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Allen L & Nobuko Zecha Foundation

$155k
Granted FY2020
16
Grants FY2020
14
Organizations funded FY2020
21%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$140,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 14
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
7

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 21% of the organizations Allen L & Nobuko Zecha Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20
EducationArts & CultureInternationalHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202014$152k21%
FY20192$302k50%
FY201811$14k64%
FY20179$18kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Education$464kArts & Culture$16kHealth$12kInternational$1kHuman Services$100

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hawaii Pacific University$440,00020%
University of Hawaii Foundation$6,99920%
Straub Foundation$6,40020%
Honolulu Museum of Art$6,14030%
Kuakini Foundation$5,00030%
Dickinson College$4,50020%
Hawaii Opera Theatre$3,20020%
The Crown Prince Akihito Scholarship Foundation$3,00021%
Bishop Museum$2,25030%
Hawaii Symphony Orchestra$1,50020%
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All grantees of Allen L & Nobuko Zecha Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hawaii Pacific University$440,00020%
University of Hawaii Foundation$6,99920%
Straub Foundation$6,40020%
Honolulu Museum of Art$6,14030%
Kuakini Foundation$5,00030%
Dickinson College$4,50020%
Hawaii Opera Theatre$3,20020%
The Crown Prince Akihito Scholarship Foundation$3,00021%
Bishop Museum$2,25030%
Hawaii Symphony Orchestra$1,50020%
Lycoming College$1,00020%
Pacific & Asian Affairs Council$70520%
East-West Center Foundation$50010%
Upper Iowa University$50010%
American Heart Association Inc$50010%
Hawaii Theatre Center$20010%
American Diabetes Association$20020%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($4k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Allen L & Nobuko Zecha Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHawaii Pacific University: $440,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Hawaii Foundation: $6,999 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStraub Foundation: $6,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHonolulu Museum of Art: $6,140 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKuakini Foundation: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDickinson College: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHawaii Opera Theatre: $3,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Crown Prince Akihito Scholarship Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBishop Museum: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHawaii Symphony Orchestra: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLycoming College: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPacific & Asian Affairs Council: $705 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEast-West Center Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUpper Iowa University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHawaii Theatre Center: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Atherton Family Found…McInerny Foundation--Kosasa FoundationJ Watumull FundAloha United Way IncCastiglione A Casauri…The Kenneth and Diane…The Strong FoundationFirst Hawaiian Bank F…First Insurance Compa…Tradewind Group Found…The Dods Foundation
Atherton Family FoundationHI19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atherton Family Foundation · McInerny Foundation-- · Kosasa Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Aloha United Way Inc · Castiglione A Casauria Foundation · The Kenneth and Diane Matsuura Foundation · The Strong Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · The Dods Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Allen L & Nobuko Zecha Foundation

How much does Allen L & Nobuko Zecha Foundation give?
Allen L & Nobuko Zecha Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $155,205 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Allen L & Nobuko Zecha Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Education (94%), Arts & Culture (3%), Health (2%).
Who are Allen L & Nobuko Zecha Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Hawaii Pacific University ($440k), University of Hawaii Foundation ($7k), Straub Foundation ($6k).
Does Allen L & Nobuko Zecha Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Allen L & Nobuko Zecha Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Atherton Family Foundation, McInerny Foundation--, Kosasa Foundation.
Where is Allen L & Nobuko Zecha Foundation based?
Allen L & Nobuko Zecha Foundation is based in HI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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