Hawaii · Private foundation
Caroline Shipman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $23k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 16
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $262k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Caroline Shipman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | 15 | $23k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $22k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $14k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $16k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $12k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $15k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii Science and Technology Museum | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Food Basket Inc | $7,850 | 6 | 0% |
| Hilo Medical Center Foundation | $6,350 | 6 | 0% |
| Kona Historical Society | $6,120 | 6 | 0% |
| Puna Covenant Church Keaau Hi | $6,120 | 6 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Club of the Big Island | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Volcano Community Foundation | $5,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Hawaii Pacific Parks Association Ltd Fka Hi Natural History Association Ltd | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Pacific Tsunami Museum Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($52k), not named here.
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Caroline Shipman Foundation
- How much does Caroline Shipman Foundation give?
- Caroline Shipman Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $22,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Caroline Shipman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (14%), Arts & Culture (13%), Health (13%).
- Who are Caroline Shipman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Hawaii Science and Technology Museum ($10k), The Food Basket Inc ($8k), Hilo Medical Center Foundation ($6k).
- Does Caroline Shipman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Caroline Shipman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Caroline Shipman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Caroline Shipman Foundation based?
- Caroline Shipman Foundation is based in HI.
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