How much does Hawaii Council for Humanities give?

Hawaii Council for Humanities reported 20 grants totaling $192,830 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Hawaii Council for Humanities fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (77%), Environment (6%), Human Services (5%).

Who are Hawaii Council for Humanities's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Hawaii System ($120k), Bishop Museum ($62k), Kona Historical Society ($60k).

Does Hawaii Council for Humanities fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Hawaii Council for Humanities based?

Hawaii Council for Humanities is based in HI.

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Hawaii · Public charity

Hawaii Council for Humanities

To promote awareness of the humanities to the general public.

$193k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 20
Grants FY2024: 16
Organizations funded FY2023: 44%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $10,000
Organizations funded a year: 7 to 41; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $1.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Hawaii Council for Humanities funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther

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
FY2024still arriving	19	$198k	58%
FY2023	16	$162k	44%
FY2022	37	$684k	49%
FY2021	15	$194k	47%
FY2020	41	$501k	78%
FY2019	7	$62k	57%
FY2018	10	$91k	70%
FY2017	9	$87k	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, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.5MEnvironment$123kHuman Services$99kEducation$70kCommunity Improvement$44kInternational$38kCrime & Legal$24kYouth Development$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Hawaii System	$119,825	6	n/a
Bishop Museum	$62,000	5	0%
Kona Historical Society	$60,300	3	7%
Hawaiian Mission Children's Society	$58,050	5	2%
Maui Arts & Cultural Center	$55,000	4	0%
Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services	$55,000	3	0%
The Friends of Iolani Palace	$52,000	3	1%
Bamboo Ridge Press	$47,254	6	7%
Manoa Heritage Center Fka Manoa Valley Cultural Heritage Found	$45,000	3	3%
Historic Hawai'I Foundation	$42,500	3	1%

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All grantees of Hawaii Council for Humanities by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Hawaii System	$119,825	6	n/a
Bishop Museum	$62,000	5	0%
Kona Historical Society	$60,300	3	7%
Hawaiian Mission Children's Society	$58,050	5	2%
Maui Arts & Cultural Center	$55,000	4	0%
Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services	$55,000	3	0%
The Friends of Iolani Palace	$52,000	3	1%
Bamboo Ridge Press	$47,254	6	7%
Manoa Heritage Center Fka Manoa Valley Cultural Heritage Found	$45,000	3	3%
Historic Hawai'I Foundation	$42,500	3	1%
Honolulu Museum of Art	$42,000	3	0%
Read to Me International Foundation	$35,000	3	3%
Holualoa Foundation for Arts & Culture	$35,000	3	2%
Daughters of Hawaii	$35,000	2	5%
The Lahaina Restoration Foundation	$34,991	2	2%
Hawaii International Film Festival	$31,000	2	2%
Kauai Museum Association Ltd	$30,000	1	8%
Kualoa-Heeia Ecumenical Youth Project	$30,000	2	2%
East Hawaii Cultural Council	$30,000	2	10%
Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii	$30,000	1	10%
Merwin Conservancy Inc	$29,680	2	4%
Kauluakalana	$29,321	2	4%
Hui No'Eau	$29,050	2	1%
Lana'I Culture & Heritage Center	$28,000	2	8%
Hawaiian Historical Society	$27,000	3	7%
Hana Arts Inc	$25,000	2	3%
Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Society Inc	$25,000	2	6%
Dancers Unlimited	$25,000	2	9%
Krause Family Foundation Alana Ke Aloha	$20,000	2	12%
Hawaii United Okinawa Association	$20,000	1	2%
Pu'A Foundation	$20,000	2	6%
The Center for Independent Documentary Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Kua Aina Ulu Auamo	$20,000	1	1%
Palama Settlement	$20,000	2	0%
Ka'Ohana O Kalaupapa	$20,000	2	10%
Aloha Kuamo'O' Aina	$20,000	2	67%
Biographical Research Center	$20,000	2	n/a
Friends of Waipahu Cultural Garden Park	$20,000	2	9%
Moanalua Gardens Foundation Inc	$20,000	1	3%
Maunalua Fishpond Heritage Center	$20,000	1	11%
Ceeds of Peace	$18,407	1	4%
Papahana Kuaola	$18,276	1	n/a
Congregation of the Sacred Hearts-United States Province	$16,697	1	n/a
Lyman House Memorial Museum	$15,000	1	1%
Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum	$15,000	1	0%
Hui Malama I Ke Ala Ulili	$15,000	1	2%
Pacific Historic Parks	$15,000	1	0%
Makauila Inc	$15,000	1	2%
West Kauai Hongwanji Mission	$15,000	1	n/a
Institute for Native Pacific Education and Culture	$15,000	1	0%
Civic Education Council	$14,970	1	100%
Malama Loko Ea Foundation	$14,798	1	1%
Hui O Laka	$12,500	1	2%
Ka'Ala Farm Inc	$11,385	1	2%
Waioli Corporation	$10,115	1	3%
Filipino Association of University Women	$10,000	1	n/a
Volcano Art Center	$10,000	1	1%
Kohala Institute	$10,000	1	1%
Pacific American Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Story for All	$10,000	1	14%
Pacific Tsunami Museum Inc	$10,000	1	5%
Kealakai Center For Pacific String Traditions	$10,000	1	13%
The Hawaiian Legacy Foundation	$10,000	1	9%
Malama Learning Center	$10,000	1	1%
Friends of King Kaumualii	$10,000	1	n/a
Papahana Kuaola	$10,000	1	1%
Hale Puna	$10,000	1	8%
Honolulu Biennial Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
The Outdoor Circle	$10,000	1	2%
Enlivened Cooperative	$10,000	1	16%
Proarts Inc	$10,000	1	8%
North Kohala Community Resource Center	$10,000	1	1%
North Hawaii Heritage Foundation	$10,000	1	2%
Maui Academy of Performing Arts	$10,000	1	1%
Kumu Kahua Theatre Inc	$10,000	1	3%
African American Diversity Cultural Center Hawaii	$10,000	1	33%
Center for Cultural & Technical Interchange Btwn East & West Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Hula Preservation Society	$10,000	1	2%
Kahuli Leo Lea	$10,000	1	2%
Aina Momona	$10,000	1	1%
Hawaii Symphony Orchestra	$10,000	1	0%
Hamakua Youth Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Ka Ipu Makani Cultural Heritage Center	$10,000	1	n/a
Honolulu Printmakers	$10,000	1	7%
Maui Historical Society	$10,000	1	6%
Playbuilders of Hawaii Theater Company	$10,000	1	n/a
Hawaii Book and Music Festival	$9,680	1	6%
Hawaii Ponoi Foundation	$8,112	1	n/a
Papaku No Kamehaikana	$7,725	1	n/a
Kauai Historical Society	$7,500	1	12%
The People's Fund	$7,000	1	4%
Interisland Terminal	$6,260	1	n/a
Lyman House Memorial Mueseum	$4,500	1	n/a
The Liljestrand Foundation	$4,234	1	1%
The Legal Clinic	$4,233	1	1%

Hawaii Council for Humanities supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 81 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 81.

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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 FoundationHI81.1× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atherton Family Foundation · Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement · Cooke Foundation Limited · Kosasa Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Aloha United Way Inc · Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau · J Watumull Fund · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Historic Hawai'I Foundation · The Strong 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 Hawaii Council for Humanities

How much does Hawaii Council for Humanities give?: Hawaii Council for Humanities reported 20 grants totaling $192,830 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Hawaii Council for Humanities fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (77%), Environment (6%), Human Services (5%).
Who are Hawaii Council for Humanities's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Hawaii System ($120k), Bishop Museum ($62k), Kona Historical Society ($60k).
Does Hawaii Council for Humanities fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hawaii Council for Humanities?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Atherton Family Foundation, Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools, Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement.
Where is Hawaii Council for Humanities based?: Hawaii Council for Humanities is based in HI.