· Private foundation
Carolyn K N Wong and Bob y K Wong Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
98% of Carolyn K N Wong and Bob y K Wong Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Hawaii Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $211k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $210,634 |
| HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $6,274 |
| INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $4,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
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.
The mission of the organization is to strengthen youth and families through high quality prevention, support, and transition services.
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…
Hale kipa provides opportunities and environments that strengthen and encourage youth, their families and communities to actualize their potential and social responsibility.
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
Direct services and advocacy for persons with developmental and intellectual disabilities.
Kaua'i medical clinic, an affliate of hawai'i pacific health, is a multi-specialty clinic dedicated to providing world-class care for adults and children across hawai'i and the pacific region in partnership with kapi'olani medical center…
The arc in hawaii provides services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, id and dd, on oahu. together with its national and neighbor island arc affiliates, the arc in hawaii promotes and protects the rights of…
To empower people to live with passion and purpose in service of a better world through placebased, culturallygrounded workshops, programs, and professional development.
Palliative care is a win-win-win-win. expanding access to palliative care benefits all parts of the healthcare system. people living with serious illness are better able to manage physical and emotional symptoms and have peace of mind that…
Our mission is to make a difference in the lives of apia scholars by providing them with resources that increase their access to higher education which serves as the foundation for their future success and contributions to a more vibrant…
Our mission, vision and approach to homelessness are rooted in core hawaiian values that guide our outcomes and overall impact.
Hihr's mission is to provide housing services with evidence-based and low-barrier service models, as well as coordinated data entry system (ces) utilizing (vi-spdat) and the housing first model approached. hihr programs helps focus…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Henry Street Settlement and the most unlike its peers is Project Hawaii Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 12 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EFFECTIVE PLANNING & INNOVATIVE COMMUNICATION INC ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
- Who funds HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY ASIAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Carolyn K N Wong and Bob y K Wong 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.
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