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Backpack Program
child hunger reliefweekend meal supportyouth nutrition+1 more
Who can apply: Serves keiki needing food support on weekends and school holidays through participating sites.
About Kauai Food Bank
To Educate, Provide Nutritious Food for the Hungry, and Respond to Emergencies
Focus Areas
Food security / hunger reliefEmergency food distributionChild nutrition / school-aged childrenSenior food support
Who They Fund
food-insecure individuals and householdslow-income community membersindividuals facing immediate / emergency need
Funding Style
direct service deliveryprogram-restricted fundingemergency / need-basis supportin-kind support (food distribution)
About Kauai Food Bank
Kauai Food Bank Inc makes food access the center of its grantmaking, with support tied to child nutrition, senior meals, emergency food relief, and agency distribution across Kauai. The foundation’s program set shows a direct-service model: food boxes, on-site feeding, delivery to partner agencies, and emergency pick-up for people who need food when no pantries are open. It also operates age-specific efforts, including the Keiki Cafe Program for children in after-school and summer activities and the Kupuna Delivery Program for seniors, which serves 200+ elders through third-party nonprofit partners. Recent grants show this pattern in practice. In 2025, it awarded $62,431 to the State Department of Education in Honolulu, and in 2024 it gave $65,877 to the same recipient. Those grants sit alongside repeated support for local partners such as Church of the Pacific Hookipa Kauai, West Kauai United Methodist Church, and Ka Hale Pono, indicating ongoing relationships rather than one-off awards. The foundation’s public charity status and local scope align with a tightly focused hunger-relief role.
What Kauai Food Bank Funds
Food security runs through the foundation’s work in several distinct settings. For school-aged children, the Keiki Cafe Program provides snacks such as yogurt, fresh fruit, and granola bars to keiki in after-school and summer activities. A related child-focused pattern appears in grants to Kamaaina Kids Preschools, including $6,932 in 2024 and $5,187 in 2025. Senior nutrition is another major lane: the Kupuna Delivery Program brings food to elder communities around Kauai through nonprofit partners, and the County of Kauai Office of Elderly Affairs received $33,213 in 2024 and $13,796 in 2025. The foundation also supports emergency and supplemental feeding through agency channels; in 2023 it gave $33,681 to the State of Hawaii Department of Education for food box program, supplemental and need basis feeding, and on-site feeding program. That same year, Hawaii Health and Harm Reduction Center received $8,006 for the same purposes.
How Kauai Food Bank Gives
Typical awards cluster in the mid five-figure range, with a p25 of $11,802, a median of $14,546, and a p75 of $31,383. The recent record shows repeated awards to the same recipients across multiple years, including the State Department of Education, Church of the Pacific Hookipa Kauai, West Kauai United Methodist Church, Ka Hale Pono, the County of Kauai Office of Elderly Affairs, and Hawaiian Sustainability Foundation. That repetition points to ongoing operating support rather than isolated project grants. The foundation is a public charity and its active programs accept unsolicited applications, including agency distribution and emergency food assistance.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$171K
Total Assets
$3.4M
Total Revenue
$1.5M
Total Expenses
$1.3M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $12K and $31K, with a median of $15K.
25th Percentile
$12K
Median
$15K
75th Percentile
$31K
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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