Arts & Culture grants for nonprofits in Hawaii
291 private foundations reported 837 arts & culture grants to organizations in Hawaii on IRS 990-PF returns for tax year 2022 or later, $21.5M in all. 133 of them are based in Hawaii.
Foundations that fund arts & culture in Hawaii
20 of the 291: profiles in our foundation directory first, then by the number of arts & culture grants to Hawaii organizations on their latest return. Each shows its largest such grants.
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Amazonsmile Foundation
Seattle, WA · latest return: tax year 2023- Hawaii Public Television Foundation, Honolulu - General support$877
- Polynesian Voyaging Society, Honolulu - General support$805
- Taiko Arts Center, Honolulu - General support$413
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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc
Owings Mills, MD · latest return: tax year 2024- Partners in Development Foundation, Honolulu - To support the kawailoa youth and family wellness center partnership multiple organizations working together…$300,000
- Hookuaaina, Kailua - To support this organizations efforts to expand its cultivation of kalo (taro, a traditional hawaiian staple…$200,000
- Aloha United Way, Honolulu - To support the general operations of this organization, which aims to restore and strengthen the connection…$100,000
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Gave $36.3M in 2025
Gates Family Foundation
Denver, CO · latest return: tax year 2025- Bishop Museum, Honolulu - Unrestricted$8,000
- Hawaiian Mission Childrens Society, Honolulu - Unrestricted$7,000
- Kona Historical Society, Captain Cook - Unrestricted$2,000
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Gave $20.4M in 2024
The Freeman Foundation P-01644-00-7
New York, NY · latest return: tax year 2024- Children's Discovery Center, Honolulu - General support$75,000
- Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, Honolulu - General support$50,000
- Nisei Veteran's Memorial Center, Kahului - General support$40,000
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Gave $555M in 2024
The Andrew W Mellon Foundation
New York, NY · latest return: tax year 2024- Kuaina Ulu Auamo, Kneohe - To support place-based environmental heritage initiatives and network convenings, and organizational…$500,000
- Bishop Museum, Honolulu - To continue support for a leadership program focused on indigenous frameworks for curators of hawaiian and…$300,000
- Hoaka Mana, Kaunakakai - To support general operations$150,000
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Stupski Foundation
San Francisco, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- Honolulu Civil Beat Inc, Honolulu - To provide general operating support.$300,000
- Wisdom Circles Oceania, Kaneohe - To support the Story Quilt Youth Arts, Creative Community Workers, and Opio Protectors Network programs.$72,500
- Hawaii Public Television Foundation, Honolulu - To sponsor Mauka to Makai: Our Kuleana Climate Change Initiative.$8,000
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Novo Foundation
Hurley, NY · latest return: tax year 2024- 'Aha Punana Leo, Hilo - General support$250,000
- Worldwide Indigenous Science Network, Lahaina - Lahaina community regranting$250,000
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Gave $185.4M in 2024
The Schmidt Family Foundation
Palo Alto, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- Kuaaina Ulu Auamo, Kaneohe - Supporting indigenous communities' land stewardship, self-determination, and cultural representation$200,000
- Polynesian Voyaging Society, Honolulu - Ocean stewardship and research$75,000
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Gave $844.7M in 2024
The Ford Foundation
New York, NY · latest return: tax year 2024- Pai Foundation, Honolulu - General support$100,000
- Making Waves Films LLC, Honolulu - For the production of "I of the water," a feature documentary film about acclaimed samoan writer sia figiel$50,000
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Patagoniaorg
Ventura, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- Ke Kula Nui O Waimanalo, Waimanalo - To support environmental projects.$10,000
- Malama Pupukea-Waimea, Haleiwa - To support environmental projects.$10,000
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Gave $622.6M in 2024
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Princeton, NJ · latest return: tax year 2024- Hawaii International Film Festival, Honolulu - Supporting the production of the makawalu film to raise awareness and build skills of native hawaiian-driven…$810,000
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The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc
New York, NY · latest return: tax year 2024- Bishop Museum, Honolulu - To support public art challenge$700,000
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Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation
Palo Alto, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- Makauila, Honolulu - To support the development of a culturally-centered governance model for mutual stewardship of maunakea.$621,771
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The Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation
Los Angeles, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- Mana Maoli, Honolulu - To fund expenses related to the production of the film 'rising from the ashes" to inspire the continued…$150,000
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Wayne and Nan Kocourek Foundation
Buffalo Grove, IL · latest return: tax year 2025- Maui Arts and Cultural Center, Kahului - To support operational and program expenses.$125,000
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Ray Foundation Inc
Naples, FL · latest return: tax year 2024- Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, Honolulu - Flight scholarship funding support$125,000
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Gave $14.4M in 2024
E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation
Radnor, PA · latest return: tax year 2024- Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu - Help with shipping costs of bringing the exhbition, "tsherin sherpa displacement" from the virginia museum of…$100,000
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Gave $10.8M in 2024
The William G Irwin Charity Foundation
San Francisco, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- National Tropical Botanical Garden, Kalaheo - Adapting a fishing cottage for educational and cultural use$77,000
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Gave $15.4M in 2024
Terra Foundation for American Art
Chicago, IL · latest return: tax year 2024- Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu - Arts education$75,000
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Gave $147.7M in 2024
John S and James L Knight Foundation Inc
Miami, FL · latest return: tax year 2024- Honolulu Civil Beat, Honolulu - To partially fund a position to report on the environmental impact of the wildfires that devastated maui…$75,000
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Organizations several of these foundations fund
Hawaii organizations that received arts & culture grants from two or more of the foundations above, on the same returns.
| Organization | Funders | Grants total |
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| Bishop Museum Honolulu | 4 | $1,008,275 |
| Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum Honolulu | 4 | $200,325 |
| Honolulu Civil Beat Inc Honolulu | 3 | $375,082 |
| Polynesian Voyaging Society Honolulu | 3 | $77,805 |
| Hawaii International Film Festival Honolulu | 2 | $810,016 |
| Hookuaaina Kailua | 2 | $390,060 |
| Aha Punana Leo Hilo | 2 | $250,193 |
| Worldwide Indigenous Science Network Lahaina | 2 | $250,028 |
| Honolulu Museum of Art Honolulu | 2 | $175,000 |
| Maui Arts & Cultural Center Kahului | 2 | $125,018 |
How to use this list
A foundation is listed because its own latest tax return itemizes grants to organizations in Hawaii that we classify as arts & culture, by the purpose the foundation wrote or by the recipient's IRS activity code. Their typical grant is the middle of the funders' own typical grants across everything they fund. Start with funders whose typical grant is close to what you need and whose past recipients look like your organization, then open the profile for all of its grants and any application instructions.
Of these 291 foundations, 101 describe how to apply on their latest return; many others give only to organizations they already know. A badge such as Gave $1.2M in 2024 repeats what the latest return reports; it does not mean the foundation is accepting proposals now.
Facts on this page come from the foundation's own IRS Form 990-PF filings as published by the IRS. Grantvello does not know whether a foundation is accepting proposals right now: a past grant is not an open opportunity. Always confirm current guidelines with the funder before applying.