Hawaii · Nonprofit
HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 1264 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,929,535 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($28,660,450). 234 of them have funded it in more than one year. HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$602M
Recipients
0
Contributions on record
$244M
Donors on record
1,283
Payments out run 2.5x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao Foundationshared funders
- Lloydmoore Foundationportfolio match
- Sergey Brin Family Foundationshared funders
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 3% · 2019 4% · 2020 33% · 2021 7% · 2022 5% · 2023 3% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 45 funders to 988 funders, grant income rose $4.3M → $65M.
157 of 1264 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.7M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1264 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 49 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $103M arriving through sponsors registered in 38 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 1264 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 63 organizations that share your funders
- Lloydmoore Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sergey Brin Family Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 69 organizations that share your funders
- Crankstart Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 71 organizations that share your funders
- Kpmg US Foundation Incshared fundersNJ · backs 94 organizations that share your funders
- Entertainment Industry Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 75 organizations that share your funders
- Tiaa Charitable Incshared fundersNC · backs 186 organizations that share your funders
- Horizons Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 69 organizations that share your funders
- Freedom Together Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 75 organizations that share your funders
- Deloitte Foundationshared fundersCT · backs 54 organizations that share your funders
- The Heising-Simons Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 78 organizations that share your funders
- The Pew Charitable Trustsshared fundersDC · backs 120 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.2M on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$3.2M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- Hcf Land Holding LLC · disregarded
- Parker Ranch Foundation Trust · exempt
- Cn Wodehouse Hawaii Children's Trust Fund · exempt
- Robert E Black Memorial Trust · exempt
- Prisanlee Trust · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
- HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 1264 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,929,535 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($28,660,450). 234 of them have funded it in more than one year. HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1264 organizations giving $240,929,535 in grants to HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, 234 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $28,660,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Hawaii. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1264funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing