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Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii

Honolulu, HI · EIN 99-0035510. Reported 219 grants totalling $21.0M to 219 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
2. How spread out its giving is. 219 distinct organizations, with 80% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is extreme concentration. A grantmaker sending three quarters of its money to one organization is in practice a support fund for that organization, whatever its classification says, and an unsolicited request is very unlikely to go anywhere.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $15,000 and the largest $16.7M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

0 of 219 (0%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

• Hawaii Business Pivot Grant Program $16.7M · 2020
  HELP BUSINESSES ADJUST TO MARKETPLACE CHANGES RESULTING FROM THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
• Charley's Taxi Radio Dispatch Corp $50,000 · 2023
  TO AWARD SMALL BUSINESSES THAT ENDURED A 25% LOSS OF INCOME OR MORE DURING THE PANDEMIC TO HELP PRESEVE AND REVITALIZE LOCAL BUSINESSES.

Giving by year

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

How to approach this grantmaker

1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Hawaii.
4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 219 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 733 Bishop St 1200, Honolulu, HI, 96813.

EIN 99-0035510 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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