· Private foundation
Allen L & Nobuko Zecha Foundation
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k15 grants · $15k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART | $1,000 |
| HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $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 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- HPHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY2× · 2019–2020 · $440k · revenue +56%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $7k · revenue +56%
- SFStraub Foundation2× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +202%
Funded once
- C(CPASF (CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ACTION)one grant, 2017 · $3k
- ECEAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +111%
- PFPACIFIC FORUM LEGACY SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $500
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To develop educated, well-rounded individuals who are well prepared for college.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Hawaii medical association is dedicated to serving physicians, their patients and community through representation, advocacy, and public service. core activities: advocacy, education
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.
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…
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…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Pacific University and 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.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Straub Foundation ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds KUAKINI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds HAWAII OPERA THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE CROWN PRINCE AKIHITO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BISHOP MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds LYCOMING COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Pacific & Asian Affairs Council ↗
- Who funds UPPER IOWA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HAWAII THEATRE CENTER ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Allen L & Nobuko Zecha Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.