· Private foundation
James and Sally Zukerkorn 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Punahou School | $34,000 |
| Temple Emanu-El | $29,000 |
| University of Hawaii Foundation | $7,660 |
| American Committee for the Weizmann | $5,000 |
| Temple Beth Shalom | $3,150 |
| Team Prime Time | $2,500 |
| Camon Runyon Cancer Research Fnd | $1,706 |
| Make-A-Wish Hawaii | $1,200 |
| Rohr Chabad Center | $1,000 |
| Honolulu Museum of Art | $1,000 |
| Jewish Community Services of Hawaii | $1,000 |
| Ballet Hawaii | $550 |
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 (FY18–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
21 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 SCHOOL8× · 2018–2025 · $241k · revenue +41%
- SDSAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY4× · 2018–2021 · $125k · revenue +39%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $84k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- TUTOURO UNIVERSITY NEVADAgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue +40%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +14%
- CUCreighton Universitygraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +56%
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.
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…
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…
To provide exceptional learning opportunities in a diverse community honoring the traditions of hawaii. see schedule o.
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…
To foster international cultural awareness and understanding through the medium of film. to act as a creative pipeline for hawaii and the pacific, showcasing new and emerging talent from hawaii, asia, americas, europe, and the pacific…
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…
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.
To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…
To develop educated, well-rounded individuals who are well prepared for college.
The mission of the corporation shall be to work with partners to protect and restore native ecosystems and watersheds, to improve the quality and quantity of freshwater resources to perpetuate hawaiian cultural resources and practices, to…
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Hawaii and the most unlike its peers is Ocala Symphony Orchestra Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% 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 13% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 55 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 SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HAWAII SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TOURO UNIVERSITY NEVADA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds HAWAII AG AND CULINARY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds TEAM PRIME TIME INC ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HAWAII CULINARY EDUCATION FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds Rotary District 5000 Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds MANOA HERITAGE CENTER FKA MANOA VALLEY CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUND ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds PEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Ocala Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds Kapi'olani Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds FEEDING HAWAII TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF HAWAII ↗
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 · Tradewind Group Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Aloha United Way Inc · Atherton Family Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Mildred Tyson Foundation · Ac Kobayashi Family Foundation · Castiglione A Casauria Foundation · The Cades Foundation · The Strong 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 James and Sally Zukerkorn 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.
- Ocala Symphony Orchestra Inc — 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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