Hawaii · Private foundation
Ama Olukai Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,016,462
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $92k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Ama Olukai Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $1.2M | 65% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $280k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $357k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $139k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $120k | 46% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $99k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $92k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $90k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lele Aloha | $1,016,462 | 1 | n/a |
| Na Kama Kai | $109,350 | 9 | 4% |
| Huli Hawaii Inc | $100,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Polynesian Voyaging Society | $96,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Hawaiian Lifeguard Association | $70,000 | 7 | 60% |
| University of Hawaii Foundation | $68,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Kauluakalana | $51,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Collaborative Support Services Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Hoola Music and Cultural Arts | $46,500 | 4 | 22% |
| Hui Aloha Aina Momona | $42,000 | 5 | 5% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($468k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ama Olukai Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Atherton Family Foundation · Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement · The Strong Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · Johnson Ohana Foundation · Historic Hawai'I Foundation · Hawaii Council for Humanities · Harold Kl Castle Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Aloha United Way Inc
How this is measured
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About Ama Olukai Foundation
- How much does Ama Olukai Foundation give?
- Ama Olukai Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $1,208,462 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ama Olukai Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Environment (20%), Public Safety & Disaster (18%).
- Who are Ama Olukai Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lele Aloha ($1.0M), Na Kama Kai ($109k), Huli Hawaii Inc ($100k).
- Does Ama Olukai Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ama Olukai Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ama Olukai Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools, Atherton Family Foundation, Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement.
- Where is Ama Olukai Foundation based?
- Ama Olukai Foundation is based in HI.
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