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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.

$655k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 27
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$14M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Harry Chow and Nee Chang Chock Wong Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$655k0%
FY202412$715k0%
FY202316$680k0%
FY202217$748k6%
FY202127$640k52%
FY202022$623kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$2.9MFood & Nutrition$749kEducation$270kHuman Services$59kArts & Culture$30kReligion$28kAnimals$20kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kapi'olani Health Foundation$1,025,00063%
The Queen's Medical Center$865,00050%
Hawaii Foodbank Inc$675,00061%
Straub Foundation$665,00063%
University of Hawaii Foundation$100,00010%
Palolo Chinese Home$50,00060%
Pali Momi Foundation$40,00062%
Hawaii Meals on Wheels Inc$33,00060%
Kuakini Foundation$30,00050%
Wilcox Health Foundation$30,00051%
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All grantees of Harry Chow and Nee Chang Chock Wong Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kapi'olani Health Foundation$1,025,00063%
The Queen's Medical Center$865,00050%
Hawaii Foodbank Inc$675,00061%
Straub Foundation$665,00063%
University of Hawaii Foundation$100,00010%
Palolo Chinese Home$50,00060%
Pali Momi Foundation$40,00062%
Hawaii Meals on Wheels Inc$33,00060%
Kuakini Foundation$30,00050%
Wilcox Health Foundation$30,00051%
Hawaiian Humane Society$20,00010%
Honolulu Asymca$6,0001n/a
Queen's North Hawaii Community Hospital$5,00010%
Dynamic Compassion in Action$3,0001n/a
Kualoa-Heeia Ecumenical Youth Project$3,00010%
Community People Ministries$3,00015%
St Stephens Episcopal Church$3,0001n/a
Hui Mahiai Aina$3,0001n/a

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($502k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harry Chow and Nee Chang Chock Wong Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKapi'olani Health Foundation: $1,025,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetThe Queen's Medical Center: $865,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHawaii Foodbank Inc: $675,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetStraub Foundation: $665,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetUniversity of Hawaii Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPalolo Chinese Home: $50,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPali Momi Foundation: $40,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetHawaii Meals on Wheels Inc: $33,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetKuakini Foundation: $30,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWilcox Health Foundation: $30,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHawaiian Humane Society: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetQueen's North Hawaii Community Hospital: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKualoa-Heeia Ecumenical Youth Project: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity People Ministries: $3,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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 FundHI22× affinity8 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 · 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

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.

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About Harry Chow and Nee Chang Chock Wong Foundation

How much does Harry Chow and Nee Chang Chock Wong Foundation give?
Harry Chow and Nee Chang Chock Wong Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $655,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Harry Chow and Nee Chang Chock Wong Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (71%), Food & Nutrition (18%), Education (7%).
Who are Harry Chow and Nee Chang Chock Wong Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Kapi'olani Health Foundation ($1.0M), The Queen's Medical Center ($865k), Hawaii Foodbank Inc ($675k).
Does Harry Chow and Nee Chang Chock Wong Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Harry Chow and Nee Chang Chock 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 Harry Chow and Nee Chang Chock Wong Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include J Watumull Fund, Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn, First Hawaiian Bank Foundation.
Where is Harry Chow and Nee Chang Chock Wong Foundation based?
Harry Chow and Nee Chang Chock Wong Foundation is based in HI.

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 37 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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