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Elsie Wilcox Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

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
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAIMEA SUGAR MILL MUSEUM$5,000
HELPING HANDS HAWAII$5,000
ISLAND SCHOOL$5,000
MALAMA KAUAI$5,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII$5,000
HAWAII FOODBANK INC$5,000
KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY$4,500
WAIOLI CORPORATION$4,000
HAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE$3,500
NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN$3,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII$3,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$3,000
HONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH$2,500
HAWAII OPERA THEATRE$2,500
HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION$2,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%YWCA OF KAUAI: $5k → 9%KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $5k → 9%YWCA OF KAUAI: $3k → 9%KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $5k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $5k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $5k → 9%KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $3k → 9%HELPING HANDS HAWAII: $3k → 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$283k · 15 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
13

Total granted

$283k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+17%

Still filing today

93%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • IS
    ISLAND SCHOOL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue +55%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +19%
  • HF
    HAWAII FOODBANK INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • AN
    AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS (AKA AMERICAN RED CROSS)
    one grant, 2020 · $9k
  • BK
    BRIDGE - KAUAI TO COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • KP
    KAUAI PLANNING & ACTION ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -5%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
2
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

To improve the health and well-being of our community.

Human Services
3
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
4
Hawaii State Teachers Association

Served hsta members as their exclusive collective bargaining agent,administered members' contract negotiations with the state of hawaiiconcerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, fringe benefits, hoursand other employment conditions.

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5
Hui Aloha Kiholo

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Aina Hookupu O Kilauea

Improve the environmental, social & economic well-being of the kilauea community and kauai by developing county of kauai land into a community garden,individual farming plots, farmers market & other facilities.

Food & Nutrition
7
Kapi'olani Medical Specialists

Kapi'olani medical specialists (dba hawai'i pacific health medical group) is a multispecialty provider group dedicated to providing world-class care for adults and children across hawai'i and the pacific region working in partnership with…

Health
8
Kanu O Ka Aina Learning Ohana

Serving and perpetuating sustainable hawaiian communities through education with aloha.

Arts & Culture
9
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
10
Aloha Harvest

To rescue quality food to nourish and strengthen our community.

Food & Nutrition
11
Hawaii Workers Center

The hawaii workers center envisions a hawaii in which all workers are empowered to exercise their right to organize for their social, economic and political well-being.

Education
12
Papahana Kuaola

Papahana kuaola's mission is to create quality educational programs focused on environmental restoration and economic sustainability fully integrated with hawaiian knowledge in order to exemplify a lifestyle respectful of kanaka, `aina,…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hands Hawaii; the most unlike its peers is Equine Therapy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
19/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII INC: $27,500 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII INCWAIMEA SUGAR MILL MUSEUM: $23,500 · OtherWAIMEA SUGAR MILL MUSEUMAMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS (AKA AMERICAN RED CROSS): $9,000 · OtherAMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS (AKA AMERICA…BRIDGE - KAUAI TO COLLEGE: $5,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 · OtherHAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE: $20,500 · OtherHAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCEGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII: $12,500 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAIIKAUAI PLANNING & ACTION ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 · Other+6 more: $16,000 · Other+6 moreHELPING HANDS HAWAII: $23,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS HAWA…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $15,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National …KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $12,500 · Human ServicesKAUAI NORTH SHORE …YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KAUAI: $8,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRI…WAIOLI CORPORATION: $19,500 · Arts & CultureWAIOLI CORPORATIO…HONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH: $15,000 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU THEATRE …HAWAII OPERA THEATRE: $13,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII OPERA THEA…HUI O LAKA: $3,500 · Arts & CultureHUI O LAKAHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII: $2,000 · Arts & CultureISLAND SCHOOL: $32,749 · EducationISLAND SCHO…BOOK TRUST: $2,000 · EducationBOOK TRUSTHALOALAUNUIAKEA EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $2,000 · EducationHALOALAUNUI…NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $21,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL …MALAMA KAUAI: $5,000 · EnvironmentMALAMA KA…HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $2,000 · EnvironmentHAWAIIAN …HAWAII FOODBANK INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $14,000 · HealthEQUINE THERAPY INC: $5,000 · HealthPROJECT VISION HAWAII: $5,000 · Health
Other$124,000Human Services$58,500Arts & Culture$53,000Education$36,749Environment$28,000Food & Nutrition$25,000Health$24,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetISLAND SCHOOL: $32,749 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII INC: $27,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HANDS HAWAII: $23,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE: $20,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetWAIOLI CORPORATION: $19,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetHONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH: $15,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII OPERA THEATRE: $13,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $12,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII: $12,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KAUAI: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKAUAI PLANNING & ACTION ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEQUINE THERAPY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPROJECT VISION HAWAII: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHUI O LAKA: $3,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHAWAII COUNCIL FOR HUMANITIES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOOK TRUST: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHALOALAUNUIAKEA EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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 Found…Bank of Hawaii Charit…McInerny Foundation--Cooke Foundation Limi…George N Wilcox Gener…The Clarence Tc Ching…J Watumull FundCentral Pacific Bank …First Hawaiian Bank F…First Insurance Compa…The Cades FoundationKosasa Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Elsie Wilcox Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elsie Wilcox Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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