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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IOLANI SCHOOL$200,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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10

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
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

  • '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
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
Hawaii Education Institute
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2
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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of Hawaii Inc; 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 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. 11 of the 15 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

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.

Tradewind Group Found…First Insurance Compa…Finance Factors Found…J Watumull FundCentral Pacific Bank …Bank of Hawaii Charit…Aloha United Way IncAtherton Family Found…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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, 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.
    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 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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