The Teresa Hughes Trust concentrates its giving on child protection and family-support organizations across the Hawaiian Islands, with repeated, sizable grants to local Children's Justice Centers and established family-service agencies. Its funding is highly place-based (East Hawaiʻi, Maui, Oʻahu/Kalihi) and directed at frontline service providers that support abused and at-risk children and their families. The foundation favors a small set of recurring grantees rather than broad, one-off grants.
Teresa Hughes Trust’s recent giving is anchored by repeated support for the Children’s Justice Centers on Hawaiʻi Island and Maui, with $55,000 grants in 2025 to Friends of the Children's Justice Center of East Hawaii and Friends of the Children's Justice Center of Maui Inc. That pattern fits a larger portfolio focused on child protection, trauma response, and family support across the Hawaiian Islands. The foundation’s grants also reach organizations working with children, families, kupuna, and survivors of trafficking or domestic violence, usually through direct service providers rather than broad intermediaries. Across the latest grants, the trust returns to a small group of island-based recipients in Hilo, Wailuku, Honolulu, Ewa Beach, and Kailua-Kona. Child and Family Service received $45,000 grants in multiple years, while Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services and Catholic Charities Hawaii also appear repeatedly. The trust’s giving includes support for children with special needs, basic-needs assistance, and community health services, but its clearest pattern is consistent funding for frontline agencies serving vulnerable people in Hawaiʻi.
Child protection is the clearest theme in the trust’s grantmaking. It gave $50,000 in 2024 to Friends of the Children's Justice Center of East Hawaii and another $50,000 in 2024 to Friends of the Children's Justice Center of Maui Inc, both tied to justice-center support for children. Family-service funding is another recurring thread. Child and Family Service received $45,000 grants in 2023, 2024, and 2025, showing a multi-year relationship with one of the state’s established service providers. The trust also backs organizations addressing trafficking and survivor services. In 2023, it gave $30,000 to Susannah Wesley Community Center for the Beacon of Hope Trafficking Victim Assistance Program, and it supported Hoola Na Pua with $35,000 in 2025 after earlier $30,000 grants.
Typical grants cluster tightly around a core range: p25 of $20,000, median of $25,000, and p75 of $40,000. The recent record shows repeated awards to the same organizations across multiple years, especially child- and family-serving nonprofits, which suggests relationship-based funding rather than one-off support. The trust appears to operate as a private family foundation-style funder making direct charitable grants, and the recent grant list includes several project-specific or unsolicited awards. It does not make program-related investments and does not fund individuals.
$415K
$8.1M
$1.3M
$584K
Most grants fall between $20K and $40K, with a median of $25K.
25th Percentile
$20K
Median
$25K
75th Percentile
$40K
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Concentrated, place-based giving with multiple repeat grants to a few core grantees; majority of funding goes to large unrestricted/charitable grants for frontline child welfare and family services rather than many small or nationally distributed awards.
Notable grantees: Friends of the Children's Justice Center of East Hawaii, Friends of the Children's Justice Center of Maui, Child and Family Service, Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services
The trust gives entirely within the United States, and every recent grant in the file goes to recipients in Hawaiʻi. Grant activity is concentrated in Honolulu, with additional awards in Hilo, Wailuku, Ewa Beach, and Kailua-Kona. By recipient location, the most frequent pattern is island-by-island support: East Hawaiʻi and Maui justice-center groups, Honolulu-based health and social-service agencies, and a west Hawaiʻi children’s organization in Kailua-Kona.
Its recent grants center on child protection, trauma response, family services, community health, and support for kupuna. Recipients include Children's Justice Center affiliates, child and family service agencies, community health providers, and organizations serving trafficking survivors and domestic violence survivors.
No. The recent grant file shows 52 grants, all to recipients in the United States, and 100% of grants go to recipients in Hawaiʻi.
The grant-size distribution is tightly grouped around the mid-five-figure range: p25 is $20,000, the median is $25,000, and p75 is $40,000.
Yes. Several recipients appear across multiple years, including Child and Family Service, Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services, Catholic Charities Hawaii, Hoola Na Pua, and the Children’s Justice Center affiliates in East Hawaiʻi and Maui.
Recent grants land in Honolulu, Hilo, Wailuku, Ewa Beach, and Kailua-Kona, with the strongest concentration in Hawaiʻi overall and repeated support for island-based service providers across East Hawaiʻi, Maui, Oʻahu, and West Hawaiʻi.
2026
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2026.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES | HONOLULU, HI | $55,000 | 2026 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF EAST HAWAII | HILO, HI | $50,000 | 2026 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| PARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER | HONOLULU, HI | $50,000 | 2026 | UNRESTRICTED GIFT |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF MAUI INC | WAILUKU, HI | $50,000 | 2026 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII | HONOLULU, HI | $45,000 | 2026 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE | EWA BEACH, HI | $45,000 | 2026 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| HOOLA NA PUA | HONOLULU, HI | $30,000 | 2026 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF WEST HAWAII INC | KAILUAKONA, HI | $25,000 | 2026 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF HAWAII | HONOLULU, HI | $25,000 | 2026 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | HONOLULU, HI | $20,000 | 2026 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER | HONOLULU, HI | $20,000 | 2026 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF EAST HAWAII | HILO, HI | $55,000 | 2025 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF MAUI INC | WAILUKU, HI | $55,000 | 2025 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES | HONOLULU, HI | $45,000 | 2025 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE | EWA BEACH, HI | $45,000 | 2025 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII | HONOLULU, HI | $40,000 | 2025 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| HOOLA NA PUA | HONOLULU, HI | $35,000 | 2025 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF HAWAII | HONOLULU, HI | $25,000 | 2025 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF WEST HAWAII INC | KAILUAKONA, HI | $20,000 | 2025 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS | HONOLULU, HI | $20,000 | 2025 | UNRESTRICTED GIFT |
| FRIEND OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF OAHU | HONOLULU, HI | $20,000 | 2025 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | HONOLULU, HI | $20,000 | 2025 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF MAUI INC | WAILUKU, HI | $50,000 | 2024 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF EAST HAWAII | HILO, HI | $50,000 | 2024 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE | EWA BEACH, HI | $45,000 | 2024 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII | HONOLULU, HI | $40,000 | 2024 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES | HONOLULU, HI | $40,000 | 2024 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| HOOLA NA PUA | HONOLULU, HI | $30,000 | 2024 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF HAWAII | HONOLULU, HI | $25,000 | 2024 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| WAIKIKI COMMUNITY CENTER | HONOLULU, HI | $20,000 | 2024 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| FRIEND OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF OAHU | HONOLULU, HI | $20,000 | 2024 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| MAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION | WAILUKU, HI | $20,000 | 2024 | UNRESTRICTED GIFT |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF WEST HAWAII INC | KAILUAKONA, HI | $20,000 | 2024 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS | HONOLULU, HI | $20,000 | 2024 | UNRESTRICTED GIFT |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | HONOLULU, HI | $20,000 | 2024 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF EAST HAWAII | HILO, HI | $50,000 | 2023 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF EAST HAWAII | HILO, HI | $50,000 | 2023 | CHARITABLE GRANT TO FRIEND OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF EAST HAWAII PIN FOR CHILDREN - SPECIAL NEEDS & ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM (CHILDREN) |
| CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE | EWA BEACH, HI | $45,000 | 2023 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF MAUI INC | WAILUKU, HI | $45,000 | 2023 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF MAUI INC | WAILUKU, HI | $45,000 | 2023 | CHARITABLE GRANT TO FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF MAUI, INC. PERSONS IN NEED - CHILD |
| KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES | HONOLULU, HI | $40,000 | 2023 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII | HONOLULU, HI | $33,000 | 2023 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII | HONOLULU, HI | $33,000 | 2023 | CHARITABLE GRANT TO CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII PIN FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS |
| HOOLA NA PUA | HONOLULU, HI | $30,000 | 2023 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
| SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER | HONOLULU, HI | $30,000 | 2023 | CHARITABLE GRANT TO SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER UNSOLICITED: BEACON OF HOPE TRAFFICKING VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM |
| HOOLA NA PUA | HONOLULU, HI | $30,000 | 2023 | CHARITABLE GRANT TO HOOLA NA PUA UNSOLICITED PROGRAM GRANT |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | HONOLULU, HI | $27,500 | 2023 | CHARITABLE GRANT TO THE SALVATION ARMY - HAWAIIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDS DIVISION PIN FOR ADULTS - SUPPORTING KUPUNA THROUGH COVID-19 |
| ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF HAWAII | HONOLULU, HI | $25,000 | 2023 | CHARITABLE GRANT TO ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF HAWAII PIN FOR ADULTS |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF WEST HAWAII INC | KAILUAKONA, HI | $25,000 | 2023 | CHARITABLE GRANT TO FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF WEST HAWAII, INC. PIN FOR CHILDREN - ENHANCEMENTS AND BASIC NEEDS 2020-2021. |
| ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF HAWAII | HONOLULU, HI | $25,000 | 2023 | CHARITABLE GRANT |
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF EAST HAWAII
$50,000CHARITABLE GRANT
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF MAUI INC
$50,000CHARITABLE GRANT
CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII
$45,000CHARITABLE GRANT
CHARITABLE GRANT
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF WEST HAWAII INC
$25,000CHARITABLE GRANT
THE SALVATION ARMY
$20,000CHARITABLE GRANT
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF EAST HAWAII
$55,000CHARITABLE GRANT
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF MAUI INC
$55,000CHARITABLE GRANT
CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII
$40,000CHARITABLE GRANT
HOOLA NA PUA
$35,000CHARITABLE GRANT
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF WEST HAWAII INC
$20,000CHARITABLE GRANT
FRIEND OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF OAHU
$20,000CHARITABLE GRANT
THE SALVATION ARMY
$20,000CHARITABLE GRANT
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF MAUI INC
$50,000CHARITABLE GRANT
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF EAST HAWAII
$50,000CHARITABLE GRANT
CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII
$40,000CHARITABLE GRANT
FRIEND OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF OAHU
$20,000CHARITABLE GRANT
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF WEST HAWAII INC
$20,000CHARITABLE GRANT
THE SALVATION ARMY
$20,000CHARITABLE GRANT
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF EAST HAWAII
$50,000CHARITABLE GRANT
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF EAST HAWAII
$50,000CHARITABLE GRANT TO FRIEND OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF EAST HAWAII PIN FOR CHILDREN - SPECIAL NEEDS & ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM (CHILDREN)
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF MAUI INC
$45,000CHARITABLE GRANT
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF MAUI INC
$45,000CHARITABLE GRANT TO FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF MAUI, INC. PERSONS IN NEED - CHILD
CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII
$33,000CHARITABLE GRANT
CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII
$33,000CHARITABLE GRANT TO CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII PIN FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS
CHARITABLE GRANT TO SUSANNAH WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER UNSOLICITED: BEACON OF HOPE TRAFFICKING VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
THE SALVATION ARMY
$27,500CHARITABLE GRANT TO THE SALVATION ARMY - HAWAIIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDS DIVISION PIN FOR ADULTS - SUPPORTING KUPUNA THROUGH COVID-19
CHARITABLE GRANT TO ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF HAWAII PIN FOR ADULTS
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF WEST HAWAII INC
$25,000CHARITABLE GRANT TO FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF WEST HAWAII, INC. PIN FOR CHILDREN - ENHANCEMENTS AND BASIC NEEDS 2020-2021.