUAPA$20,000
TOUCH A HEART INC$20,000
KAUAI FOOD BANK INC$15,000
HEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTHY BABIES$15,000
CAMP ANUENUE CORPORATION$15,000
MOILIILI HONGWANJI MISSION$13,750
DOWNTOWN ART CENTER$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND$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
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAMP ANUENUE CORPORATION: $15k → 14%MAI MOVEMENT HAWAII: $15k → 8%CAMP ANUENUE CORPORATION: $15k → 14%CAMP ANUENUE CORPORATION: $15k → 14%CAMP ANUENUE CORPORATION: $10k → 14%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $10k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $5k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $5k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $5k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $5k → 9%TOUCH A HEART INC: $30k → 9%TOUCH A HEART INC: $20k → 9%TOUCH A HEART INC: $20k → 9%TOUCH A HEART INC: $15k → 9%TOUCH A HEART INC: $15k → 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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$928k · 21 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against -14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
10

Total granted

$928k
$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
-14%

Still filing today

95%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TA
    TOUCH A HEART INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +51%
  • HO
    HUI O KUAPA
    5× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +54%
  • 'S
    'IOLANI SCHOOL
    6× · 2019–2025 · $66k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FOOD BASKET INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -14%
  • CA
    CAMP ANUENUE CORPORATION
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • MM
    MAI MOVEMENT HAWAII INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -50%
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
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
2
Papahana Kuaola

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,…

Environment
3
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
4
Hui Malama I Ke Ala Ulili

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.

Community Improvement
5
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
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6
Hawaii Education Institute
—
7
Hoa Aina O Makaha

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…

Unclassified
8
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
9
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
10
Ea Ecoversity

Ea ecoversity's mission is to provide culturally-driven learning, training, credentialing, and other long-term societal benefits to ka lahui hawai'i.

Education
11
Hokah Area Food Shelf
Food & Nutrition
12
Hiikua a Hiialo Cultural Foundation
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hanahauoli School; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 32 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)
26/26
Grantees still filing
19/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TOUCH A HEART INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesTOUCH A HEART INCCAMP ANUENUE CORPORATION: $55,000 · Human ServicesCAMP ANUENUE CORPORATIONHO'OLA NA PUA: $35,000 · Human ServicesHO'OLA NA PUAFAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $30,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAIIMAI MOVEMENT HAWAII INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesMAI MOVEMENT HAWAII INCHAWAII CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION: $97,837 · OtherHAWAII CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUN…MOILIILI HONGWANJI MISSION: $61,750 · OtherMOILIILI HONGWANJI MISSIONHANAHAUOLI SCHOOL: $23,575 · OtherHANAHAUOLI SCHOOLCAMP ANUENUE CORPORATION: $20,000 · OtherCAMP ANUENUE CORPORATIONTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $12,000 · OtherIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $20,000 · OtherIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN S…Collaborative Support Services Inc: $10,000 · Other+5 more: $23,048 · Other+5 moreHUI O KUAPA: $84,780 · Arts & CultureHUI O KUAPAHOOKUAAINA: $55,000 · Arts & CultureHOOKUAAINA'IOLANI SCHOOL: $66,001 · Education'IOLANI SCHOOLTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $32,800 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY…THE EARLY SCHOOL: $20,526 · EducationTHE EARLY SCHO…PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $11,500 · EducationPUNAHOU SCHOOLKAUAI FOOD BANK INC: $65,000 · Food & NutritionKAUAI FOOD BAN…ALOHA HARVEST: $25,000 · Food & NutritionALOHA HARVESTTHE FOOD BASKET INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD BASKE…HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII MEALS O…KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $44,128 · HealthKOKUA KALIH…HEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTHY BABIES COALITION OF HAWAII: $35,000 · HealthHEALTHY MOT…WAIKIKI HEALTH: $30,000 · HealthWAIKIKI HEA…IWIKUA: $20,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN ART CENTER: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$235,000Other$268,210Arts & Culture$139,780Education$130,827Food & Nutrition$130,000Health$109,128Community Improvement$30,000

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 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
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 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 FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds WAIKIKI HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds ALOHA HARVEST ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOD BASKET INC ↗
  • Who funds HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE EARLY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds IWIKUA ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds MAI MOVEMENT HAWAII INC ↗
  • Who funds PUNAHOU SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Collaborative Support Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI ↗

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 Limi…J Watumull FundAloha United Way IncFriends of Hawaii Cha…Atherton Family Found…The Harry and Jeanett…McInerny Foundation--Central Pacific Bank …First Insurance Compa…Tradewind Group Found…Bank of Hawaii Charit…Stupski Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 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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