· Private foundation
Caroline Shipman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hawaii Science and Technology Museum | $5,000 |
| Volcano Community Foundation | $3,000 |
| The Food Basket | $2,000 |
| Salvation Army | $1,500 |
| Christian Liberty School | $1,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,100 |
| Hawaii Pacific Parks Association | $1,000 |
| Hawaii Care Choices | $1,000 |
| Kona Historical Society | $1,000 |
| Puna Covenant Church | $1,000 |
| UH Foundation Imiloa Center | $1,000 |
| Puna Hongwanji Mission | $1,000 |
| Hilo Medical Center Foundation | $1,000 |
| Boys and Girls CLub of the Big Island | $1,000 |
| Lyman Museum | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HSHawaii Science and Technology Museum2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +429%
- HMHILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +156%
- KHKONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- HSHawaii Science Technology Museumone grant, 2023 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
- BABoys and Girls Club of Big Islandone grant, 2020 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance the cultural and natural landscape of the kiholo bay area through collaborative management and active community stewardship.
Our Mission is To collect, preserve, and disseminate the oral, written and pictorial history of Kauai County and to educate ourselves and the public about the history and cultures of Kauai and Niihau.
to rehabilitate, curate, and steward the natural and cultural resources of Kawa to honor the past, benefit the present, and preserve for the future generations of Ka'u, the Island of Hawaii and all humankind.
For the benefit and inspiration of ALL, Na Hoa Aloha o ka Pu'uhonua o Honaunau participates with NPS and other partners to protect and preserve cultural and natural resources, guided by the aacestral knowledge of South Kona.
The mission is to protect and preserve the natural and cultural resources of the hana moku and the customary and traditional practices of native hawaiians of the region; to preserve and manage the area's natural, cultural, scenic, historic…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Hawaii Science and Technology Museum ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds HILO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PUNA COVENANT CHURCH KEAAU HI ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE BIG ISLAND ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PACIFIC PARKS ASSOCIATION LTD FKA HI NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION LTD ↗
- Who funds Pacific Tsunami Museum Inc ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Caroline Shipman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Caroline Shipman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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