· Private foundation
Tradewind Group Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k100 grants · $323k
- $10k–50k41 grants · $764k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $404k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,510 |
| US-JAPAN COUNCIL | $100,000 |
| PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HAWAII FOUNDATION | $78,745 |
| HAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVE | $75,000 |
| HAWAII UNITED OKINAWA ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC | $41,210 |
| HAWAII FOODBANK INC | $34,660 |
| KAPIOLANI HEALTH FOUNDATION | $32,500 |
| UH FOUNDATION | $31,906 |
| KUPU | $27,500 |
| YMCA OF HONOLULU | $25,600 |
| HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO | $25,000 |
| MOVERS AND SHAKAS | $25,000 |
| GRASSROOT INSTITUTE OF HAWAII | $25,000 |
| HOLOMUA COLLECTIVE | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $315k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
154 repeat relationships: 87 still active in FY2025, 67 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $362k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PSPUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HAWAII FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $428k · revenue +56% · 34% of their budget
- HEHAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVE6× · 2020–2025 · $391k · revenue +92%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $227k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $126k
- BBBLOOD BANK OF HAWAIIgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +32%
- HSHAWAII STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
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.
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…
Hawai`i people`s fund supports, funds, and amplifies the work of hawai`i- based grassroots organizations challenging systems of oppression.
To re-establish the systems that sustain our community through educational initiatives and land-based practices that cultivate abundance, regenerate responsibilities, and promote collective health and well being.
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…
How this is measured
177 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 177 of the 343 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Straub Foundation ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TOMORROW'S LEADERS ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds Kapi'olani Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds OAHU ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD ↗
- Who funds HAWAII UNITED OKINAWA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD BANK OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOT INSTITUTE OF HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds KUPU ↗
- Who funds DYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOVERS AND SHAKAS ↗
- Who funds JAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETY OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HOUSING HAWAII'S FUTURE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds HOLOMUA COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds MANA UP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PURPLE MAIA FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Aloha United Way Inc · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Kosasa Foundation · McInerny Foundation-- · The Queen's Medical Center · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Finance Factors Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tradewind Group Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tradewind Group Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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