Shiraki Memorial Foundation
Honolulu, HI · EIN 94-3274547. Reported 18 grants totalling $263,306 to 18 organizations across tax years 2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Shiraki Memorial Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $13,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,871 and $20,000; the smallest was $1,200 and the largest $40,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The First Lap | Waipahu, HI | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Various Christian Ministries | Honolulu, HI | $34,259 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gateway Baptist Seminary | Ontario, CA | $21,563 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Harvest Family Life | Wahiawa, HI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hawaii Baptist Academy | Honolulu, HI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Waipio Community Baptist Church | Waipahu, HI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary | Fort Worth, TX | $16,824 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary | Kansas City, MO | $15,941 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Baptist Collegiate Ministries O'ahu | Honolulu, HI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fellowship Baptist Church | Kaneohe, HI | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Life Christian Church | Honolulu, HI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Malama Christian Church | Nanakuli, HI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hawaii Pacific Baptist Convention | Honolulu, HI | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southern Baptist Theological Seminary | Louisville, KY | $5,871 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hamama Christian Church | Kaneohe, HI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oahu Baptist Network | Honolulu, HI | $4,305 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary | Wake Forest, NC | $3,343 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Connections Church | Kapolei, HI | $1,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- The First Lap
SUPPORT OF CHARITABLE PURPOSE - Gateway Baptist Seminary
SCHOLARSHIP FOR SEMINARY STUDENTS
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 3 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 76% of this one's giving went to organizations in Hawaii. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $13,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Hawaii.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Shiraki Memorial Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 4348 Waialae Avenue 592, Honolulu, HI, 96816. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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