Hawaii Community Foundation
Contact information:
Oahu Office:
1164 Bishop Street, Suite 800
Honolulu, HI 96813
Phone: 808-537-6333
Fax: 808-521-6286
Hawaii Office:
65-1279 Kawaihae Road
Kamuela, HI 96743
Phone: 808-885-2174
Fax: 808-885-1857
Kauai Office:
4370 Kukui Grove Street, Suite 207
Lihu'e, HI 96766
Phone: 808-245-4585
Fax: 808-245-5189
Maui Office:
2241B Vineyard Street
Wailuku, HI 96793
Phone: 808-242-6184
Fax: 808-242-1505
Website: http://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/
Type of foundation: Community
Types of grants: Capacity-building, program, scholarship.
Description: The Hawaii Community Foundation distributes charitable funds to Hawaii's nonprofit organizations through a variety of programs. The Foundation runs an Organizational Capacity-Building program that includes multiple grant opportunities for different stages of the capacity-building process (e.g., planning, implementation, executive transitions, strategic partnerships). More information on capacity-building grants is available online. Capacity-building implementation grants have supported such projects as integrating evaluation into a learning organization, utilizing online fundraising, increasing marketing and public relations, implementing an improved computer server system, hiring a major giving/planned giving consultant, etc.
The Foundation administers grantmaking for several private foundations (list available online). In addition, the Foundation administers a number of smaller funds focused on supporting specific fields of interest, including community capacity-building, leadership development, health, environment, etc. Among these are, for example:
- The Pikake Fund (field of interest: environment), which makes small grants for film/video projects addressing Hawaii's environment. Grants are made only in even years.
- Hawaii Children's Trust Fund (field of interest: human services), which makes grants to increase awareness of activities and strategies that prevent child abuse and strengthen families.
- Annie Sinclair Knudsen Fund (field of interest: geographic-specific funds), which supports projects that benefit the people, flora and fauna of Kauai.
A full list of funds by Field of Interest is available online. All of the competitive grant programs have their own funding priorities and proposal requirements.
Sample grants:
- $107,855 to Hawaii Public Television Foundation (2007).
- $25,000 to Hawaii Alliance for Arts Education (2007).
- $10,200 to Hawaii Public Radio (donor-advised; 2007).
- $9,710 to Hawaii International Film Festival (2007).
- $3,490 to Hawaii Public Television Foundation (donor-advised; 2007).
- $2,400 to Kukuna O Ka La – Media for the Hawaiian Nation (2007).
- $1,000 to National Public Radio (donor-advised; 2007).
- $500 to Hawaii Public Radio (2007).
Fit for public broadcasting: There is a good fit with public media serving Hawaii.
Eligibility: Eligible organizations will have 501(c)(3) status or be a unit of government. Giving (aside from donor-advised funds) is limited mainly to organizations in Hawaii.
Generally, no funding for:
- Endowments.
- Loans.
- Individuals (except for the Foundation's Scholarship program).
- Large capital projects.
- Funding after an event has occurred.
Deadline: Competitive grant programs have their own deadlines. View competitive grant opportunity deadlines online.
How to apply: Guidelines, application forms and/or Requests for Proposals are available online, sorted by Field of Interest. It's fine to contact a program officer to discuss a project in advance.
Giving range: Grants range up to about $300,000. Organizational capacity-building grants are lower for planning, but go up to approximately $80,000 for implementation.
Assets: $324,561,443 (2007)
Total giving: $3,053,458 in grants from donor-advised funds; $20,228,746 in other grants
View 2009 Annual Report.
