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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “hawai”
Where the money went
Stupski FoundationSan Francisco, CA
70 matching grants · $25.9M · through 2024Largest: $1.0M to University of Hawai'i Foundation — to support the collaboration between hawai'i p-20 partnerships for education and the university of hawai'i community colleges to increase hawai'i's public high school graduates' co…
Largest: $50,000 to HAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATE — support for the rediscovering hawai'i's soul initiative to create spaces where leaders from all sectors could have candid, difficult discussions to work together to take action tha…
Largest: $10,000 to CORAL REEF ALLIANCE — coral reef alliance's hawai'i program -conserv&research
Seattle FoundationSeattle, WACharity · may take applications
17 matching grants · $172,000 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to HAWAI'I COMMMUNITY FOUNDATION — to provide general support.
Largest: $17,500 to KOKUA HAWAI'I FOUNDATION — general operating support
Largest: $10,000 to HAWAI'I CHILDREN'S ACTION NETWORK — grant: hawai'i summer food access for children fund
The San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $179,200 · through 2024Largest: $10,000 to HAWAI'I PEOPLE'S FUND — advised - for general operating support through the huli 2022 initiative and for hawai'i peace & justice.
Largest: $25,000 to HAWAII CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — to support a one-time request to hire a consultant, sms research, to complete a workforce analysis of skilled trade occupations in hawai'i.
Largest: $50,000 to Hawai'i People's Fund — health & wellness
Largest: $10,000 to Kupu — a program of kupu and kokua hawai?i foundation, the hawai?i youth sustainability challenge (hysc) is an initiative to empower hawai?i youth in grades 9-12 across the state to creat…
Largest: $1.3M to UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I FOUNDATION - ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP — to contrubute cash to the support of the organization.
Largest: $50,015 to HAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL — grant in support of the new american perspectives program at the 2024 hawai'i international film festival. the program centers the work of immigrant and foreign-born filmmakers. th…
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →

