Hawaii · Private foundation
Armstrong Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $18k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $164k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Armstrong Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $344k 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 | 5 | $18k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $449k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $110k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $5k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $9k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $86k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $25k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 38 | $67k | 39% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Cancer Society Inc | $343,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hawaiian Humane Society | $187,800 | 5 | 1% |
| Hawaii Foodbank Inc | $34,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Na Kama Kai | $25,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Ihs the Institute for Human Services Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Outdoor Circle | $19,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Maui Food Bank Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Historic Hawai'I Foundation | $8,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hawaii Public Radio | $7,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($61k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Armstrong Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · J Watumull Fund · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Tradewind Group Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · Atherton Family Foundation · The Queen's Medical Center · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Finance Factors Foundation · Locations Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · The Strong Foundation
How this is measured
About Armstrong Foundation
- How much does Armstrong Foundation give?
- Armstrong Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $17,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Armstrong Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (34%), Philanthropy (27%), Animals (17%).
- Who are Armstrong Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Cancer Society Inc ($343k), Hawaiian Humane Society ($188k), Hawaii Foodbank Inc ($34k).
- Does Armstrong Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Armstrong Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Armstrong Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation, J Watumull Fund, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc.
- Where is Armstrong Foundation based?
- Armstrong Foundation is based in HI.
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