· Private foundation
Pacific Rainbow 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hawaii Foodbank | $15,000 |
| Institute for Human Services | $15,000 |
| Lanakila Pacific | $15,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $15,000 |
| River of Life Mission | $15,000 |
| REHAB Hospital of the Pacific | $10,000 |
| University of California - San Fran | $10,000 |
| Hawaii Literacy | $5,000 |
| Sts Peter Paul Catholic Church | $3,000 |
| Friends McCully-Moiliili Public Lib | $2,500 |
| Friends of Aina Haina Public Librar | $2,500 |
| Maven Manifold Development | $2,500 |
| Friends of Kalihi-Palama Public Lib | $2,500 |
| Never Quit Draming | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $34k) 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against -27% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HFHAWAII FOODBANK INC8× · 2018–2025 · $68k · revenue +107%
- ITIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $42k · revenue +23%
- LPLANAKILA PACIFIC4× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +28%
Funded once
COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENTone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -40%- KMKEEOLIKOLANI MIDDLE SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $10k
- HMHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INCone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue -27%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 41 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LANAKILA PACIFIC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds MAVEN MANIFOLD DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds NEVER QUIT DREAMING ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS HAWAII ↗
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 · J Watumull Fund · Aloha United Way Inc · Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · Hawaii Foodbank Inc · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Thomas and Sumie McCabe Foundation · Ben & Miriam Lau Foundation · Hemic Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pacific Rainbow Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pacific Rainbow Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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