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Chung Kun Ai Foundation at a glance

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Chung Kun Ai Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$131k
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$290kEducation$116kHuman Services$107kReligion$94kArts & Culture$71kYouth Development$62kAnimals$55kFood & Nutrition$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k46 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STRAUB FOUNDATION$30,000
HAWAII FOODBANK$20,000
YMCA ANNUAL SUPPORT CAMPAIGN$18,000
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY$4,000
PACIFIC UNIVERSITY$4,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$4,000
INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES$2,500
KUAKINI FOUNDATION$2,500
PBS HAWAII$2,500
MAKIKI CHRISTIAN CHURCH$2,500
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY-HOPE LODGE$2,500
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER$2,000
WAIKIKI HEALTH CENTER$2,000
PUNAHOU SCHOOL$1,500
REHAB FOUNDATION$1,500
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%HALE KIPA: $1k → 9%HALE KIPA: $1k → 9%HALE KIPA: $1k → 9%HALE KIPA: $1k → 9%HALE KIPA: $1k → 9%HALE KIPA: $1k → 9%FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER (THE PANTRY): $1k → 9%AFTER SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $500 → 9%AFTER SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $500 → 9%AFTER SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $500 → 9%AFTER SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $500 → 9%AFTER SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $500 → 9%AFTER SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $500 → 9%MOILIILI COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 9%MOILIILI COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 9%MOILIILI COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 9%MOILIILI COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 9%MOILIILI COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 9%MOILIILI COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 9%YWCA OF OAHU: $1k → 9%NAVIAN HAWAII: $500 → 9%NAVIAN HAWAII: $500 → 9%HOSPICE HAWAII: $500 → 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$827k · 66 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -17% for those funded once.

66 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
8

Total granted

$827k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
-17%

Still filing today

61%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalReligionOther
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

  • SF
    Straub Foundation
    8× · 2017–2025 · $158k · revenue +202%
  • HF
    HAWAII FOODBANK INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +100%
  • IT
    IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • DH
    DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -17%
  • KC
    KAWAIAHAO CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • TQ
    THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +65%
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
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
2
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
3
Kaua'i Medical Clinic

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…

Health
4
Hawaii Education Institute
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5
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
6
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

—
7
Hui Pohala

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…

Health
8
Pali Momi Foundation

The mission of pali momi foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.

Health
9
Waianae Distr Comprehensive Health &

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…

Health
10
Hawaii Maritime Center
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11
Hawaii Association of Independent Schools

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…

Education
12
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

To improve the health and well-being of our community.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Hawaii Inc; 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

50 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. 50 of the 78 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/50
Grantees still filing
36/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YMCA OF HONOLULU (OAHU): $83,250 · OtherYMCA OF HONOLULU (OAHU)YMCA ANNUAL SUPPORT CAMPAIGN: $43,000 · OtherYMCA ANNUAL SUPPORT CAMPAIGNGIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF HAWAII: $26,500 · OtherGIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF HAWAIIDIAMOND HEAD THEATER: $20,000 · OtherDIAMOND HEAD THEATRE: $20,000 · OtherOREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $16,000 · Other+43 more: $231,000 · Other+43 moreStraub Foundation: $158,000 · HealthStraub FoundationAmerican Heart Association Inc: $19,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncWAIKIKI HEALTH: $16,000 · HealthWAIKIKI HEALTHWAIMANALO HEALTH CENTER: $12,500 · HealthNATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF HAWAII INC: $12,500 · HealthRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation: $10,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $10,000 · Health+4 more: $11,750 · HealthPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $16,500 · Education'IOLANI SCHOOL: $11,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $8,000 · EducationCHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU: $8,000 · EducationHAWAII EDUCATION OF THE ARTS INC: $5,000 · EducationASSETS SCHOOL: $4,000 · EducationVanderbilt University: $4,000 · EducationPACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · EducationHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $55,000 · AnimalsCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $7,000 · Human ServicesHALE KIPA INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $4,000 · Human ServicesMOILIILI COMMUNITY CENTER: $4,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE HAWAII INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OAHU: $1,000 · Human ServicesFEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER: $1,000 · Human ServicesHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $24,000 · Food & NutritionIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $20,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$439,750Health$249,750Education$61,000Animals$55,000Human Services$24,500Food & Nutrition$24,000Housing & Shelter$20,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetStraub Foundation: $158,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $55,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $24,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $20,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDIAMOND HEAD THEATRE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $19,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $16,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWAIKIKI HEALTH: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWAIMANALO HEALTH CENTER: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF HAWAII INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE: $12,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budget'IOLANI SCHOOL: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $10,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation: $10,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $10,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKUAKINI FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetLE JARDIN ACADEMY INC: $9,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildrens Discovery Center: $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA -- ALOHA COUNCIL: $8,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetHANAHAUOLI SCHOOL: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF HAWAII INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHALE KIPA INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII EDUCATION OF THE ARTS INC: $5,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetALOHA MEDICAL MISSION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD BANK OF HAWAII: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS HAWAII: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMOILIILI COMMUNITY CENTER: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetASSETS SCHOOL: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAIIAN ISLANDS MINISTRIES INC: $4,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetKALIHI-PALAMA HEALTH CENTER (HALE HO'OLA HOU): $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKapi'olani Health Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS HAWAII INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRANK DELIMA'S STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC: $2,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetHOSPICE HAWAII INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OAHU: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $1,000 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.

  • 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 WAIMANALO HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF HAWAII INC ↗
  • Who funds MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds 'IOLANI SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds KUAKINI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LE JARDIN ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Childrens Discovery Center ↗
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA -- ALOHA COUNCIL ↗
  • 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 JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF HAWAII INC ↗
  • Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HALE KIPA INC ↗

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.

J Watumull FundAloha United Way IncFirst Insurance Compa…Tradewind Group Found…Bank of Hawaii Charit…Atherton Family Found…McInerny Foundation--First Hawaiian Bank F…The Queen's Medical C…Central Pacific Bank …The Harry and Jeanett…The Clarence Tc Ching…
J Watumull FundHI67.6× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Chung Kun Ai Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chung Kun Ai 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%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Pacific University: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Chung Kun Ai Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Chung Kun Ai Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 78 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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