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Larry and Beatrice Ching Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$57k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Arts & Culture$134kEducation$83kScience & Tech$25kHealth$9kFood & Nutrition$7kHuman Services$5kInternational$3kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k33 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$300
Median grant
2
States reached
$864k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAWAII HERITAGE CENTER$25,000
HELEMANO PLANTATION (ORI ANUENUE HALE)$9,000
AGC EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATION$5,000
HONGWANJI MISSION SCHOOL$4,000
PUNAHOU SCHOOL FOUNDATION$2,600
BISHOP MUSEUM$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION - MEDICAL SCHOOL$1,000
GCA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$500
KALIHI KAI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$500
HAWAII FOODBANK$500
US CHINA PEOPLES FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION$500
HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY$500
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION - COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING$500
HAWAII HISTORIC ARMS ASSOCIATION$500
HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART$350
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%PALOLO CHINESE HOME: $500 → 9%PALOLO CHINESE HOME: $500 → 9%PALOLO CHINESE HOME: $500 → 9%PALOLO CHINESE HOME: $300 → 9%PALOLO CHINESE HOME: $200 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$271k · 33 repeat orgs$1k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
1

Total granted

$271k
$500

Still filing today

52%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $800 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • HH
    HAWAII HERITAGE CENTER
    5× · 2021–2025 · $122k · revenue +52% · 61% of their budget
  • AE
    AGC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +23%
  • HF
    HAWAII FOODBANK INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION - SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
    one grant, 2021 · $500

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Hawaii Medical Association

Hawaii medical association is dedicated to serving physicians, their patients and community through representation, advocacy, and public service. core activities: advocacy, education

2
Kapi'olani Medical Specialists

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…

Health
3
Kaua'i Medical Clinic

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…

Health
4
Hawaii Maritime Center
5
Healthcare Association of Hawaii

The mission of the healthcare association of hawaii is to be hawaii's most effective advocate for the comprehensive and financially strong healthcare system that successfully responds to the diverse and changing needs of all we serve.

6
Kapi'olani Health Foundation

The mission of kapi'olani health foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.

Health
7
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
8
Hawaii - American Nurses Association Foundation
Environment
9
Hawaii Education Institute
10
Hawaiian Historical Society

The society is dedicated to preserving historical materials relating to hawaii, and to publishing scholarly research on hawaiian history so present and future peoples throughout the world will recognize and appreciate the history. the…

Arts & Culture
11
Hawaii State Teachers Association

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.

12
Pacific Health Research & Education Institute

See schedule ophrei conducts health research and education that improves the health and well-being of veterans and all people in hawaii, central california, the pacific region, and throughout the u.s. driven by the values of excellence and…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Gca Education Foundation. 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

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 37 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HAWAII HERITAGE CENTER — $122,250 · Arts & CultureHAWAII HERITAGE CENTERBISHOP MUSEUM — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $5,250 · Arts & CultureHELEMANO PLANTATION (ORI ANUENUE HALE) — $38,100 · OtherHELEMANO PLANTATION (ORI ANUENUE HALE)AGC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · OtherAGC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCHONGWANJI MISSION SCHOOL — $14,700 · OtherHONGWANJI MISSION SCHOOLPUNAHOU SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $12,050 · OtherPUNAHOU SCHOOL FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION - MEDICAL SCHOOL — $5,000 · Other+21 more — $30,700 · Other+21 moreHAWAII FOODBANK INC — $6,500 · Food & NutritionRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation — $2,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC — $1,200 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,000 · HealthHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,100 · PhilanthropyPALOLO CHINESE HOME — $2,000 · Human ServicesHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY — $1,900 · Education
Arts & Culture$132,500Other$125,550Food & Nutrition$6,500Health$4,200Philanthropy$2,100Human Services$2,000Education$1,900

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHAWAII HERITAGE CENTER — $122,250 over 5y, 61% of budgetAGC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC — $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBISHOP MUSEUM — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGCA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHAWAII HISTORIC ARMS ASSOCIATION — $3,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPALOLO CHINESE HOME — $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation — $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY — $1,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART — $1,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO — $1,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC — $1,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKUAKINI FOUNDATION — $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPALAMA SETTLEMENT — $1,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE — $1,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $1,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budget
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 HAWAII HERITAGE CENTER
  • Who funds AGC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC
  • Who funds BISHOP MUSEUM
  • Who funds GCA EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HAWAII HISTORIC ARMS ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PALOLO CHINESE HOME
  • Who funds Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation
  • Who funds HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART
  • Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO
  • Who funds IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC
  • Who funds KUAKINI FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PALAMA SETTLEMENT
  • Who funds MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC

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.

First Hawaiian Bank FoundationHI19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · J Watumull Fund · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Aloha United Way Inc · Atherton Family Foundation · Atlas Insurance Agency Foundation · The Kenneth and Diane Matsuura Foundation · Kosasa Foundation · Hung Wo and Elizabeth Lau Ching Foundation · The Michael B Wood Foundation · Chung Kun Ai 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 Larry and Beatrice Ching 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%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 · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Larry and Beatrice Ching Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Larry and Beatrice Ching 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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