· Private foundation
Hung Wo and Elizabeth Lau Ching Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k37 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UH FOUNDATION | $52,500 |
| IOLANI SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| PUNAHOU SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| MARYKNOLL SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| MCKINLEY HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| YWCA OF OAHU | $3,500 |
| INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES | $3,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $3,500 |
| REHAB FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART | $3,500 |
| YMCA OF HONOLULU | $3,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII | $3,500 |
| HAWAII FOODBANK | $3,500 |
| COMMUNITY CHURCH OF HONOLULU | $3,500 |
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, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +28% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
- PSPUNAHOU SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $375k · revenue +40%
- 'S'IOLANI SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $375k · revenue +46%
- POPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- CWCALIFORNIA WESTERN SCHOOL OF LAWone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -8%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
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…
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…
Hawaii medical association is dedicated to serving physicians, their patients and community through representation, advocacy, and public service. core activities: advocacy, education
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…
To provide exceptional learning opportunities in a diverse community honoring the traditions of hawaii. see schedule o.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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…
Served hsta members as their exclusive collective bargaining agent,administered members' contract negotiations with the state of hawaiiconcerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, fringe benefits, hoursand other employment conditions.
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…
See schedule ophrei conducts health research and education that improves the health and well-being of veterans and all people in hawaii, central california, the pacific region, and throughout the u.s. driven by the values of excellence and…
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…
The mission of straub foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Hawaii Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 77 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 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. 28 of the 107 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 PUNAHOU SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds 'IOLANI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation ↗
- Who funds HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF OAHU ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PALOLO CHINESE HOME ↗
- Who funds PALAMA SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA WESTERN SCHOOL OF LAW ↗
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: Tradewind Group Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Aloha United Way Inc · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Castiglione A Casauria Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Hemic Foundation · Locations Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · Chung Kun Ai 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 organization Hung Wo and Elizabeth Lau Ching 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.
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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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