· Public charity
Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools
Kamehameha schools' mission is to fulfill pauahi's desire to create educational opportunities in perpetuity to improve the capability and well-being of people of hawaiian ancestry.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 109 grants below total $33,378,623 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $106,803,433 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $73,424,810 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k11 grants · $302k
- $50k–250k61 grants · $7.9M
- $250k+37 grants · $25M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LOUIS SCHOOL | $1,847,100 |
| CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU MISC | $1,672,131 |
| PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $1,617,498 |
| INSTITUTE FOR NATIVE PACIFIC EDUCATION & | $1,465,391 |
| AHA PUNANA LEO | $1,412,681 |
| PARKWAY VILLAGE PRESCHOOL | $1,081,102 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII MISC | $1,015,634 |
| KE KULA O PIILANI | $931,000 |
| HOOKAKOO CORPORATION | $892,694 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION | $790,000 |
| NA KALAI WAA MOKU O KEAWE | $772,440 |
| KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE | $771,514 |
| HALAU KEALAOKAMAILE | $700,000 |
| KAKOO OIWI | $675,000 |
| PURPLE MAIA FOUNDATION | $642,847 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $17.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
179 repeat relationships — 93 still active in FY2025, 86 since wound down; 11 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CUCHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU9× · 2017–2025 · $21M · revenue +43%
- APAHA PUNANA LEO9× · 2017–2025 · $17M · revenue +55% · 37% of their budget
- PIPARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $15M · revenue +11%
Funded once
- SPSCHOLARSHIPS - PRESCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $14M
- KPKP7 PARTNERS LLLPone grant, 2024 · $998k
- KWKA WAIHONA O KA NA'AUAO 21ST PCSone grant, 2017 · $901k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
to rehabilitate, curate, and steward the natural and cultural resources of Kawa to honor the past, benefit the present, and preserve for the future generations of Ka'u, the Island of Hawaii and all humankind.
Operating exclusively for charitable, educational, scientific, and literary purposes, the organization preserves and advances Native Hawaiian culture through education, leadership, and STREAMY integration: Sciences, Technologies, Reading,…
Kalauokekahuli encourages the healthy growth of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander families by supporting and enhancing the well-being of birthing people, parents, and their infants with holistic, multi-generational, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners in Development Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Consuelo Zobel Alger Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
232 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 232 of the 274 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU ↗
- Who funds AHA PUNANA LEO ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HO'OKAKO'O CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR NATIVE PACIFIC EDUCATION AND CULTURE ↗
- Who funds KANU O KA AINA LEARNING OHANA ↗
- Who funds ALU LIKE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LEEWARD COAST PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KE ALI'I PAUAHI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAIANAE COMMUNITY RE-DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KEIKI O KA 'AINA PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds PAPAHANA KUAOLA ↗
- Who funds PURPLE MAIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HO'OULU LAHUI ↗
- Who funds WAIPA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISLAND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HUI HOOLEIMALUO ↗
- Who funds SUPPORTING THE LANGUAGE OF KAUA'I ↗
- Who funds PAEPAE O HE'EIA ↗
- Who funds KUPU ↗
- Who funds MALAMA HONUA PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KAI LOA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds KAKOO OIWI ↗
- Who funds MALAMA LOKO EA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONSORTIUM FOR HAWAII ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Leadership in Disabilities & Achievement of Hawaii ↗
- Who funds THREE MOUNTAIN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NA KALAI WA'A ↗
- Who funds HAWAI'I FOREST INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE KOHALA CENTER ↗
- Who funds ISLAND PACIFIC ACADEMY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Atherton Family Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · Harold Kl Castle Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Stupski Foundation · Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Tradewind Group Foundation · The Queen's Medical Center · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Kosasa Foundation · Hmsa Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.