· Private foundation
John Chin Young Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $127k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UH FOUNDATION | $127,474 |
| HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ARTS | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| HAWAII OPERA THEATER | $30,000 |
| BISHOP MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| DIAMOND HEAD THEATRE | $20,000 |
| HONOLULU PRINTMAKERS | $1,500 |
| HAWAII CRAFTSMAN | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $849k · revenue +132%
- HMHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART5× · 2020–2024 · $160k · revenue +1%
- BMBISHOP MUSEUM6× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- JYJOHN YOUNG ENDOWMENT AT UH5× · 2020–2024 · $29k
- UTUH THEATRE & DANCE4× · 2020–2023 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2024–2025 · $3k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Unlocking creativity through exceptional visual arts education and enhancing this endeavor through preservation of the historic kaluanui estate.
Our mission is to encourage and promote excellence in handweaving by bringing together weavers, spinners, dyers, fiber artists, and educators who share the joy and passion of the fiber arts.
In 1972, kumu hula george lanakilakekiahiali`i na`ope and kahu wendell silva created our organization to preserve hawaiian culture through dance. from that idea they formed the kalihi-palama culture & arts society, inc. (kpcas) to provide…
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…
Scholarships and awards are granted to the hualalai community employees, their spouses, and their children. medical awards cover expenses incurred beyond medical insurance, and educational scholarships are for preschool through college,…
Hawaii medical association is dedicated to serving physicians, their patients and community through representation, advocacy, and public service. core activities: advocacy, education
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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: Cooke Foundation Limited · Atherton Family Foundation · McInerny Foundation-- · Kosasa Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John Chin Young Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John Chin Young Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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