· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +52% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
232 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools. Bigger dots raise more.