· Private foundation
The Cades Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $146k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $465k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Hawaii Foundation - Law School | $50,000 |
| Hawaii Food Bank | $50,000 |
| Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii | $40,000 |
| Institute for Human Services | $35,000 |
| Ballet Hawaii | $25,000 |
| Hawaii Public Radio | $25,000 |
| Mid-Pacific Institute | $25,000 |
| Hawaii Contemporary | $25,000 |
| Maui Food Bank Inc | $25,000 |
| The Food Basket Inc | $25,000 |
| Hawaii Youth Symphony Association | $25,000 |
| Legal Aid Society of Hawaii | $20,000 |
| Diamond Head Theatre | $20,000 |
| Hawaii Symphony Orchestra | $15,000 |
| Mckinley High School Foundation | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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 +23% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- HFHAWAII FOODBANK INC5× · 2020–2024 · $210k · revenue +28%
- ITIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $165k · revenue +18%
- VLVOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES HAWAII5× · 2020–2024 · $165k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- HWHAWAII WILDLIFE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +5%
- HSHAWAII STATE BAR ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -2%
- ISISLAND SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +55%
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.
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance the cultural and natural landscape of the kiholo bay area through collaborative management and active community stewardship.
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,…
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…
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…
The mission of the aloha theatre is to enrich the lives of hawaii residents and visitors by providing quality live theatre, performing arts education, and a venue for artistic expression.
Kapi'olani medical specialists (dba hawai'i pacific health medical group) is a multispecialty provider group dedicated to providing world-class care for adults and children across hawai'i and the pacific region working in partnership with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Programs Hawaii and the most unlike its peers is The Pantry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. 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.
68 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. 68 of the 81 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 HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES HAWAII ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALLET HAWAII ↗
- Who funds MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE ↗
- Who funds LE JARDIN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds MCKINLEY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROGRAMS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSETS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALOHA HARVEST ↗
- Who funds HAWAII OPERA THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds KAUAI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAMBOO RIDGE PRESS ↗
- Who funds THE MEDIATION CENTER OF THE PACIFIC INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds THE PANTRY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TAX FOUNDATION OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HAWAII WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
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: Atherton Family Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Tradewind Group Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Cooke Foundation Limited · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · McInerny Foundation-- · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Kosasa Foundation · The Clarence Tc Ching 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 The Cades 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.
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