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Takaki 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.

$200k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$428kArts & Culture$50kRecreation & Sports$45kYouth Development$21kPhilanthropy$10kHuman Services$5kInternational$1kHealth$250Other$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$200,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IOLANI SCHOOL$200,000
02The need
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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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MAUI HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%BOY SCOUNTS OF AMERICA - ALOHA COUNCIL: $500 → 9%EAST HONOLULU HIROSHIMA KENJIN KAI: $5k → 15%MAUI HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%IOLANI SCHOOL: $200k → 9%MAUI HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%IOLANI SCHOOL: $75k → 9%IOLANI SCHOOL: $75k → 9%JUNIOR ACHEIVEMENT: $15k → 9%IOLANI SCHOOL: $20k → 9%KYO-YA HOTELS FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII: $10k → 9%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF HAWAII: $1k → 9%JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII: $10k → 9%ALOHA FESTIVALS: $1k → 9%HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $25k → 9%CENTER FOR TOMORROWS LEADERS: $5k → 9%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $250 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$495k · 5 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
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Total granted

$495k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
0%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • 'S
    'IOLANI SCHOOL
    4× · 2020–2025 · $370k · revenue +46%
  • HH
    HAWAII HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +35%
  • HF
    HONOLULU FESTIVAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +801%

Funded once

  • HP
    HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +47%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHEIVEMENT
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • KH
    KYO-YA HOTELS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Hawaii Education Institute
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Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
3
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
4
Punahou School

In 2023, punahou revealed its renewed mission and values statement. it reads as follows: we are children of ka punahou, the new spring.from under the hala tree, we weave a mat that seats many, our home to dream and discover our purpose and…

Education
5
Hawaii Association of Independent Schools

The hawai'i association of independent schools (hais) advocates on behalf of independent education in hawaii, provides services that strengthen individual schools and engages them to achieve educational quality and excellence for all…

Education
6
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
7
Kula Aupuni Niihau a Kahelelani Aloha (Kanaka)

Preserve niihau cultural values and language.

Education
8
The Hawaii Japanese School

The school provides instruction to students who are of age to attend the compulsory education system of japan and to students who desire to learn the japanese language compatible with the standard educational curricula in japan; to enable…

Education
9
The University of Hawaii Alumni Association

To advance the interests of the university of hawaii, alumni, and friends through mutually beneficial and lifelong relationships, to generate support for the university, and to participate in events that showcase the university's…

10
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
11
Hawaii Preparatory Academy

To provide exceptional learning opportunities in a diverse community honoring the traditions of hawaii. see schedule o.

Education
12
Kukio Hoomana Fund

The kuki'o ho'omana fund seeks to uplift and enrich our hawai'i island community through intentional investments in curated local organizations focusing on youth empowerment, affordable housing, environmental preservation, cultural…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of Hawaii Inc and the most unlike its peers is 'Iolani School. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

'IOLANI SCHOOL — $370,000 · Education'IOLANI SCHOOLMAUI HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationMAUI HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATIONHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY+1 more — $2,500 · EducationHONOLULU FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU F…JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII — $20,000 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE C…HAWAII HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION — $45,000 · Recreation & SportsHAWAII HI…JUNIOR ACHEIVEMENT — $15,000 · OtherEAST HONOLULU HIROSHIMA KENJIN KAI — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $1,000 · Other+1 more — $500 · OtherKYO-YA HOTELS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCENTER FOR TOMORROW'S LEADERS — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF HAWAII INC — $1,000 · InternationalAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $250 · Health
Education$427,500Arts & Culture$50,000Recreation & Sports$45,000Other$21,500Philanthropy$10,000Youth Development$5,000International$1,000Health$250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budget'IOLANI SCHOOL — $370,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION — $45,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetHONOLULU FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetMAUI HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII — $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetKYO-YA HOTELS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCENTER FOR TOMORROW'S LEADERS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF HAWAII INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Tradewind Group FoundationHI19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tradewind Group Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Finance Factors Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Aloha United Way Inc · Atherton Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Takaki 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Takaki Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Takaki Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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