· Private foundation
Nan Chul Shin Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Nan Chul Shin Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Brown University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Nan Chul Shin Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $214k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $84k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROTARY CLUB OF HONOLULU (ROTARY DISTRICT 5000 FOUNDATION) | $50,000 |
| IOLANI SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| WORLD ASSISTANCE FOR CAMBODIA | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,750 |
| ALOHA ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $10,000 |
| REHABILITATION HOSPITAL OF THE PACIFIC | $10,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII | $10,000 |
| IOLANI SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ADVANTAGE SPORTS ACADEMY LLC | $8,500 |
| IOLANI SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| YMCA OF HONOLULU | $5,000 |
| HAWAII RUSH SOCCER CLUB | $5,000 |
| MILILANI VOLLEYBALL CLUB | $3,500 |
| MILILANI VOLLEYBALL CLUB | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2019, 5 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- 'S'IOLANI SCHOOL6× · 2017–2022 · $312k · revenue +53%
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII2× · 2017–2018 · $70k · revenue +9%
- HRHAWAII RUSH SOCCER CLUB3× · 2017–2022 · $38k · revenue +156%
Funded once
- HBHONOLULU BULLS SOCCER CLUBone grant, 2017 · $20k
- KCKOREAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCEone grant, 2017 · $20k
- CUCHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULUgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +43%
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.
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…
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…
To provide exceptional learning opportunities in a diverse community honoring the traditions of hawaii. see schedule o.
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…
The mission of straub foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.
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…
Hawaii medical association is dedicated to serving physicians, their patients and community through representation, advocacy, and public service. core activities: advocacy, education
The hawai'i association of independent schools (hais) advocates on behalf of independent education in hawaii, provides services that strengthen individual schools and engages them to achieve educational quality and excellence for all…
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 The Pathway International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 42 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 'IOLANI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII RUSH SOCCER CLUB ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation ↗
- Who funds HO'OLA NA PUA ↗
- Who funds Aloha Animal Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds HONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific ↗
- Who funds ADVANTAGE SPORTS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KUKUI CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILILANI VOLLEYBALL CLUB ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds THE PATHWAY INTERNATIONAL ↗
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 · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Atherton Family Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · Mamoru & Aiko Takitani Foundation Inc · Castiglione A Casauria Foundation · McInerny Foundation-- · Kosasa Foundation · Atlas Insurance Agency 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 Nan Chul Shin 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.
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.