Hawaii · Private foundation
Ernest H Hui Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $55k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Ernest H Hui Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 24 | $51k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $62k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $58k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $57k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $58k | 4% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $58k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $54k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $54k | 29% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Hawaii Foundation | $174,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Washington University | $66,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Foundation of the Rotary Club of Honolulu | $51,000 | 8 | 8% |
| Punahou School | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $17,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Aloha United Way Inc | $12,318 | 7 | 0% |
| Special Service for Groups Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Hawaii Public Television Foundation Dba Pbs Hawaii | $10,250 | 9 | 0% |
| Marshall & Yuko Hung Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hawaii Foodbank Inc | $8,900 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($34k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ernest H Hui Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 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: First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Atherton Family Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Cades Foundation · Hemic Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Ernest H Hui Family Foundation
- How much does Ernest H Hui Family Foundation give?
- Ernest H Hui Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $55,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ernest H Hui Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (54%), Philanthropy (15%), Environment (5%).
- Who are Ernest H Hui Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Hawaii Foundation ($175k), Washington University ($66k), Foundation of the Rotary Club of Honolulu ($51k).
- Does Ernest H Hui Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ernest H Hui Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ernest H Hui Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation, Central Pacific Bank Foundation, J Watumull Fund.
- Where is Ernest H Hui Family Foundation based?
- Ernest H Hui Family Foundation is based in HI.
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