· Private foundation
Henry & Colene Wong Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of HENRY & COLENE WONG FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $306k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HELPING HANDS HAWAII | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| PALAMA SETTLEMENT | $40,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII | $40,000 |
| HAWAII FOODBANK | $35,000 |
| LANAKILA MEALS ON WHEEL | $30,000 |
| LAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND | $25,000 |
| THE MARY JANE PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| AIO FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| HO'OLA NA PUA | $10,000 |
| FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER | $10,000 |
| HAWAII LITERACY | $7,000 |
| READ TO ME INTERNATIONAL | $7,000 |
| HAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
| AIO FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $320k) 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 +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- PSPALAMA SETTLEMENT5× · 2020–2024 · $190k · revenue +28%
- HFHAWAII FOODBANK INC5× · 2020–2024 · $165k · revenue +28%
- LCLAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND5× · 2020–2024 · $105k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- AFAIO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
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.
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…
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
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.
Hawaii island community development corporation was established on july 7, 1986, to provide families with low and moderate income with adequate housing and to acquire, construct and provide housing related activities.
To rescue quality food to nourish and strengthen our community.
Poi: providing opportunities and inspiration to enable low-income individuals or families to achieve self-reliance. hcap's mission is very deeply rooted in its responsiveness to the community and its needs. it is hcap's belief and…
To empower hawaiis farming community to enhance food production and distribution through education, collaboration and advocacy.
To preserve the immediate and long-term health and wellbeing of lahaina's diverse communities and precious natural resources.
Native hawaiian philanthropy is an organization dedicated to improving the socio-economic conditions of native hawaiians.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hands Hawaii and the most unlike its peers is Read to Me International Foundation. 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 18 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 HELPING HANDS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds PALAMA SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds LAWAKUA CHARITABLE FUND ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HO'OLA NA PUA ↗
- Who funds DYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds HAWAII LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds READ TO ME INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AIO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus ↗
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 · Aloha United Way Inc · Tradewind Group Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · The Clarence Tc Ching Foundation · Kosasa Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · The Gift Foundation of Hawaii · Cooke Foundation Limited · Atherton Family Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg 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 Henry & Colene 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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