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Chan 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $174k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAKAI FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE NEW SCHOOLPARSONS | $43,000 |
| APEX FOR YOUTH | $40,000 |
| HOFFMAN INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HAWAII CHARITIES | $21,175 |
| ART PRODUCTION FUND | $15,000 |
| HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| GROW SOME GOOD | $10,000 |
| GIFT FOUNDATION OF HAWAII | $5,146 |
| PACIFIC CANCER FOUNDATION | $3,300 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
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 US giving — 71% of grant dollars ($1.1M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 29% that went abroad ($455k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 29% of all-years giving ($455k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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
- AFAPEX FOR YOUTH INC2× · 2023–2024 · $105k · revenue +5%
- TNThe New School2× · 2019–2020 · $77k · revenue +12%
- HIHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +188%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $76k
- FOFRIENDS OF BC CANCER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $58k
- VCVANCOUVER CHINATOWN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $45k
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.
The mission of kuakini foundation is to improve the health status of the community by: providing comprehensive health care services and programs at reasonable cost; continuously improving the quality of health care services and programs;…
To preserve the immediate and long-term health and wellbeing of lahaina's diverse communities and precious natural resources.
To rescue quality food to nourish and strengthen our community.
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
Hawai`i people`s fund supports, funds, and amplifies the work of hawai`i- based grassroots organizations challenging systems of oppression.
The kuki'o ho'omana fund seeks to uplift and enrich our hawai'i island community through intentional investments in curated local organizations focusing on youth empowerment, affordable housing, environmental preservation, cultural…
To promote agriculture and farming, and to enhance environmental stewardship in the state of hawaii, through agriculture research, education, training, management and public outreach.
To empower hawaiis farming community to enhance food production and distribution through education, collaboration and advocacy.
The mission of the corporation shall be to work with partners to protect and restore native ecosystems and watersheds, to improve the quality and quantity of freshwater resources to perpetuate hawaiian cultural resources and practices, to…
Feed hawaii's mission is to support a sustainable regional food system by providing essential services and resources for local food producers and increasing community access to fresh healthy food.
The mission of hawai'i public radio is to serve the people of hawai'i by informing with essential news, inspiring through the power of music and the arts, and connecting through conversations and convenings.
The principal purpose of Grow Good Hawaii is to promote urban agro-ecology, specifically, the production of food (fruits, vegetables, etc.} locally, as well as the creation of urban biodiversity islands (gardens).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maui United Way and the most unlike its peers is Chapel & York Us Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 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. 30 of the 66 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 APEX FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds MAKAI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ART PRODUCTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HAWAII CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds HUI NO KE OLA PONO INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY REACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAUI UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GROW SOME GOOD ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Chan 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.
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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