Hawaii · Public charity
The People's Fund
Hawai`I people`s fund supports, funds, and amplifies the work of hawai`I- based grassroots organizations challenging systems of oppression.
- $980k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $953k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,537
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 54
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations The People's Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $328k 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 | 47 | $953k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 54 | $1.2M | 37% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $507k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $505k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $386k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $171k | 82% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $60k | 75% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $49k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Koihonua | $184,527 | 5 | 8% |
| Pacific American Foundation | $152,751 | 6 | 1% |
| Hawaii Peace and Justice | $135,185 | 4 | 18% |
| Hui O Kuapa | $132,945 | 5 | 30% |
| Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc | $107,155 | 4 | 1% |
| Hawaii Workers Center | $106,207 | 6 | 12% |
| Kuhialoko | $91,314 | 6 | 18% |
| Kipuka Kuleana Inc | $89,815 | 4 | 19% |
| Malama Makua | $88,759 | 6 | n/a |
| Mana Maoli | $86,787 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 86 grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($534k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The People's Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 57 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Atherton Family Foundation · Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement · Cooke Foundation Limited · Stupski Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Hmsa Foundation · First Nations Development Institute · Ndn Collective Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Harold Kl Castle Foundation
How this is measured
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About The People's Fund
- How much does The People's Fund give?
- The People's Fund reported 47 itemized grants totaling $952,812, out of $979,772 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 54 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The People's Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (17%), Arts & Culture (15%), Education (11%).
- Who are The People's Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Koihonua ($185k), Pacific American Foundation ($153k), Hawaii Peace and Justice ($135k).
- Does The People's Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The People's Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools, Atherton Family Foundation, Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement.
- Where is The People's Fund based?
- The People's Fund is based in HI.
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