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The Cades Foundation at a glance

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The Cades Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$711k
Granted FY2024still arriving
61
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Arts & Culture$961kEducation$858kFood & Nutrition$553kCrime & Legal$333kHousing & Shelter$193kYouth Development$110kHealth$57kAnimals$56kOther$0
02FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $146k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $465k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
The Food Basket Inc$25,000
Ballet Hawaii$25,000
Hawaii Youth Symphony Association$25,000
Maui Food Bank Inc$25,000
Mid-Pacific Institute$25,000
Hawaii Contemporary$25,000
Hawaii Public Radio$25,000
Diamond Head Theatre$20,000
Legal Aid Society of Hawaii$20,000
PBS Hawaii$15,000
Mckinley High School Foundation$15,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Kauai Northshore Pantry: $8k → 9%Kauai Northshore Pantry: $8k → 9%Kauai Northshore Pantry: $8k → 9%KAUAI NORTHSHORE PANTRY: $5k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $3k → 9%Helping Hands Hawaii: $3k → 9%Helping Hands Hawaii: $3k → 9%Helping Hands Hawaii: $3k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $3k → 9%Susannah Wesley Community Center: $1k → 9%SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 9%SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 9%Waikiki Community Center: $5k → 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%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $5k → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 60 repeat orgs$122k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
13

Total granted

$3.2M
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+33%

Still filing today

85%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
Arts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthOther
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

  • HF
    HAWAII FOODBANK INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $210k · revenue +28%
  • IT
    IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $165k · revenue +23%
  • VL
    VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES HAWAII
    5× · 2020–2024 · $165k · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • HW
    HAWAII WILDLIFE CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +5%
  • HS
    HAWAII STATE BAR ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -2%
  • IS
    ISLAND SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +55%
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 Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
2
Hawaii Education Institute
—
3
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
4
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
5
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

To improve the health and well-being of our community.

Human Services
6
Hawaii Maritime Center
—
7
Hui Aloha Kiholo

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.

Arts & Culture
8
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
9
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
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
Aloha Performing Arts Company

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Kapi'olani Medical Specialists

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Programs Hawaii; 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.
04the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 81 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/68
Grantees still filing
46/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Hawaii Foundation - Law School: $241,943 · OtherUniversity of Hawaii Foundation - Law SchoolBALLET HAWAII: $130,000 · OtherBALLET HAWAIIMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE: $125,000 · OtherMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTEHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $120,000 · OtherHAWAII PUBLIC RADIODIAMOND HEAD THEATRE: $95,000 · OtherDIAMOND HEAD THEATRELE JARDIN ACADEMY INC: $90,000 · OtherLE JARDIN ACADEMY INCManoa Valley Theatre: $75,000 · OtherMCKINLEY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $70,000 · OtherFAMILY PROGRAMS HAWAII: $65,000 · OtherHANAHAUOLI SCHOOL: $65,000 · Other+34 more: $498,075 · Other+34 moreHAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $102,500 · Arts & CultureHAWAII YOUTH SYMP…HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII: $75,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII PUBLIC TEL…HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $75,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII SYMPHONY O…HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $52,500 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU MUSEUM O…HAWAII OPERA THEATRE: $50,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII OPERA THEA…HONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU BIENNIAL…BAMBOO RIDGE PRESS: $32,500 · Arts & CultureBAMBOO RIDGE PRES…HONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $82,000 · Arts & Culture+8 moreHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $210,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII FOODBANK …THE FOOD BASKET INC: $115,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD BASKET …MAUI FOOD BANK INC: $85,000 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD BANK I…ALOHA HARVEST: $50,000 · Food & NutritionALOHA HARVESTKAUAI FOOD BANK INC: $37,500 · Food & NutritionKAUAI FOOD BANK …VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES HAWAII: $165,000 · Crime & LegalVOLUNTEER…LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF HAWAII: $80,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID…HAWAII JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Crime & LegalHAWAII JU…UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $134,500 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $50,000 · EducationASSETS SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationISLAND SCHOOL: $10,000 · Education'IOLANI SCHOOL: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $3,000 · EducationIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $165,000 · Housing & ShelterKAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $27,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $25,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS HAWAII: $12,500 · Human ServicesWAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $4,500 · Human ServicesSUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $3,000 · Human Services
Other$1,575,018Arts & Culture$529,500Food & Nutrition$497,500Crime & Legal$275,000Education$257,500Housing & Shelter$165,000Human Services$72,500

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 budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $210,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $165,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES HAWAII: $165,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $134,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET HAWAII: $130,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $120,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FOOD BASKET INC: $115,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $102,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetDIAMOND HEAD THEATRE: $95,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLE JARDIN ACADEMY INC: $90,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $85,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF HAWAII: $80,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII: $75,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $75,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMCKINLEY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetFAMILY PROGRAMS HAWAII: $65,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHANAHAUOLI SCHOOL: $65,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $52,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII OPERA THEATRE: $50,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetALOHA HARVEST: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetASSETS SCHOOL: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALOHA UNITED WAY INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKAUAI FOOD BANK INC: $37,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetBAMBOO RIDGE PRESS: $32,500 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetHAWAII JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTHE MEDIATION CENTER OF THE PACIFIC INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetKAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $27,500 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII WILDLIFE CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTAX FOUNDATION OF HAWAII: $25,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetHONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII STATE BAR ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKapi'olani Health Foundation: $19,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHonolulu Civil Beat Inc: $17,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC HAWAII: $15,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetHELPING HANDS HAWAII: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII THEATRE CENTER: $12,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII NATURE CENTER INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget'IOLANI SCHOOL: $10,000 over 2y, 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.

  • 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 HAWAII OPERA THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds ALOHA HARVEST ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds ASSETS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds KAUAI FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds HONOLULU BIENNIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BAMBOO RIDGE PRESS ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDIATION CENTER OF THE PACIFIC INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TAX FOUNDATION OF HAWAII ↗

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.

Atherton Family Found…J Watumull FundTradewind Group Found…Bank of Hawaii Charit…Cooke Foundation Limi…Central Pacific Bank …Aloha United Way IncMcInerny Foundation--First Insurance Compa…First Hawaiian Bank F…Kosasa FoundationThe Clarence Tc Ching…
Atherton Family FoundationHI79.7× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    17report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Cades Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Cades 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 81 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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