Hawaii · Private foundation
Fontel 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.
- $59k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 19
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $336k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Fontel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% 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 | 19 | $59k | 37% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $59k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $59k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $55k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $47k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $46k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaiian Humane Society | $25,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of the South | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Unity Church of Hawaii | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Nj Institute of Technology | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Hawaii Foodbank Inc | $12,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ihs the Institute for Human Services Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Straub Foundation | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Mediation Center of the Pacific Inc | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Navy Hale Keiki School Inc | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| AARP Foundation | $6,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaiian Humane Society | $25,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of the South | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Unity Church of Hawaii | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Nj Institute of Technology | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Hawaii Foodbank Inc | $12,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ihs the Institute for Human Services Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Straub Foundation | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Mediation Center of the Pacific Inc | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Navy Hale Keiki School Inc | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| AARP Foundation | $6,500 | 3 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hula Preservation Society | $4,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Sacred Hearts Academy | $4,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Straub Clinic & Hospital | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chamber Music Hawaii | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Habilitat Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hospice Hawaii Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hopestart International Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Coral Conservancy | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Samaritan Ministries International | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tax Foundation of Hawaii | $750 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($165k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fontel Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Atherton Family Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Aloha United Way Inc · McInerny Foundation-- · Tradewind Group Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Castiglione A Casauria Foundation · The Cades Foundation · Kosasa Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn
How this is measured
About Fontel Foundation
- How much does Fontel Foundation give?
- Fontel Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $59,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Fontel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Health (15%), Civil Rights (9%).
- Who are Fontel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Hawaiian Humane Society ($25k), University of the South ($25k), Unity Church of Hawaii ($15k).
- Does Fontel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fontel 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 Fontel Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Atherton Family Foundation, First Hawaiian Bank Foundation, J Watumull Fund.
- Where is Fontel Foundation based?
- Fontel Foundation is based in HI.
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