· Private foundation
Stanley & Elaine Mukai Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IOLANI SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| QUEENS HEALTH SYSTEM | $5,000 |
| MID PACIFIC INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| STRAUB MEDICAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| HARVARD LAW SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,165 |
| DAVIDSON COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| HAWAII HUMANE SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| PUNAHOU SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW | $1,000 |
| LESLEY UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| AMHERST COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| WILLIAMS COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| SKIF PEARL CITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| PALOLO HONGWANJI | $300 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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 SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $37k · revenue +46%
- PSPUNAHOU SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +40%
Davidson College4× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- MMITone grant, 2022 · $10k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HAWAIIone grant, 2023 · $6k
- HCHONOLULU COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
Hawaii pacific university is an international learning community set in the rich cultural context of hawaii. students from around the world join us for an american education built on a liberal arts foundation. our innovative undergraduate…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
To provide exceptional learning opportunities in a diverse community honoring the traditions of hawaii. see schedule o.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
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…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hanahauoli School and the most unlike its peers is Pwp Alumni Association. 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 61 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 11% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 45 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 PUNAHOU SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds THE QUEEN'S HEALTH SYSTEMS ↗
- Who funds MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LESLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PWP ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KAHALA NUI SENIOR LIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Aalii Mentoring ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation ↗
- Who funds HANAHAUOLI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds HARVARD MAGAZINE INC ↗
- Who funds BISHOP MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN ↗
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 · McInerny Foundation-- · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · Maurice and Joanna Sullivan Family Foundation · George N Wilcox General Trust · Tradewind Group Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Aloha United Way Inc · The Robert & Betty Wo Foundation · Mamoru & Aiko Takitani Foundation Inc · 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 Stanley & Elaine Mukai 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Lesley University — 1% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
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.
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