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Tradewind Group Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
146
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$101k
Largest
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$1.4MHealth$1.0MArts & Culture$887kCommunity Improvement$655kPhilanthropy$486kYouth Development$443kInternational$376kHuman Services$364kOther$0
02FY2025 · 146 grants

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
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY20–25, $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.

area typical 7%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $26k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $26k → 9%MOTIV8 FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $18k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS HAWAII STATE CHAPTER: $15k → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $14k → 9%PATCH: $14k → 9%PALOLO CHINESE HOME: $12k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $10k → 9%THE PANTRY BY FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $10k → 9%MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $10k → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $10k → 9%HO'OLA NA PUA: $9k → 9%HO'OLA NA PUA: $9k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $8k → 9%LANAKILA PACIFIC: $7k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $7k → 9%PALOLO CHINESE HOME: $7k → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $5k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $5k → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $5k → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $5k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $5k → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $5k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $5k → 9%HO'OLA NA PUA: $5k → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $4k → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $4k → 9%HALE KIPA INC: $4k → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $4k → 9%HALE KIPA INC: $4k → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $4k → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $4k → 9%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $4k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $3k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $3k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $3k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $3k → 9%SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 9%KMARK TAKAI FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%LANAKILA PACIFIC: $600 → 9%KAUAI HOSPICE INC: $500 → 9%AMA OLUKAI FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $500 → 9%THE CAREGIVER FOUNDATION: $260 → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $100 → 9%PATCH: $100 → 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.8M · 154 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

154
132

Total granted

$5.8M
$814k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+23%

Still filing today

66%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $362k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther
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

  • PS
    PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $428k · revenue +56% · 34% of their budget
  • HE
    HAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $391k · revenue +92%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $227k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $126k
  • BB
    BLOOD BANK OF HAWAIIgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +32%
  • HS
    HAWAII STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
    one 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.

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 - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
2
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
3
Hawaii Education Institute
—
4
Hawaii Maritime Center
—
5
Hawaii Exemplary State Foundation
Community Improvement
6
Hiikua a Hiialo Cultural Foundation
Arts & Culture
7
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
8
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
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
The People's Fund

Hawai`i people`s fund supports, funds, and amplifies the work of hawai`i- based grassroots organizations challenging systems of oppression.

Human Services
11
Hui Malama I Ke Ala Ulili

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.

Community Improvement
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 Partners in Development Foundation; the most unlike its peers is T Foundation. 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

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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
46
Early backer (in before they grew)
174/177
Grantees still filing
114/177
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION - SHIDLER SCHOOL OF BUSINESS (PACE PITCH): $207,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION - SHIDLER SCHOOL OF BUSINES…Individual grant recipient: $176,355 · OtherHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $160,270 · OtherUNITED STATES JAPAN COUNCIL: $151,000 · OtherCENTER FOR TOMORROW'S LEADERS: $187,600 · Other+122 more: $2,889,999 · Other+122 morePUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $427,824 · EducationPUBLIC SCHOO…Teach for America Inc: $97,840 · EducationTeach for Am…UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $78,710 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…MOVERS AND SHAKAS: $75,000 · EducationMOVERS AND S…+12 more: $146,319 · Education+12 moreStraub Foundation: $253,750 · HealthStraub Foun…American Heart Association Inc: $227,059 · HealthAmerican He…Kapi'olani Health Foundation: $131,020 · HealthKapi'olani …HALE MAKUA HEALTH SERVICES: $30,000 · Health+7 more: $80,400 · Health+7 moreHAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVE: $390,900 · Community ImprovementHAWAII EX…OAHU ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD: $115,000 · Community ImprovementOAHU ECON…MANA UP FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Community ImprovementMANA UP F…KUMU KAHUA THEATRE INC: $35,000 · Community ImprovementKUMU KAHU…+4 more: $30,700 · Community ImprovementHAWAII UNITED OKINAWA ASSOCIATION: $103,800 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII: $86,726 · Arts & CultureT Foundation: $44,906 · Arts & CultureHAWAII THEATRE CENTER: $40,550 · Arts & CultureHAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $40,088 · Arts & CultureHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $33,000 · Arts & CultureHonolulu Civil Beat Inc: $32,730 · Arts & CultureVOLUNTEER ALLY: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMANOA HERITAGE CENTER FKA MANOA VALLEY CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUND: $21,000 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH: $18,800 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $72,534 · Arts & CultureHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $373,010 · PhilanthropyALOHA UNITED WAY INC: $44,155 · PhilanthropyTHE GIFT FOUNDATION OF HAWAII: $31,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $17,000 · PhilanthropyYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU: $62,100 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OAHU: $38,891 · Human ServicesMAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $27,574 · Human ServicesHO'OLA NA PUA: $22,000 · Human ServicesFEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $20,300 · Human ServicesMOTIV8 FOUNDATION INC: $19,700 · Human ServicesPALOLO CHINESE HOME: $18,500 · Human ServicesAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $17,760 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $17,575 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS HAWAII: $17,480 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $15,000 · Human ServicesPATCH (PEOPLE ATTENTIVE TO CHILDREN): $14,200 · Human Services+3 more: $20,000 · Human Services
Other$3,772,724Education$825,693Health$722,229Community Improvement$621,600Arts & Culture$519,134Philanthropy$465,165Human Services$311,080

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $427,824 over 5y, 34% of budgetHAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVE: $390,900 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $373,010 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetStraub Foundation: $253,750 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $227,059 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR TOMORROW'S LEADERS: $187,600 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $160,270 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetKapi'olani Health Foundation: $131,020 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetOAHU ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD: $115,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetHAWAII UNITED OKINAWA ASSOCIATION: $103,800 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetBLOOD BANK OF HAWAII: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $97,840 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGRASSROOT INSTITUTE OF HAWAII INC: $95,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetJAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OF HAWAII: $86,726 over 6y, 20% of budgetKUPU: $86,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetDYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $86,380 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $78,710 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMOVERS AND SHAKAS: $75,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetJAPAN-AMERICA SOCIETY OF HAWAII: $68,029 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetHOUSING HAWAII'S FUTURE: $65,000 over 3y, 10.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU: $62,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF HAWAII INC: $56,260 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $54,165 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOLOMUA COLLECTIVE: $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMANA UP FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetPURPLE MAIA FOUNDATION: $48,902 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetT Foundation: $44,906 over 6y, 32% of budgetALOHA UNITED WAY INC: $44,155 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII THEATRE CENTER: $40,550 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $40,088 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetPACIFIC INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR HIGH TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH: $40,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OAHU: $38,891 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $37,719 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKUMU KAHUA THEATRE INC: $35,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $33,470 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $33,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHonolulu Civil Beat Inc: $32,730 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GIFT FOUNDATION OF HAWAII: $31,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetHALE MAKUA HEALTH SERVICES: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $27,574 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT: $25,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST ANDREW'S SCHOOLS: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE: $25,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetPACIFIC BUDDHIST ACADEMY: $24,300 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII: $23,450 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA: $22,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKUAKINI FOUNDATION: $21,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMANOA HERITAGE CENTER FKA MANOA VALLEY CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUND: $21,000 over 3y, 1.5% 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 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.

Bank of Hawaii Charitable FdnHI151.9× affinity76 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
47report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Tradewind Group Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tradewind Group 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 343 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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