· Private foundation
Kwan Charitable 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALOHA UNITED WAY | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $500 |
| MCGILL UNIVERSITY | $358 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $250 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY FUQUA ANNUAL FUND | $250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS | $200 |
| FOODBASKET | $200 |
| FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $200 |
| US FUND FOR UNICEF | $200 |
| METROCREST SERVICES | $100 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $50 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
17 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- QNQUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL4× · 2017–2020 · $2k · revenue +101%
- FWFORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2k · revenue +52%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF9× · 2017–2025 · $1k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- BCBRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $161
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.
To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
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…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
The mission of qmc is to fulfill the intent of queen emma and king kamehameha iv to provide, in perpetuity, quality healthcare services to improve the well-being of native hawaiians and all the people of hawaii.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
To develop educated, well-rounded individuals who are well prepared for college.
The mission of straub foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
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…
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 21 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.
- Who funds ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds QUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII ISLAND UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds METROCREST SERVICES ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kwan Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kwan Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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