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Ernest H Hui Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Ernest H Hui Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$268kPhilanthropy$74kEnvironment$26kArts & Culture$26kHuman Services$20kInternational$18kHealth$17kCivil Rights$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS INC$10,000
FOUNDATION OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF HONOLULU$9,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$4,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$4,000
PBS HAWAII$3,000
CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE$2,500
ALOHA UNITED WAY$2,000
PUNAHOU SCHOOL$2,000
SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP - AFGHANISTAN$2,000
LE JARDIN ACADEMY$2,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$2,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$1,000
WINNERS' CAMP FOUNDATION$1,000
HAWAII FOODBANK$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS INC: $10k → 14%SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS INC: $2k → 14%LANAKILA PACIFIC FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%KO OLINA CHARITIES: $1k → 9%KO OLINA CHARITIES: $1k → 9%KO OLINA CHARITIES: $1k → 9%KO OLINA CHARITIES: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
MO
VA
NC
DC
HI
OK
AL
GA
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$446k · 36 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
22

Total granted

$446k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+16%

Still filing today

75%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
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 · $175k · revenue +164%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +76%
  • PS
    PUNAHOU SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • MY
    MARSHALL & YUKO HUNG FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • PV
    POLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +175%
  • OA
    OHANA ARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +66%
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
The People's Fund

Hawai`i people`s fund supports, funds, and amplifies the work of hawai`i- based grassroots organizations challenging systems of oppression.

Human Services
2
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
3
Mohala Pua School Dba Honolulu Waldorf School

See schedule o.at honolulu waldorf school, we educate each child to find meaning, passion, and purpose in life and to contribute to the creation of a better world for all. through a curriculum based on the developmental stages of the human…

Education
4
Kapi'olani Health Foundation

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

Health
5
Kukio Hoomana Fund

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…

Philanthropy
6
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
7
Hawaii Pacific University

Hawaii pacific university is an international learning community set in the rich cultural context of hawaii. students from around the world join us for an american education built on a liberal arts foundation. our innovative undergraduate…

Education
8
Kanu O Ka Aina Learning Ohana

Serving and perpetuating sustainable hawaiian communities through education with aloha.

Arts & Culture
9
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
10
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

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

Human Services
11
Uhiwai O Haleakala

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…

Environment
12
Pali Momi Foundation

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

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Hawaii; the most unlike its peers is Marshall & Yuko Hung Foundation. 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

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 62 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
31/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $174,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATIONWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $66,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $18,000 · EducationPUNAHOU SCHOOL+4 more: $5,003 · EducationFOUNDATION OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF HONOLULU: $51,000 · OtherFOUNDATION OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF …THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $19,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $8,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF …HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $8,100 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $6,000 · OtherHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $8,900 · OtherHAWAII FOODBANK INC+34 more: $47,815 · Other+34 moreALOHA UNITED WAY INC: $12,318 · PhilanthropyMARSHALL & YUKO HUNG FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,800 · Philanthropy+1 more: $700 · PhilanthropyHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII: $10,250 · Arts & CulturePOLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureOHANA ARTS: $3,000 · Arts & CultureBAHT WOR CHARITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Arts & CultureMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $17,000 · InternationalSpecial Service for Groups Inc: $12,000 · Human ServicesKO OLINA CHARITIES: $4,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $500 · Civil Rights
Education$263,503Other$149,315Philanthropy$24,818Arts & Culture$20,250International$17,000Human Services$16,500Civil Rights$9,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $174,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $66,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF HONOLULU: $51,000 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $19,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $17,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetALOHA UNITED WAY INC: $12,318 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Service for Groups Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII: $10,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $8,900 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $6,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPOLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKO OLINA CHARITIES: $4,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetSCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP-AFGHANISTAN INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAPAHANA KUAOLA: $3,800 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTAX FOUNDATION OF HAWAII: $3,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetOHANA ARTS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRotary District 5000 Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLE JARDIN ACADEMY INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABILITAT INC: $2,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBAHT WOR CHARITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC: $1,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $1,003 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNICEF USA Impact Fund for Children Inc: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLANAKILA PACIFIC FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII HEALTH & HARM REDUCTION CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKUAKINI FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFrancis W Parker School: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII: $495 over 1y, 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 UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF HONOLULU ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds PUNAHOU SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds Special Service for Groups Inc ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds MARSHALL & YUKO HUNG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds POLYNESIAN VOYAGING SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds KO OLINA CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP-AFGHANISTAN INC ↗
  • Who funds PAPAHANA KUAOLA ↗
  • Who funds TAX FOUNDATION OF HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds OHANA ARTS ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Rotary District 5000 Foundation ↗
  • Who funds LE JARDIN ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds HABILITAT INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds BAHT WOR CHARITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
  • Who funds WINNER'S CAMP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII ↗

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 Compa…Central Pacific Bank …J Watumull FundAtherton Family Found…First Hawaiian Bank F…Aloha United Way IncThe Harry and Jeanett…The Cades FoundationHemic FoundationTradewind Group Found…Bank of Hawaii Charit…Joseph and Vera Zilbe…
First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable FoundationHI24.1× affinity9 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 · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Atherton Family Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Cades Foundation · Hemic Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc

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 Ernest H Hui Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ernest H Hui Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.

    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 62 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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