Hawaii · Private foundation
The Honda Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $218k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations The Honda Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k 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 | 23 | $218k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $222k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $227k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $261k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $245k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $337k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $212k | 52% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $236k | 47% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii Pacific University | $277,000 | 8 | 0% |
| East-West Center Foundation | $185,038 | 3 | 7% |
| University of Hawaii Foundation | $126,410 | 2 | 0% |
| National Dance Institute | $105,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Kitten Rescue | $71,030 | 5 | 1% |
| 1979 Legacy Corp | $70,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Search and Rescue Dogs of Pa Inc | $67,900 | 1 | n/a |
| FixNation Inc | $61,000 | 7 | 1% |
| International Center of Photography | $59,016 | 5 | 0% |
| The Actors' Fund of America | $42,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($931k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Honda Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Annenberg Foundation · Sempra Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Honda Foundation
- How much does The Honda Foundation give?
- The Honda Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $217,916 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Honda Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Arts & Culture (13%), Animals (11%).
- Who are The Honda Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hawaii Pacific University ($277k), East-West Center Foundation ($185k), University of Hawaii Foundation ($126k).
- Does The Honda Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Honda Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Honda Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Annenberg Foundation, Sempra Foundation, California Community Foundation.
- Where is The Honda Foundation based?
- The Honda Foundation is based in HI.
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