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Allen L & Nobuko Zecha Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Allen L & Nobuko Zecha Foundation

$155k
Granted FY2020
16
Grants FY2020
7
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2020 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k15 grants · $15k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $140k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY$140,000
STRAUB FOUNDATION$3,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$2,000
HAWAII OPERA THEATRE$2,000
DICKINSON COLLEGE$1,500
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$1,000
HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$1,000
HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART$1,000
KUAKINI FOUNDATION$1,000
BISHOP MUSEUM$750
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$500
UPPER IOWA UNIVERSITY$500
LYCOMING COLLEGE$500
PACIFIC AND ASIAN AFFAIRS COUNCIL$205
AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION$150
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 8%DICKINSON COLLEGE: $3k → 8%LYCOMING COLLEGE: $500 → 12%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $2k → 8%CPASF (CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ACTION): $3k → 10%HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $3k → 9%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $500 → 14%UPPER IOWA UNIVERSITY: $500 → 13%AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $150 → 7%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1k → 8%DICKINSON COLLEGE: $2k → 8%LYCOMING COLLEGE: $500 → 12%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $2k → 8%HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $2k → 9%AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $50 → 7%THE CROWN PRINCE AKIHITO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%THE CROWN PRINCE AKIHITO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $1k → 9%KUAKINI FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%KUAKINI FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%BISHOP MUSEUM: $1k → 9%EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%KUAKINI FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%PACIFIC & ASIAN AFFAIRS COUNCIL: $500 → 9%BISHOP MUSEUM: $750 → 9%PACIFIC AND ASIAN AFFAIRS COUNCIL: $205 → 9%BISHOP MUSEUM: $500 → 9%HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $1k → 9%HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $500 → 9%HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $300k → 9%HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $140k → 9%STRAUB FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%STRAUB FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%HAWAII OPERA THEATRE: $2k → 9%HAWAII OPERA THEATRE: $1k → 9%PACIFIC FORUM LEGACY SOCIETY: $500 → 9%HAWAII THEATRE CENTER: $200 → 9%EASTER SEALS: $100 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$481k · 13 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
4

Total granted

$481k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+362%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HP
    HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2019–2020 · $440k · revenue +56%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $7k · revenue +56%
  • SF
    Straub Foundation
    2× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +202%

Funded once

  • C(
    CPASF (CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ACTION)
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • EC
    EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +269%
  • PF
    PACIFIC FORUM LEGACY SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · $500
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
'Iolani School

To develop educated, well-rounded individuals who are well prepared for college.

Education
2
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
3
Hawaii Medical Association

Hawaii medical association is dedicated to serving physicians, their patients and community through representation, advocacy, and public service. core activities: advocacy, education

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4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
6
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…

Health
9
Hawaii International Film Festival

To foster international cultural awareness and understanding through the medium of film. to act as a creative pipeline for hawaii and the pacific, showcasing new and emerging talent from hawaii, asia, americas, europe, and the pacific…

Arts & Culture
10
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
11
Kapi'olani Medical Specialists

Kapi'olani medical specialists (dba hawai'i pacific health medical group) is a multispecialty provider group dedicated to providing world-class care for adults and children across hawai'i and the pacific region working in partnership with…

Health
12
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Pacific University; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $440,000 · EducationHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY+6 more: $20,499 · EducationHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $6,140 · Arts & CultureHAWAII OPERA THEATRE: $3,200 · Arts & CultureBISHOP MUSEUM: $2,250 · Arts & CultureHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $1,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $200 · Arts & CultureKUAKINI FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherCPASF (CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ACTION): $3,000 · OtherPacific & Asian Affairs Council: $705 · OtherPACIFIC FORUM LEGACY SOCIETY: $500 · Other+1 more: $100 · OtherStraub Foundation: $6,400 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 · Health+1 more: $200 · HealthTHE CROWN PRINCE AKIHITO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $3,000 · InternationalEAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION: $500 · International
Education$460,499Arts & Culture$13,290Other$9,305Health$7,100International$3,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $3,500 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Allen L & Nobuko Zecha Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Allen L & Nobuko Zecha Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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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