How much does Edwin S N Wong Foundation give?

Edwin S N Wong Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $10,517 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Edwin S N Wong Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (81%), Human Services (5%), International (3%).

Who are Edwin S N Wong Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Hawaii Foundation ($1.4M), Hawaii Foodbank Inc ($37k), Lokahi Foundation ($35k).

Does Edwin S N Wong Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Edwin S N Wong Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Edwin S N Wong Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation, Tradewind Group Foundation, Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn.

Where is Edwin S N Wong Foundation based?

Edwin S N Wong Foundation is based in HI.

Edwin S N Wong Foundation

Edwin S N Wong Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Edwin S N Wong Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$11k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$11k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.4MHuman Services$85kInternational$59kPhilanthropy$51kFood & Nutrition$37kHealth$29kRecreation & Sports$26kArts & Culture$18kOther$0

02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,517

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
HAWAII FOOD BANK	$10,517

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.7M · 19 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +98% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.7M

$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+98%

+10%

Still filing today

26%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitOther

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

UO
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
6× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +164%
HF
HAWAII FOODBANK INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +100%
MC
Mercy Corps
4× · 2021–2024 · $18k · revenue +5%

Funded once

TR
THE RAINBOW FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $10k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2021 · $5k
CA
CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICEgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +31%

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.

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

Hawaii Public Radio

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.

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Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

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

Human Services

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

Kuakini Foundation

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;…

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Healthcare Association of Hawaii

The mission of the healthcare association of hawaii is to be hawaii's most effective advocate for the comprehensive and financially strong healthcare system that successfully responds to the diverse and changing needs of all we serve.

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Kapi'olani Health Foundation

The mission of kapi'olani health foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.

Health

Pacific Health Research & Education Institute

See schedule ophrei conducts health research and education that improves the health and well-being of veterans and all people in hawaii, central california, the pacific region, and throughout the u.s. driven by the values of excellence and…

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Waikiki Health

To provide high quality medical and social services that are affordable and accessible for everyone regardless of ability to pay.

Health

Hale Makua Health Services

The mission of hale makua health is to improve the well-being of those in our care through compassionate personalized health services in our home and yours.

Health

Hawaii Health Information Exchange

Hawai'i health information exchange is the state's designated entity for health data exchange. we provide the technology, technical expertise, and governance that enables health care providers and stakeholders to share and access complete…

Public Benefit

Hospice Hawaii Inc

To promote the quality of life for persons facing life-limiting illnesses and for their families.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Team Blueline Inc. 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

16 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. 16 of the 39 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/16

Grantees still filing

10/16

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$1,408,012Other$242,469Food & Nutrition$36,517International$26,500Philanthropy$16,000Arts & Culture$1,000Human Services$1,000

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

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.

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.

First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable FoundationHI15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Kosasa Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Atherton Family Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Edwin S N Wong Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edwin S N Wong Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home