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K J Luke Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

K J Luke Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$57k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$696kHealth$206kArts & Culture$80kCommunity Improvement$15kPublic Benefit$12kReligion$10kPhilanthropy$10kCrime & Legal$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER$25,000
HARVARD COLLEGE$10,000
REHAB FOUNDATION$10,000
A BETTER CHINATOWN ASSOCIATION$5,000
SAINT LOUIS SCHOOL$3,000
THE DEPUTIES$2,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF HAWAII$1,000
TONG WO SOCIETY OF KOHALA$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HARVARD COLLEGE: $10k → 8%NATIONAL CACA COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT FUND: $10k → 10%TONG WO SOCIETY OF KOHALA: $1k → 15%HARVARD COLLEGE: $10k → 8%PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $200k → 9%HARVARD COLLEGE: $10k → 8%PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $200k → 9%HARVARD COLLEGE: $10k → 8%PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $100k → 9%HARVARD COLLEGE: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%HARVARD COLLEGE: $10k → 8%PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $100k → 9%UH FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%UH FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%REHAB FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%REHAB FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%REHAB FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%REHAB FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%REHAB FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%REHAB FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%REHAB FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%COMMUNITY CHURCH OF HONOLULU: $2k → 9%HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5k → 9%SAINT LOUIS SCHOOL: $3k → 9%SAINT LOUIS SCHOOL: $3k → 9%SAINT LOUIS SCHOOL: $3k → 9%SAINT LOUIS SCHOOL: $3k → 9%SAINT LOUIS SCHOOL: $3k → 9%SAINT LOUIS SCHOOL: $3k → 9%SAINT LOUIS SCHOOL: $3k → 9%A BETTER CHINATOWN ASSOCIATION: $5k → 9%THE DEPUTIES: $2k → 9%THE DEPUTIES 3462 ALA HINALO ST HONOLULU HI 96818: $2k → 9%THE DEPUTIES: $2k → 9%THE DEPUTIES: $2k → 9%THE DEPUTIES: $2k → 9%THE DEPUTIES: $2k → 9%THE DEPUTIES: $2k → 9%THE DEPUTIES 3462 ALA HINALO ST HONOLULU HI 96818: $2k → 9%CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER: $25k → 9%CHINESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER: $10k → 9%CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER: $10k → 9%CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER: $10k → 9%CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER: $10k → 9%CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 10 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$1.0M
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
-12%

Still filing today

60%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PS
    PUNAHOU SCHOOL
    4× · 2020–2023 · $600k · revenue +40%
  • RH
    Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation
    7× · 2017–2025 · $205k · revenue +38%
  • CD
    Childrens Discovery Center
    6× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHINESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -12%
  • NC
    NATIONAL CACA COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -19%
  • HS
    HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +26%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
2
Hawaii Maritime Center
—
3
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
4
Hawaii Education Institute
—
5
Hawaii Exemplary State Foundation
Community Improvement
6
Hiikua a Hiialo Cultural Foundation
Arts & Culture
7
Hawaiian Electric Industries Charitable Foundation
—
8
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
9
Na Kua Aina O Waimanalo
Arts & Culture
10
Kukuiolono Park Trust Estate
—
11
Lanikuhonua Cultural Institute
—
12
The Ohana Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chinese Chamber of Commerce Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Tong Wo Society of Kohala. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $600,000 · EducationPUNAHOU SCHOOL+1 more: $15,000 · EducationRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation: $205,000 · HealthRehabilitation Hospita…HARVARD COLLEGE: $60,000 · OtherHARVARD COLLE…SAINT LOUIS SCHOOL: $21,000 · OtherSAINT LOUIS S…THE DEPUTIES: $16,000 · OtherTHE DEPUTIESCHINESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherCHINESE CHAMB…TONG WO SOCIETY OF KOHALA: $7,000 · OtherTONG WO SOCIE…+3 more: $8,000 · Other+3 moreChildrens Discovery Center: $75,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CACA COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT FUND: $10,000 · PhilanthropyA BETTER CHINATOWN ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Community ImprovementPROJECT REACH INC: $500 · Community Improvement
Education$615,000Health$205,000Other$122,000Arts & Culture$80,000Philanthropy$10,000Community Improvement$5,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $600,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation: $205,000 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetChildrens Discovery Center: $75,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTHE DEPUTIES: $16,000 over 8y, 23% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CACA COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA BETTER CHINATOWN ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF HAWAII INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds PUNAHOU SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Childrens Discovery Center ↗
  • Who funds THE DEPUTIES ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHINESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CACA COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT FUND ↗
  • Who funds TONG WO SOCIETY OF KOHALA ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds A BETTER CHINATOWN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF HAWAII INC ↗

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.

Tradewind Group Found…J Watumull FundAtherton Family Found…Maurice and Joanna Su…Altres FoundationMcInerny Foundation--Aloha United Way IncAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Tradewind Group FoundationHI15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tradewind Group Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Atherton Family Foundation · Maurice and Joanna Sullivan Family Foundation · Altres Foundation · McInerny Foundation-- · Aloha United Way Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization K J Luke Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from K J Luke Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to K J Luke Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to K J Luke Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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