How much does The Strong Foundation give?

The Strong Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $1,500,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 22 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does The Strong Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (25%), Arts & Culture (23%), Environment (11%).

Who are The Strong Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: University of Hawaii Foundation ($225k), Teach for America Inc ($200k), Hawaii Theatre Center ($200k).

Does The Strong Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Strong Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Strong Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Atherton Family Foundation, Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn, Cooke Foundation Limited.

Where is The Strong Foundation based?

The Strong Foundation is based in HI.

Foundation Dossiers

Hawaii · Private foundation

The Strong Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 16
Grants FY2024: 22
Organizations funded FY2023: 64%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $100,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $100,000
Organizations funded a year: 13 to 22; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $24M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 64% of the organizations The Strong Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsOther

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	15	$1.4M	33%
FY2023	22	$1.5M	64%
FY2022	16	$1.5M	69%
FY2021	13	$1.3M	100%
FY2020	19	$1.2M	100%
FY2019	19	$1.5M	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, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$2.2MArts & Culture$2.1MEnvironment$1.0MHealth$1.0MYouth Development$735kHuman Services$580kAnimals$280kFood & Nutrition$245kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 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 Foundation	$225,000	2	0%
Teach for America Inc	$200,000	2	0%
Hawaii Theatre Center	$200,000	2	9%
Island School	$200,000	2	1%
Girl Scouts of Hawaii	$200,000	2	3%
Manoa Heritage Center Fka Manoa Valley Cultural Heritage Found	$200,000	2	14%
Carden Academy of Maui	$200,000	2	4%
Hui No'Eau	$200,000	2	7%
Maui Health Foundation	$200,000	1	4%
Real Ongoing Opportunities to Soar Inc	$200,000	2	14%

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All grantees of The Strong Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Hawaii Foundation	$225,000	2	0%
Teach for America Inc	$200,000	2	0%
Hawaii Theatre Center	$200,000	2	9%
Island School	$200,000	2	1%
Girl Scouts of Hawaii	$200,000	2	3%
Manoa Heritage Center Fka Manoa Valley Cultural Heritage Found	$200,000	2	14%
Carden Academy of Maui	$200,000	2	4%
Hui No'Eau	$200,000	2	7%
Maui Health Foundation	$200,000	1	4%
Real Ongoing Opportunities to Soar Inc	$200,000	2	14%
Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation	$200,000	2	7%
Assistance Dogs of Hawaii	$180,000	2	7%
Pacific Cancer Foundation	$175,000	2	17%
Hawaii Opera Theatre	$175,000	2	3%
Kapi'olani Health Foundation	$150,000	2	1%
Ho'Ola Na Pua	$150,000	2	2%
Child and Family Service	$140,000	2	0%
Ma Ka Hana Ka Ike Building Program	$135,000	2	2%
Bishop Museum	$125,000	2	1%
Seabury Hall	$100,000	1	1%
Variety School of Hawaii	$100,000	1	5%
Molokai Land Trust	$100,000	1	19%
The Friends of Iolani Palace	$100,000	1	3%
Kokua Hawaii Foundation	$100,000	1	7%
Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services	$100,000	1	0%
Hawaiian Islands Land Trust	$100,000	1	2%
Hui O Waa Kaulua	$100,000	2	26%
Maui Arts & Cultural Center	$100,000	1	2%
Ka Lima O Maui Ltd	$100,000	1	2%
The Maui Farm Inc	$100,000	1	13%
Boys & Girls Club of Hawaii	$100,000	2	1%
The Lahaina Restoration Foundation	$100,000	1	5%
St Andrew's Schools	$100,000	1	n/a
Malama Na Makua a Keiki Inc	$100,000	1	5%
Hawaii Pacific University	$100,000	1	0%
Maryknoll Schools	$100,000	1	n/a
Boys & Girls Clubs of Maui Inc	$100,000	1	3%
Living Pono Project	$100,000	1	6%
Diamond Head Theatre	$100,000	1	2%
Parker School	$100,000	1	1%
Hui Hooleimaluo	$100,000	1	7%
Haleakala Conservancy Inc	$100,000	1	n/a
Historic Hawai'I Foundation	$100,000	1	8%
Maui Academy of Performing Arts	$100,000	1	9%
Feeding Hawaii Together	$100,000	1	6%
Straub Foundation	$100,000	1	2%
Hawaiian Humane Society	$100,000	1	1%
Chaminade University of Honolulu	$100,000	1	0%
Pono Academy	$100,000	1	100%
Awaiaulu Inc	$92,290	1	5%
Kauai Planning & Action Alliance Inc	$90,221	1	33%
La'Akea Village	$90,000	1	9%
Waioli Corporation	$78,885	1	18%
National Tropical Botanical Garden	$75,160	1	1%
Boy Scouts of America -- Aloha Council	$75,000	1	n/a
Ballet Hawaii	$75,000	2	3%
Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum	$75,000	1	1%
Uhiwai O Haleakala	$70,000	1	n/a
Aloha Medical Mission	$50,000	1	7%
Lyman House Memorial Museum	$50,000	1	4%
Moanalua Gardens Foundation Inc	$50,000	2	7%
Polynesian Voyaging Society	$50,000	1	5%
Special Olympics Hawaii Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Akaka Foundation for Tropical Forests	$50,000	1	7%
Hawai'I Forest Institute	$50,000	1	22%
Na Aikane O Maui Inc	$50,000	1	2%
Montessori of Maui Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Ohana Komputer	$40,000	1	27%
Rotary District 5000 Foundation	$25,000	1	10%
Parents and Children Together	$25,000	1	0%
Na Kama Kai	$15,000	1	5%
Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Foundation	$9,165	1	4%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($720k), not named here.

The Strong Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 67 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

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 67.

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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 FoundationHI85.1× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atherton Family Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Cooke Foundation Limited · J Watumull Fund · McInerny Foundation-- · Kosasa Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · Fred Baldwin Memorial 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 The Strong Foundation

How much does The Strong Foundation give?: The Strong Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $1,500,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 22 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The Strong Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (25%), Arts & Culture (23%), Environment (11%).
Who are The Strong Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: University of Hawaii Foundation ($225k), Teach for America Inc ($200k), Hawaii Theatre Center ($200k).
Does The Strong Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Strong Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Strong Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Atherton Family Foundation, Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn, Cooke Foundation Limited.
Where is The Strong Foundation based?: The Strong Foundation is based in HI.