Hawaii · Private foundation
Ben & Miriam Lau Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $194k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2024
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 25
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Ben & Miriam Lau Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 17 | $194k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $151k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $402k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $153k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $145k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $237k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $107k | 46% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $175k | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uh Foundation | $210,843 | 7 | 0% |
| The Queen's Medical Center | $210,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Aloha United Way | $155,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Hawaii Foodbank | $147,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Hawaii Pacific Health | $115,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Volunteer Ally | $112,500 | 5 | 54% |
| Punahou School | $95,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Straub Foundation | $45,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Kunia Country Farms Educational Outreach | $42,500 | 7 | 100% |
| Diamond Head Theatre | $34,000 | 1 | 1% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($160k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ben & Miriam Lau Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 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: The James and Juanita Wo Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · J Watumull Fund · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · The Robert & Betty Wo Foundation · McInerny Foundation-- · Kosasa Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc
How this is measured
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About Ben & Miriam Lau Foundation
- How much does Ben & Miriam Lau Foundation give?
- Ben & Miriam Lau Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $194,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Ben & Miriam Lau Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (29%), Education (21%), Food & Nutrition (18%).
- Who are Ben & Miriam Lau Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Uh Foundation ($211k), The Queen's Medical Center ($210k), Aloha United Way ($155k).
- Does Ben & Miriam Lau Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ben & Miriam Lau Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ben & Miriam Lau Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The James and Juanita Wo Foundation, First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation, Tradewind Group Foundation.
- Where is Ben & Miriam Lau Foundation based?
- Ben & Miriam Lau Foundation is based in HI.
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