Hawaii · Private foundation
Hung Wo and Elizabeth Lau Ching Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $254k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $52,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 47
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Hung Wo and Elizabeth Lau Ching Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 41 | $251k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $266k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $223k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $258k | 34% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $283k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $290k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| 'Iolani School | $375,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Punahou School | $375,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Maryknoll Schools | $110,000 | 6 | n/a |
| University of Hawaii Foundation | $52,500 | 1 | 0% |
| President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Helping Hands Hawaii | $21,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Young Women's Christian Association of Oahu | $21,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Honolulu | $21,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Honolulu Museum of Art | $21,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hawaii Foodbank Inc | $21,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 78 recipients with no EIN on record ($270k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hung Wo and Elizabeth Lau Ching Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
Compare Hung Wo and Elizabeth Lau Ching Foundation with peer funders
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About Hung Wo and Elizabeth Lau Ching Foundation
- How much does Hung Wo and Elizabeth Lau Ching Foundation give?
- Hung Wo and Elizabeth Lau Ching Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $253,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 47 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Hung Wo and Elizabeth Lau Ching Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (70%), Human Services (8%), Health (5%).
- Who are Hung Wo and Elizabeth Lau Ching Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: 'Iolani School ($375k), Punahou School ($375k), Maryknoll Schools ($110k).
- Does Hung Wo and Elizabeth Lau Ching Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hung Wo and Elizabeth Lau Ching Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hung Wo and Elizabeth Lau Ching Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tradewind Group Foundation, J Watumull Fund, Aloha United Way Inc.
- Where is Hung Wo and Elizabeth Lau Ching Foundation based?
- Hung Wo and Elizabeth Lau Ching Foundation is based in HI.
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