· Private foundation
Chung Kun Ai Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k46 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STRAUB FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| HAWAII FOODBANK | $20,000 |
| YMCA ANNUAL SUPPORT CAMPAIGN | $18,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| PACIFIC UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES | $2,500 |
| PBS HAWAII | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY-HOPE LODGE | $2,500 |
| KUAKINI FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| MAKIKI CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $2,500 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER | $2,000 |
| WAIKIKI HEALTH CENTER | $2,000 |
| PUNAHOU SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| LE JARDIN ACADEMY | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- SFStraub Foundation8× · 2017–2025 · $158k · revenue +202%
- HFHAWAII FOODBANK INC5× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +100%
- ITIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- DHDIAMOND HEAD THEATREone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -17%
- TQTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +65%
- KCKAWAIAHAO CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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…
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…
Hawaii medical association is dedicated to serving physicians, their patients and community through representation, advocacy, and public service. core activities: advocacy, education
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…
The mission of pali momi foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.
The waianae coast comprehensive health center ("the health center") is a healing center that provides accessible and affordable medical and traditional healing services with aloha. the health center is a learning center that offers health…
The hawai'i association of independent schools (hais) advocates on behalf of independent education in hawaii, provides services that strengthen individual schools and engages them to achieve educational quality and excellence for all…
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Hawaii Inc 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.
Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 79 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 Straub Foundation ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PUNAHOU SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WAIKIKI HEALTH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds WAIMANALO HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds 'IOLANI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation ↗
- Who funds KUAKINI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LE JARDIN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA -- ALOHA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Childrens Discovery Center ↗
- Who funds HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds HALE KIPA INC ↗
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: J Watumull Fund · Aloha United Way Inc · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Atherton Family Foundation · McInerny Foundation-- · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · The Queen's Medical Center · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Clarence Tc Ching 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 Chung Kun Ai 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.
- Pacific University — 2% 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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