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· Private foundation
HARRY CHOW AND NEE CHANG CHOCK WONG
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$660k
Granted FY2024
17
Grants
1
Communities
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
0183% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Health$1.9MFood & Nutrition$523kEducation$100kHuman Services$45kAnimals$20kEnvironment$3kOther$537k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
infectious diseasetechnology
2021
church
2022
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2023
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 17 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $350k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
- KAPIOLANI HEALTH FOUNDATION$250,000
- STRAUB FOUNDATION$100,000
- KAPIOLANI HEALTH FOUNDATION$100,000
- STRAUB FOUNDATION$50,000
- KAPIOLANI HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
- HAWAII FOODBANK$50,000
- HAWAII FOODBANK$10,000
- ST ANTHONY SCHOOL$5,000
- PALI MOMI FOUNDATION$5,000
- PALOLO CHINESE HOME$5,000
- HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS$5,000
- WILCOX HEALTH FOUNDATION$5,000
- LANAKILA MEALS ON WHEELS$5,000
- KAPIOLANI HEALTH FOUNDATION$5,000
- ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM$5,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.9M · 17 repeat orgs$317k to everyone else
17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
17
20
Total granted
$2.9M
$317k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+45%
+51%
Still filing today
53%
15%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 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
HealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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
- QMQUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER4× · 2020–2023 · $765k · revenue +31%
- KHKAPIOLANI HEALTH FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $678k · revenue +45%
- HFHAWAII FOODBANK5× · 2020–2024 · $495k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- KMKAPIOLANI MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2020 · $100k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +83%
- HBHAWAII BALLET THEATREone grant, 2020 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Kuakini Medical Center
The mission of kuakini medical center 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…
Health
2
Hawaii Pacific University
Hpu is an international learning community set in the rich cultural context of hawaii. our innovative programs prepare our graduates as active members of a global society.
Education
3
Hawaii Public Radio
To provide non-commercial, cultural and informational programming to the state of hawaii, the nation and international community.
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4
Molokai General Hospital
To provide quality healthcare services to the island of molokai.
Health
5
Hui Hoolana
Create a self-sustaining facility that supports educational programs and native hawaiian reforestation projects.
Arts & Culture
6
Hui Pohala
Our vision is for the people of hawaii with serious illnesses to have access to high-quality, team-based, person-centered palliative care, in the setting they prefer.
Health
7
Hawaii Maritime Center
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8
Chaminade University of Honolulu
Chaminade university offers its students an education in a collaborative learning environment that prepares them for life, work and service. guided by its catholic, marianist and liberal arts educational traditions, chaminade encourages…
Education
9
Maui Humane Society
The maui humane society is organized for the prevention of cruel and/or inhumane treatment of animals. they also provide shelter for old, homeless, abandoned, sick, or injured animals, as well as encourage, promote, and provide education…
Animals
10
Kaua'i Medical Clinic
Kaua'i medical clinic, an affliate of hawai'i pacific health, is a multi-specialty provider group that serves hawai'i pacific health through academics, research and clinical care, in partnership with kapi'olani medical center for women and…
Health
11
Honolulu Marathon Association
Plan, implement and conduct the annual honolulu marathon and its related races to promote amateur sports competition.
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12
Na Pualei O Likolehua
To preserve and perpetuate hula as a living art and dance form.
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kapi'olani Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Queen's Medical Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Health$1,942,500Other$537,000Food & Nutrition$523,000Education$100,000Human Services$45,000Animals$20,000Environment$3,000
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 QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds KAPIOLANI HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds STRAUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PALOLO CHINESE HOME ↗
- Who funds PALI MOMI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds KUAKINI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILCOX HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds QUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSP ↗
- Who funds HUI MAHIAI AINA ↗
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.
J Watumull FundHI20.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: J Watumull Fund · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Aloha United Way Inc · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · Ac Kobayashi Family Foundation · First Insurance Company · McInerny Foundation-- · The James and Juanita Wo Foundation · Ben & Miriam Lau Foundation · Castiglione A Casauria Foundation · Locations 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 organisation HARRY CHOW AND NEE CHANG CHOCK WONG 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: STRAUB FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~98 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.9× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 990109350 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on STRAUB FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 98 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Harry Chow and Nee Chang Chock Wong?
Find your warmest path to Harry Chow and Nee Chang Chock Wong through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines