Hawaii · Private foundation
Laulima 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.
- $92k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Laulima Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 6 | $92k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $15k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $84k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $59k | 77% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $62k | 69% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $134k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $173k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $173k | 89% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 'Iolani School | $363,450 | 8 | 0% |
| Chaminade University of Honolulu | $93,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Child and Family Service | $51,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Ho'Ola Na Pua | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Punahou School | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Catherine's School Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hawaii Ag and Culinary Alliance | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Queen's Medical Center | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Assets School | $16,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Youth Impact Program Inc | $15,000 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($70k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Laulima 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: First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Aloha United Way Inc · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Atherton Family Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · McInerny Foundation-- · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Chung Kun Ai Foundation · The Queen's Medical Center
How this is measured
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About Laulima Foundation
- How much does Laulima Foundation give?
- Laulima Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $92,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Laulima Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (62%), Human Services (14%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are Laulima Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: 'Iolani School ($363k), Chaminade University of Honolulu ($94k), Child and Family Service ($52k).
- Does Laulima Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Laulima 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 Laulima Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation, Tradewind Group Foundation, J Watumull Fund.
- Where is Laulima Foundation based?
- Laulima Foundation is based in HI.
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