Kosasa Foundation

• The Kosasa Foundation funds work in Hawaiʻi, so a fit depends on your organisation operating there, within its themes of environmental stewardship, opportunity youth, arts and culture, and early childhood education.
• Keep requests modest and realistic: about 8 in 10 of its 214 grants to organisations fall between $15,000 and $175,000, with a median grant of $50,000, although the largest grant reached $1,000,000.
• Applicants must be 501(c)3 organisations, funds cannot be used to re-grant, and an organisation may only have one project supported per year; the process starts with a short questionnaire to check eligibility before access is given to an application portal, and the method otherwise varies by programme.
• A majority of its grant dollars, 62%, went to organisations it had already funded in its two previous filings, so relationships and a track record with the foundation appear to count for a good deal, and first-time applicants should apply with that in mind.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Hawaiian Community Assets · Capital support for the development of the maui hub which will house community serving organizations
  $500,0002024 tax year
• Social Finance · Program support for student support for underserved uh engineering students in their junior and senior years
  $250,0002024 tax year
• Hawaiian Islands Land Trust · Renovation of the cultural education center at waihe`e ridge on maui
  $250,0002024 tax year
• Institute for Native Pacific Education and Culture · Land acquisition for community hub in nanakuli
  $200,0002024 tax year
• Feed the Hunger Fund · Support shift to environmentally focused loans for small food producers
  $200,0002024 tax year
• Hawaii Community Foundation · Support for cofa medicaid enrollment project
  $200,0002024 tax year
• Hoola Na Pua · Programming for at-risk youth
  $100,0002024 tax year
• Kohala Center · 2-year mentorship program for `aina practitioners
  $100,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.