How much does The Makana Aloha Foundation give?

The Makana Aloha Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $227,288 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Makana Aloha Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (30%), Education (17%), Animals (15%).

Who are The Makana Aloha Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Maui Academy of Performing Arts ($285k), Whale Trust ($210k), Lahainaluna High School Foundation ($173k).

Does The Makana Aloha Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Makana Aloha Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Makana Aloha Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation, Bendon Family Foundation, Cooke Foundation Limited.

Where is The Makana Aloha Foundation based?

The Makana Aloha Foundation is based in HI.

Foundation Dossiers

Hawaii · Private foundation

The Makana Aloha Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$227k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 16
Grants FY2025: 15
Organizations funded FY2024: 7%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $40,000
Organizations funded a year: 12 to 16; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $5.1M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations The Makana Aloha Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	15	$227k	20%
FY2024	15	$224k	7%
FY2023	16	$277k	25%
FY2022	12	$210k	33%
FY2021	14	$196k	29%
FY2020	16	$214k	44%
FY2019	14	$227k	50%
FY2018	14	$231k	64%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$598kEducation$335kAnimals$297kEnvironment$250kHuman Services$160kFood & Nutrition$152kHealth$92kEmployment$40kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Maui Academy of Performing Arts	$285,000	8	5%
Whale Trust	$210,000	9	5%
Lahainaluna High School Foundation	$173,250	9	8%
Imua Family Services	$160,000	7	1%
University of Hawaii Foundation	$96,983	6	0%
American Heart Association Inc	$90,000	4	0%
Hawaiian Islands Land Trust	$70,000	4	0%
Maui Huliau Foundation	$63,500	7	5%
When We Shine Foundation	$45,000	2	36%
Hawaii Pet Network Inc	$42,000	5	1%

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All grantees of The Makana Aloha Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Maui Academy of Performing Arts	$285,000	8	5%
Whale Trust	$210,000	9	5%
Lahainaluna High School Foundation	$173,250	9	8%
Imua Family Services	$160,000	7	1%
University of Hawaii Foundation	$96,983	6	0%
American Heart Association Inc	$90,000	4	0%
Hawaiian Islands Land Trust	$70,000	4	0%
Maui Huliau Foundation	$63,500	7	5%
When We Shine Foundation	$45,000	2	36%
Hawaii Pet Network Inc	$42,000	5	1%
Ka Lima O Maui Ltd	$40,000	2	0%
Halau Ke'Alaokamaile	$40,000	2	8%
Haleakala Conservancy Inc	$35,000	2	9%
Arts Education for Children Group	$33,750	6	23%
Common Ground Collective	$27,000	3	2%
Maui Arts & Cultural Center	$25,000	1	0%
Maui Preparatory Academy	$20,000	2	0%
Hui No'Eau	$20,000	1	1%
Save Maui Cats Inc	$20,000	4	n/a
Maui Food Bank Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Maui Arts League	$19,000	3	7%
Honolulu Theatre for Youth	$15,000	2	0%
Grow Some Good	$13,600	2	0%
The Maui Farm Inc	$12,500	1	2%
Ebb & Flow Arts	$12,000	1	16%
Maui Humane Society	$10,000	1	0%
Ka Ipu Kukui	$10,000	1	n/a
Kimokeo Foundation	$10,000	1	4%
Merwin Conservancy Inc	$8,000	2	1%
Maui Youth Philharmonic Orchestra	$6,500	1	35%
Friends of Maui Waena Intermediate School	$5,000	1	n/a
Assistance Dogs of Hawaii	$5,000	1	0%
Lokelani Ohana	$2,190	1	4%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($349k), not named here.

The Makana Aloha Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

Fred Baldwin Memorial FoundationHI32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation · Bendon Family Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · Atherton Family Foundation · The Red Cabin Foundation Trust · Nuestro Futuro Inc · The Laurence H Dorcy Hawaiian Foundation · Maui United Way · The Strong Foundation · Kosasa Foundation · Na Hoaloha O Ka'Aina Ltd · Pga Tour Inc

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.

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About The Makana Aloha Foundation

How much does The Makana Aloha Foundation give?: The Makana Aloha Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $227,288 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Makana Aloha Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (30%), Education (17%), Animals (15%).
Who are The Makana Aloha Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Maui Academy of Performing Arts ($285k), Whale Trust ($210k), Lahainaluna High School Foundation ($173k).
Does The Makana Aloha Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Makana Aloha Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Makana Aloha Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation, Bendon Family Foundation, Cooke Foundation Limited.
Where is The Makana Aloha Foundation based?: The Makana Aloha Foundation is based in HI.