· Private foundation
Harry Chow and Nee Chang Chock 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KAPIOLANI HEALTH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| STRAUB FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| QUEENS MEDICAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| STRAUB FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| KAPIOLANI HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| STRAUB FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| KAPIOLANI HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| QUEENS MEDICAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| HAWAII FOODBANK | $25,000 |
| HAWAII FOODBANK | $25,000 |
| HAWAII FOODBANK | $25,000 |
| HAWAII FOODBANK | $25,000 |
| PALI MOMI FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS | $5,000 |
| KAPIOLANI HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +46% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- KHKapi'olani Health Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +205%
- TQTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER5× · 2020–2025 · $865k · revenue +46%
- HFHAWAII FOODBANK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $675k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- KMKAPIOLANI MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2020 · $100k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +64%
- 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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
To provide quality, integrated health and social services to our community and all others in need of health care.
To support, promote and maintain the subsidiary and affiliate corporations of the queen's health systems and to promote, supervise, and otherwise contribute to healthcare related activities.
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…
Hawaii medical association is dedicated to serving physicians, their patients and community through representation, advocacy, and public service. core activities: advocacy, education
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.
To improve access to healthcare, hygiene care, social services, and to provide transitional and permanent housing to hawaii's homeless and underserved populations. provide walk-in medical clinic services in honolulu regardless of an…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kapi'olani Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Community People Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 37 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 Kapi'olani Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- 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 INC ↗
- Who funds KUAKINI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wilcox Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds QUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds KUALOA-HEEIA ECUMENICAL YOUTH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PEOPLE MINISTRIES ↗
- 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.
Open a dossier: J Watumull Fund · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · Ac Kobayashi Family Foundation · Chung Kun Ai Foundation · The Clarence Tc Ching Foundation · McInerny Foundation-- · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Hawaii Foodbank Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc
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 Harry Chow and Nee Chang Chock Wong 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.
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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