How much does Elsie Wilcox Foundation give?

Elsie Wilcox Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $60,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Elsie Wilcox Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Youth Development (13%), Food & Nutrition (12%).

Who are Elsie Wilcox Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Island School ($33k), Big Brothers Big Sisters Hawaii Inc ($28k), Hawaii Foodbank Inc ($25k).

Does Elsie Wilcox Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Elsie Wilcox 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 Elsie Wilcox Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Atherton Family Foundation, Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn, McInerny Foundation--.

Where is Elsie Wilcox Foundation based?

Elsie Wilcox Foundation is based in HI.

Foundation Dossiers

Hawaii · Private foundation

Elsie Wilcox Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$60k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 16
Grants FY2025: 15
Organizations funded FY2024: 33%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $4,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $5,000
Organizations funded a year: 10 to 17; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $1.3M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Elsie Wilcox Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	16	$60k	25%
FY2024	15	$55k	33%
FY2023	13	$50k	8%
FY2022	17	$84k	41%
FY2021	10	$50k	40%
FY2020	11	$45k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$79kYouth Development$45kFood & Nutrition$43kEducation$42kHuman Services$31kEnvironment$28kHealth$28kPublic Safety & Disaster$24kOther$0

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
Island School	$32,749	6	0%
Big Brothers Big Sisters Hawaii Inc	$27,500	6	0%
Hawaii Foodbank Inc	$25,000	5	0%
Waimea Sugar Mill Museum	$23,500	4	n/a
Helping Hands Hawaii	$23,000	5	0%
National Tropical Botanical Garden	$21,000	5	0%
Hawaii Academy of Science	$20,500	6	1%
Waioli Corporation	$19,500	4	1%
Honolulu Theatre for Youth	$15,000	5	0%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$15,000	2	0%

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All grantees of Elsie Wilcox Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Island School	$32,749	6	0%
Big Brothers Big Sisters Hawaii Inc	$27,500	6	0%
Hawaii Foodbank Inc	$25,000	5	0%
Waimea Sugar Mill Museum	$23,500	4	n/a
Helping Hands Hawaii	$23,000	5	0%
National Tropical Botanical Garden	$21,000	5	0%
Hawaii Academy of Science	$20,500	6	1%
Waioli Corporation	$19,500	4	1%
Honolulu Theatre for Youth	$15,000	5	0%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$15,000	2	0%
American Cancer Society Inc	$14,000	4	0%
Hawaii Opera Theatre	$13,000	4	0%
Kauai North Shore Food Pantry	$12,500	3	2%
Girl Scouts of Hawaii	$12,500	4	0%
Young Women's Christian Association of Kauai	$8,000	2	0%
Bridge - Kauai to College	$5,000	1	n/a
Kauai Planning & Action Alliance Inc	$5,000	1	1%
Equine Therapy Inc	$5,000	1	2%
Malama Kauai	$5,000	1	n/a
Project Vision Hawaii	$5,000	1	0%
Hawaii Children's Cancer Foundation	$4,000	1	1%
Hui O Laka	$3,500	1	1%
Boys & Girls Club of Hawaii	$3,000	1	n/a
Hawaii Council for Humanities	$2,500	1	0%
Hawaii Public Television Foundation Dba Pbs Hawaii	$2,000	1	0%
Book Trust	$2,000	1	0%
Hawaiian Islands Land Trust	$2,000	1	n/a
Haloalaunuiakea Early Learning Center	$2,000	1	0%
Boy Scouts of America -- Aloha Council	$2,000	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($14k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Elsie Wilcox Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Atherton Family FoundationHI36.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atherton Family Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · McInerny Foundation-- · Cooke Foundation Limited · George N Wilcox General Trust · The Clarence Tc Ching Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · The Cades Foundation · Kosasa Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Elsie Wilcox Foundation

How much does Elsie Wilcox Foundation give?: Elsie Wilcox Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $60,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Elsie Wilcox Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Youth Development (13%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
Who are Elsie Wilcox Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Island School ($33k), Big Brothers Big Sisters Hawaii Inc ($28k), Hawaii Foodbank Inc ($25k).
Does Elsie Wilcox Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Elsie Wilcox 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 Elsie Wilcox Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Atherton Family Foundation, Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn, McInerny Foundation--.
Where is Elsie Wilcox Foundation based?: Elsie Wilcox Foundation is based in HI.